Darel District
ضلع داریل | |
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District of Gilgit-Baltistan administered by Pakistan[1] | |
Coordinates: 35°33′40″N 73°35′38″E / 35.561°N 73.594°E | |
Administering country | Pakistan |
Territory | Gilgit-Baltistan |
Division | Diamer Division |
Headquarters | Darel |
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 |
Darel District (Urdu: ضلع داریل) is a district of Pakistan's Gilgit-Baltistan area in the disputed Kashmir region.[1] It is lies south-west of Gilgit District.[2] Its population lives mainly in the valley of the Darel River, a right tributary of the Indus River.[3]
Prior to 2019, the Darel District was a tehsil of the Diamer District, along with Tangir and Chilas.
The Darel District is bounded on the north by the Ghizer District, on the north-east by the Gilgit District, on the east and southeast by the Diamer District, and on the south and west by the Upper Kohistan District of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province,