Upper Dir District
Dir is a region in northwestern Pakistan in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, in the foothills of the Himalayas. It became a princely state in 1897 under the British Raj a status it retained following the independence of Pakistan in 1947, until 1969 when it was abolished by a presidential declaration, and Dir District was created the following year.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: AleemulhaqLajbouk, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: district of Pakistan with 1,080,000 residents
- Description: former district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
- Also known as: “Dir”, “Dir District”, and “Upper Dir”
Upper Dir District
- Category: former administrative territorial entity
- Location: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, South Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Upper Dir District” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ناحية دير”
- Bengali: “দির জেলা”
- Catalan: “districte de Dir”
- Catalan: “Districte de Dir”
- Cebuano: “Upper Dīr District”
- Malayalam: “ഡിർ ജില്ല”
- Persian: “ناحیه دیر”
- Tajik: “Ноҳияи Дир”
- Urdu: “دیر”
- Welsh: “Dir”
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