Chitral District

Chitral District
ݯھیترارو ضلع
ضلع چترال
District of Pakistan
1947–2018

Map of the former district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
CapitalChitral City
DemonymChitralis
Area 
• 1947–2018
14,850 km2 (5,730 sq mi)
 • TypeDistrict Government
History 
• Established
14 August 1947
• Establishment of Lower and Upper Chitral
20 July 2018
Political subdivisions6 Tehsils
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Chitral State
Lower Chitral
Upper Chitral
Today part ofPakistan
 · Lower Chitral & Upper Chitral Districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Chitral District (Khowar: ݯھیترارو ضلع; Urdu: ضلع چترال) was a district in the Malakand Division of the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, from 14 August 1947 to 2018. It was the largest district in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, covering an area of 14,850 km2, before splitting into Upper and Lower Chitral Districts in 2018.[1] It was the northernmost district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.[2] It shared a border with Gilgit-Baltistan to the east and with Swat and Dir districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to the south. It also shared an international border with Afghanistan to the north and west.[3] Afghanistan's narrow strip of Wakhan Corridor separated Chitral from Tajikistan in the north.[4]

  1. ^ "Upper Chitral gets status of separate district". Dawn newspaper. 21 November 2018. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
  2. ^ "District Government Chitral". Chitral District Government Web Portl. Archived from the original on 28 September 2015.
  3. ^ "Governance and Militancy in Afghanistan and Pakistan". Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
  4. ^ Nusser, Marcus; Dickoré, Wolf Bernhard (2002). "A Tangle in the Triangle: Vegetation Map of the Eastern Hindukush (Chitral, Northern Pakistan)" (PDF). Erdkunde. 56 (1): 37–59. doi:10.3112/erdkunde.2002.01.03. JSTOR 23218603.

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