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Azad Kashmir is a dependent territory of Pakistan. It has 10 first-order administrative divisions called "districts," and each district is divided into tehsils . Geographically, the northern districts of Azad Kashmir encompass the lower part of the Himalayas .
Azad Jammu and Kashmir (Urdu: آزاد جموں و کشمیر, romanized: Āzād Jammū̃ o Kaśmīr ⓘ, lit. 'Free Jammu and Kashmir'), [6] abbreviated as AJK and colloquially referred to as simply Azad Kashmir (/ ˌ ɑː z æ d k æ ʃ ˈ m ɪər / AH-zad kash-MEER), [7] is a region administered by Pakistan as a nominally self-governing entity [8] and constituting the western portion of the ...
This is a list showing the most populous cities in the self-administrative territory of Azad Kashmir, Pakistan as of the 2017 Census of Pakistan.In the following table, you can find all cities and towns in the province as of March 15, 2017.
Muzaffarabad (/ ˌ m ʊ z ə ˌ f æ r ə ˈ b æ d /; [5] Urdu: مُظَفَّر آباد, IPA: [mʊzəffərɑːbɑːd]) is a city in Pakistani-administered Azad Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region. [1] It is the largest city and the capital of Azad Kashmir, which is a Pakistani-administered administrative territory.
The city of Mirpur itself was founded in around 1640 AD or 1050 AH by the local Ghakhar chief Miran Shah Ghazi during Mughal rule.The Imperial Gazetteer of India Provincial Series Kashmir and Jammu (1909) reports that "it is said to have been founded by Miran Shah Ghazi and Sultan Fateh Khan."
On Saturday, 8 October 2005 [11] a 7.6 magnitude earthquake killed 73,338 people and left up to three million homeless in Pakistan, including Azad Kashmir. The city of Rawalakot, the capital of the Poonch district, suffered significant damage from the 2005 earthquake; although most of the buildings were left standing, many of them were rendered uninhabitable, and some of the population was ...
The following is a list of all of the tehsils of Azad Kashmir. Table. Tehsil Area (km 2) Population (2017) Density (people/km2) (2017) Literacy Rate (2017)
The Poonch District is part of the greater Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan. The district headquarters is the city of Rawalakot. It is the third most populous district of Azad Kashmir. [4] [5] The main language is Pahari, native to an estimated 95% of the population, but there are also speakers of Gujari, [6] while Urdu has official ...