Upper Chitral District

Upper Chitral District ضلع چترال بالا توری ݯھیترارو ضلع‎ پورتنۍ چترال ولسوالۍ‎
District
Top: Karambar Lake Qaqlasht Meadows above Buni
Location in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Country	Pakistan
Province	Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Division	Malakand
Established	2018
Headquarters	Buni
Government
• Type	District Administration
• Deputy Commissioner	Mr. Muhammad Irfan Uddin PMS (BPS-18)[1]
• District Police Officer	Shah Jahan (BPS-18 PSP)
• District Health Officer	N/A
Area
• Total	8,392 km2 (3,240 sq mi)
Population  (2023)[2]
• Total	195,528
• Density	23/km2 (60/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+5 (PST)
Numbers of Tehsils	2
Website	upperchitral.kp.gov.pk

Upper Chitral District (Urdu: ضلع چترال بالا‎)(Khowar: توری ݯھیترارو ضلع‎)(Pashto: پورتنۍ چترال ولسوالۍ‎) is a district in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Chitral River flows across the length of the district. Upper Chitral District along with Lower Chitral District were part of the erstwhile Chitral District which was the largest district in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, covering an area of 14,850 km². Previously, it served as the Chitral princely state that encompassed the region until its incorporation into the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan in 14 August 1947.^[3] The erstwhile Chitral District was bifurcated into Upper Chitral District and Lower Chitral District in November, 2018.^[4]

The town of Buni is the headquarters of the Chitral Upper District.^{[citation needed]} It shares a border with Gilgit-Baltistan to the east, with Badakshan province of Afghanistan to the north and with the Upper Dir District to the southwest and with Swat District to the southeast. A narrow strip of Wakhan Corridor separates Chitral from Tajikistan in the north.