The Tangir District (Urdu: ضلع تانگیر) is a district in Gilgit-Baltistan territory of Pakistan. It is located at a distance of 67 km from Chilas.[1][2] Its population lives mainly in the valley of the Tangir River, a right tributary of the Indus River.[3]

Tangir District ضلع تانگیر
District of Gilgit-Baltistan
District map of Gilgit-Baltistan[lower-alpha 2]
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
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. The government of Pakistan announced the district carved out of Diamer district of Gilgit-Baltistan.

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,

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