Tangir District

The Tangir District (Urdu: ضلع تانگیر) is a district in Gilgit-Baltistan territory of Pakistan. It is located at a distance of 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 of Gilgit-Baltistan
District map of Gilgit-Baltistan
District map of Gilgit-Baltistan[lower-alpha 2]
Country Pakistan
Territory Gilgit-Baltistan
DivisionDiamer Division
HeadquartersTangir
Government
 • TypeDistrict Administration
 • Deputy CommissionerN/A
 • District Police OfficerN/A
 • District Health OfficerN/A
Languages
 • Official languageUrdu
Number of tehsils1

History

Prior to 2019, the Tangir District was a tehsil of the Diamer District, along with Darel and Chilas. The government of Pakistan announced the district carved out of Diamer district of Gilgit-Baltistan.

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
  1. On the map, the Tangir District is incorrectly shown as Darel and vice versa.
  2. On the map, the Tangir District is incorrectly shown as Darel and vice versa.

References
  1. "GB notifies four more districts, total number of districts now 14". pakistantoday.com.
  2. "Administrative Reforms: Gilgit-Baltistan govt issues notification of four new districts". pamirtimes.net.
  3. Tangir River, OpenStreetMap, retrieved 22 January 2022.
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