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[a]](/wiki/File:Gilgit-Baltistan_map_with_tehsils_labelled.png) District map of Gilgit-Baltistan[a] | |
| 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 edit
Prior to 2019, the Tangir District was a tehsil of the Diamer District, along with Darel and Chilas.
Geography edit
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 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.