<b>This map shows the percentage of people in each district of Pakistan who spoke Urdu as their mother tongue at the time of the 1998 census.</b>
<p>The templates used to make this map can be found <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Abbasi786786%27s_maps_of_the_districts_in_Pakistan_(National)" title="Category:Abbasi786786's maps of the districts in Pakistan (National)"><b>here</b></a>.
</p><p>The source for the data used in the creation of this file can be found <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170107124045/http://www.census.gov/population/international/data/mapping/demobase.html"><b>here</b></a> (must be accessed through Google Earth or another application which opens .SHP files). All the data is adjusted for 2020 district borders.
</p><p>The image was created with Gimp and a calculator.
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</p><p>Urdu is a Central Indo-Aryan language that is the official national language of Pakistan and is one of India's many constitutionally recognized official languages. It is spoken by approximately 70 million people worldwide natively. <b>Urdu is Pakistan's lingua franca, and while only 7% of Pakistanis speak Urdu natively, most Pakistanis understand Urdu and speak it as a second language.</b>
</p><p><b>In 1998, Urdu was spoken by 7.57% of Pakistanis as a first language (10.02 million).</b> 21% of the population of Sindh, 10% of the population of Islamabad, 4.5% of the population of Punjab, 0.97% of the population of Balochistan, and 0.69% of the population of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa spoke Urdu natively in 1998.
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<b>By 2017, the share of Pakistanis claiming Urdu as their mother tongue had fallen to 7.08% (14.71 million).</b> 18% of the population of Sindh, 12% of the population of Islamabad, 4.9% of the population of Punjab, 0.84% of the population of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and 0.81% of the population of Balochistan spoke Urdu natively in 2017.
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