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Mirpur District (Urdu: ضلع میرپور) is a district of Pakistan-administered Azad Jammu and Kashmir region. [1] It is one of the 10 districts of Pakistan 's territory of Azad Kashmir. [ 3 ]
Mirpur (Potwari: مرپر [mɪɾˈpəɾᵊ]; Urdu: ميرپور [miːɾˈpuːɾ]), officially known as New Mirpur City (Urdu: نیا میرپر شہر, romanized: nayā mīrpur shèher), is the capital of Mirpur district located in Pakistani-administered Azad Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region. [1]
Kashmir Division: Kashmir South and Kashmir North ; 13 per cent of the Muzaffarabad district. [5] Ladakh Division: Kargil and Leh districts. (Became the union territory of Ladakh on 31 October 2019.) The districts were reorganised by 1968, breaking up some of the larger districts. [6]
Tehsil Area (km 2) . Population (2017) Density (people/km2) (2017) Literacy Rate (2017) District Division Kotli Tehsil: Kotli District: Mirpur Division
The southern districts of Azad Kashmir, which consist of the Bhimber, Kotli, and Mirpur districts have extremely hot weather in the summer and moderately cold weather in the winter. Azad Kashmir receives rainfall in both the winter and summer seasons, with Muzaffarabad being among the wettest areas of Azad Kashmir.
AJK Tourism and Archaeology Department is a department of Azad Jammu and Kashmir Government in Pakistan. The main aim of this department is to promote travel and tourism in Azad Kashmir . [ 1 ] The department provides information and accommodation facilities to tourists in different places in state.
The area of the present Mirpur Division was a part of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir during the British Raj and after the partition of India. After the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947, it became part of what is now Azad Kashmir. The Mirpur Division was the location of the Mirpur Massacre in November 1947. [1] [2]
During British rule, Mirpur was part of the Princely state of Kashmir and Jammu.At this time Mirpur was a tehsil of Bhimber District (then part of Jammu province) [1] During this time the idea of irrigating the lower part of Mirpur Tehsil (the Khari ilaka) from the Jhelum River had been considered.