Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 lies at the foothills of the Himalayas mountain range of an altitude of 648 metres or 2,126 feet above sea level and is linked with the main Peshawar-Lahore Grand Trunk Road at Dina Tehsil. It is the headquarters of Mirpur District, which has two subdivisions: Mirpur and Dudial. [13]
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
Azad Kashmir: Number: 10 (as of as of 2021) Populations: 152,124 (Haveli District) – 650,370 (Muzaffarabad District) Areas: 569 square kilometres (220 sq mi) (Sudhnati District) – 3,621 square kilometres (1,398 sq mi) (Neelum District) Government
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.
Islamgarh (Urdu: اسلام گڑھ ) is a tehsil and Municipal Committee of Mirpur District near Mangla Dam of Azad Jammu and Kashmir. It is located on the southern part of the Pir Panjal Range, about 28 Kilometer in North-East of Mirpur. It had a population of 175,651 in 2023. [1]
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]