Tangir District
ضلع تانگیر
District of Gilgit-Baltistan
District map of Gilgit-Baltistan[a]
District map of Gilgit-Baltistan[a]
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

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]

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.

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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