Darel District


Darel District is a district of Pakistan's Gilgit-Baltistan area in the disputed Kashmir region. It lies south-west of Gilgit District. It is one of the 14 districts of Gilgit−Baltistan. Its population lives mainly in the valley of the Darel River, a right tributary of the Indus River.
Prior to 2019, Darel District was a tehsil of the Diamer District, along with Tangir and Chilas.

Geography

Darel District is bounded on the north by the Ghizer District, on the north-east by Gilgit District, on the southeast by Diamer District, and on the south and west by the Upper Kohistan District of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province.