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 | |
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![]() District map of Gilgit-Baltistan[a] | |
Country | ![]() |
Territory | ![]() |
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
editPrior to 2019, the Tangir District was a tehsil of the Diamer District, along with Darel and Chilas.
Geography
editThe 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
edit- ^ On the map, the Tangir District is incorrectly shown as Darel and vice versa.
References
edit- ^ "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.