Tangir District

Tangir District (Urdu: ضلع تانگیر) is a district in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan. It lies 67 km from Chilas.^[2][3] Its population lives mainly in the valley of the Tangir River, a right tributary of the Indus River.^[4]

Tangir District ضلع تانگیر
District of Gilgit-Baltistan
District map of Gilgit-Baltistan[b]
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
Area (per UNOSAT)[1]
• Total	1,106 km2 (427 sq mi)
Population  (2023, per UNOSAT[1])
• Total	31,257
• Density	28/km2 (73/sq mi)
Languages
• Official language	Urdu
Number of tehsils	1

History

Prior to 2019, the Tangir District was a tehsil of the Diamer District, along with Darel and Chilas.

Geography

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

1. On the map, the Tangir District is incorrectly shown as Darel and vice versa.
2. On the map, the Tangir District is incorrectly shown as Darel and vice versa.