Kech District (Balochi: öÃÂù éÃÂÃÂ) 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 1994âÂÂ1995.
On 24 February 2026, The Tump tehsil upgraded to district status after the bifurcation of Kech district.
The district of Kech is administratively subdivided into the following tehsils, each of which contains several villages:
As of the 2023 census, Kech district has 253,475 households and a population of 1,060,931. The district has a sex ratio of 109.82 males to 100 females and a literacy rate of 49.65%: 55.23% for males and 43.46% for females. 328,574 (30.97% of the surveyed population) are under 10 years of age. 386,646 (36.44%) live in urban areas.
Balochi was the predominant language, spoken by 98.9% of the population, with very small minorities of Urdu, Kashmiri, and Brahui, and speakers.
In the 2023 census, 0.41% (4,331) of the population was from religious minorities, mainly Christians.