The area of the division is split rather evenly across both districts, with Mardan District taking up 51.4% of the area of the division (1,632 km 2 (630 sq mi)), and Swabi District takes up the remaining 1,543 km 2 (596 sq mi). Mardan Division has a total area of 3,175 km 2 (1,226 sq mi). In August 2000, the division was abolished along with every other division in the country, but was reinstated (with all the other divisions of Pakistan) eight years later after the elections of 2008. The area received full-fledged division status between the Pakistani censuses of 19, and during the same time period, Swabi Tehsil was also upgraded, to district status (becoming Swabi District). After the One Unit policy ended in 1970 and the provinces returned with their original forms, the divisions that had been created as a result of the policy stayed in the North-West Frontier Province, which meant Mardan District stayed in Peshawar Division. This setup continued until One Unit, a geopolitical policy that abolished the provinces making up West Pakistan and consolidated West Pakistan into one province. It consisted of two tehsils, Mardan Tehsil and Swabi Tehsil, which would later become the two districts that make up Mardan Division today. The newly demarcated area was a Trans-Indus district called Mardan District. The area which covers Mardan Division today was carved out of Peshawar District between the 19 censuses of British India. Main article: History of the Districts and Divisions of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
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