Tangir District
Tangir District (Urdu: ضلع تانگیر) is a district in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan. It lies 67 km from Chilas.[1][2] Its population lives mainly in the valley of the Tangir River, a right tributary of the Indus River.[3]
Tangir District
ضلع تانگیر | |
|---|---|
District map of Gilgit-Baltistan[lower-alpha 2] | |
| Country | Pakistan |
| Territory | Gilgit-Baltistan |
| Division | Diamer Division |
| Headquarters | Tangir |
| Government | |
| • Type | District Administration |
| • Deputy Commissioner | N/A |
| • District Police Officer | N/A |
| • District Health Officer | N/A |
| Languages | |
| • Official language | Urdu |
| Number of tehsils | 1 |
History
Prior to 2019, the Tangir District was a tehsil of the Diamer District, along with Darel and Chilas.
Geography
The Tangir District is bounded on the north by the Gupis-Yasin District, on the north-east by the Ghizer District, on the east by the Darel District, and on the south and west by the Upper Kohistan District of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province,
Notes
- On the map, the Tangir District is incorrectly shown as Darel and vice versa.
- On the map, the Tangir District is incorrectly shown as Darel and vice versa.
References
- "GB notifies four more districts, total number of districts now 14". pakistantoday.com.
- "Administrative Reforms: Gilgit-Baltistan govt issues notification of four new districts". pamirtimes.net.
- Tangir River, OpenStreetMap, retrieved 22 January 2022.
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