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Dir is a region in northwestern Pakistan in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, in the foothills of the Himalayas.Before the independence of Pakistan, Dir was a princely state, and it remained so until 1969 when it was abolished by a presidential declaration, [1] and the Dir District was created the following year.
As of the 2023 census, Upper Dir district has 149,536 households and a population of 1,083,566.The district has a sex ratio of 98.36 males to 100 females and a literacy rate of 46.77%: 62.76% for males and 31.67% for females. 392,214 (36.24% of the surveyed population) are under 10 years of age. 47,842 (4.42%) live in urban areas.
Central Dir District is a district in the Malakand Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. On 23 January 2022, the Provincial Government carved out a new district Central Dir from the Upper Dir district territory. The area is largely composed of Malizai clan of Yousafzai.
Districts have formed an integral part of civil administration in the subcontinent since colonial times. When the North-West Frontier Province (the former name of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) formed in November 1901, it was divided into five "settled districts": Bannu, Dera Ismail Khan, Hazara, Kohat, and Peshawar, and a "trans-border tract" of land which encompassed five "Political Agencies": Khyber ...
Lal Qila (Pashto/Urdu: لعل قلعه) is a town and a union council of Lower Dir District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. it lies in Dir, K.P.K., Pakistan and its geographical coordinates are 34°57′10″N 71°48′41E". Lower Dir District has 37 union councils with a population of 797,852, according to the 1998 census report.
Lower Dir District (Pashto: ښکته دير ولسوالۍ, Urdu: ضلع دیر زیریں) is a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. [2] Timergara is the district's headquarters and largest city. [2] The Lower Dir district was formed in 1996, when Dir District was divided into Upper Dir and Lower Dir districts. [2]
Dir (Urdu, Pashto: دیر) is a city in the Upper Dir District of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is sometimes known as Dir Khas (Proper Dir) to distinguish it from the district's name, Dir (Upper and Lower). [citation needed] It lies along the Dir River, a tributary of the Panjkora River. [1]
Lower Dir District (2 C, 56 P) U. Upper Dir District (2 C, 41 P) Pages in category "Dir District" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.