Kech District (Urdu: ضلع کیچ) is a district in the Balochistan province of Pakistan. This district's old name was Turbat District which was changed to its even older name Kech District in 1994-1995.[2]
The district of Kech is administratively subdivided into the following tehsils, each of which contains several villages:[3][4]
At the time of the 2017 census, the district had 137,052 households and a population of 909,116. Kech had a sex ratio of 840 females per 1000 males and a literacy rate of 62.66% - 68.17% for males and 56.17% for females. 33.29% of the population lived in urban areas. 28.56% of the population was under 10 years of age. 0.19% (1,710) of the population were from religious minorities, mainly Hindus. Balochi was the predominant language, spoken by 97.57% of the population, with small minorities of Brahui, Sindhi and Kashmiri speakers.[1]
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