[1] It is subdivided into 15 Union Councils, 8 of which comprise the capital Jacobabad[2] During British rule, the taluka was part of the Upper Sind Frontier District of the Bombay Presidency - the Imperial Gazetteer of India describes the taluka as follows:[3] lying between 27° 56' and 28° 26' N. and 67° 59' and 68° 37' E., with an area of 460 square miles.

It contains one town, JACOBĀBĀD (population, 10,787), headquarters of the District and tāluka; and 85 villages.

This is the most thickly populated tāluka in the District, the density being 141 persons per square mile.

The land revenue and cesses in 1903-4 amounted to nearly 350,000.

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