Tangir District

Tangir District is a district in the Pakistani-administered territory of Gilgit-Baltistan in the disputed Kashmir region. It lies 67 km from Chilas. Its population lives mainly in the valley of the Tangir River, a right tributary of the Indus River.

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.