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Khairpur (khīr´poor) is a city in the Sindh province in southeast Pakistan. In 1981, its population was 61,447. Khairpur trades in wheat, cotton, tobacco, and dates and is linked by road and rail to Karachi. Manufactures include textiles, carpets, refined sugar, and leather goods.

The city was the capital of the former princely state of Khairpur, which was founded in 1783 and merged into Pakistan in 1955. It is a cultural center with fine historic buildings, notably the Faiz Palace, Kotdiji Fort, and Shah Abdul Latif University.near the khairpur there is fort of kot diji (written by ilyas siddiqi) b

Khairpur District is located in the Northern Sindh and bounded on the north by Shikarpur and Sukkur on the east by India. on the south by Sanghar and Nawabshah and on the west by Larkana and drives its name from the town the total are of the district is 15910 square kilomeres. At the time of independence.Khairpur was one of the states of Pakistan governed by Mirs, assisted by a Council of Ministers. Population

It is 1.515 million as per 1998 census as compared to 0.981 million in 1981 The average annual growth rate of the population in 2.71%.As per definition of Board of Revenue Sindh, Place of human habitation having at least ten house are called settlement.There are 1709 rural settlements in the district having population of 200 to 1000+souls.