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Azad Jammu and Kashmir or, for short, Azad Kashmir, is part of the -controlled portion of Kashmir, lying west of Indian-controlled .
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is the capital of Azad Kashmir in . It is located on the banks of the Jhelum and Neelum rivers. The district is bounded by North-West Frontier Province in the west, by the Kupwara and Baramulla districts of on the Indian side of the Line of Control in the east, and the Neelum District of Azad Kashmir in the north.

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is a city of 125,000 people in . is known for its grand buildings and large bungalows, primarily funded through its expatriate community. Most of the surrounding area remains agricultural.

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City is the chief town and district headquarters of , in Azad Kashmir, . The town is situated on the confluence of two nullahs, Malwani and Mahl at a distance of 93 km from .

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is the capital of in –administered Azad Kashmir, in the disputed region. It is located in the .

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Sharda, also known as Shardi, is a small Tehsil in Neelam District in Azad Kashmir, . It is one of the two tehsils of Neelum district, and is located on the banks of the at an altitude of 1,981 metres.

is a tehsil in , located in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, . It is home to roughly 84 villages.

is a tehsil and Municipal Committee of near of Azad Jammu and Kashmir. It is located on the southern part of the , about 28 Kilometer in North-East of . It had a population of 175,651 in 2023.

Azad Kashmir

Latitude of center
33.8441° or 33° 50′ 39″ north
Longitude of center
73.7966° or 73° 47′ 48″ east
Population
4,570,000
Elevation
2,293 metres (7,523 feet)
Abbreviation
“AJK”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316441063
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1184196
Wiki­data ID
Q200130
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Azad Kashmir” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “آزاد كشمير”
  • Armenian: “Ազադ Քաշմիր”
  • Azerbaijani: “Azad Camnu və Kəşmir”
  • Azerbaijani: “Azad Kəşmir”
  • Balinese: “Azad Kashmir”
  • Bashkir: “Азад Кашмир”
  • Bashkir: “Азат Джамму һәм Кашмир”
  • Bashkir: “Азат Кәшмир”
  • Basque: “Azad Kaxmir”
  • Belarusian: “Азад Кашмір”
  • Belarusian: “Правінцыя Азад Кашмір”
  • Belarusian: “Свабодны Кашмір”
  • Bengali: “আজাদ কাশ্মীর”
  • Bengali: “পাক অধিকৃত কাশ্মীর”
  • Bengali: “পাকিস্তান অধিকৃত কাশ্মীর”
  • Bhojpuri: “आज़ाद कश्मीर”
  • Bhojpuri: “आजाद काश्मीर”
  • Bhojpuri: “आज़ाद काश्मीर”
  • Bishnupriya: “মিরপুর”
  • Breton: “Azad Kachmir”
  • Bulgarian: “Азад Кашмир”
  • Catalan: “Azad Kashmir”
  • Cebuano: “Azad Kashmir”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئازاد کەشمیر”
  • Chechen: “Азад Кашмир”
  • Chinese: “Azad Kashmir”
  • Chinese: “自由克什米尔”
  • Chinese: “自由克什米爾”
  • Chinese: “自由喀什米爾”
  • Chinese: “自由查谟和克什米尔”
  • Chinese: “阿扎德克什米尔”
  • Chinese: “阿扎德克什米爾”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Azad Keşmir”
  • Croatian: “Azad Kašmir”
  • Czech: “Azad Kashmir”
  • Czech: “Azad Kašmír”
  • Czech: “Azád Kašmír”
  • Czech: “Ázád Kašmír”
  • Czech: “Svobodný Kašmír”
  • Danish: “Azad Kashmir”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Azad Keşmir”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Keşmiro Azad”
  • Dutch: “Azad Kasjmir”
  • Esperanto: “Azad Kaŝmiro”
  • Esperanto: “Azad-Kaŝmiro”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Azad Kashmir”
  • Finnish: “Azad Kashmir”
  • French: “Azad Cachemire”
  • French: “Azad Kashmir”
  • French: “Cachemire libre”
  • Georgian: “აზად-ქაშმირი”
  • German: “Asad Jammu und Kaschmir”
  • German: “Asad Kaschmir”
  • German: “Azad jammu o kashmir”
  • German: “Azad Kaschmir”
  • German: “Azad Kashmir”
  • German: “PK-JK”
  • Greek: “Αζάντ Κασμίρ”
  • Gujarati: “આઝાદ કાશ્મીર”
  • Hebrew: “אזאד קשמיר”
  • Hindi: “आजाद कश्मीर”
  • Hindi: “आज़ाद कश्मीर”
  • Hindi: “आज़ाद जम्मू और कश्मीर”
  • Hungarian: “Aszad Kasmír”
  • Indonesian: “Azad Kashmir”
  • Italian: “Azad Jammu e Kashmir”
  • Italian: “Azad Jammu-e Kashmir”
  • Italian: “Azad Kashmir”
  • Japanese: “AJK”
  • Japanese: “アーザード・カシミール”
  • Japanese: “アザド・カシミール”
  • Kannada: “ಆಜಾದ್ ಕಾಶ್ಮೀರ”
  • Kannada: “ಪಾಕ್ ಆಕ್ರಮಿತ ಕಾಶ್ಮೀರ”
  • Kashmiri: “آزاد کٔشیٖر”
  • Kashmiri: “آزاد کٔشِیر”
  • Kirghiz: “Азад Кашмир”
  • Korean: “아자드 잠무 카슈미르 주”
  • Korean: “아자드 잠무 카슈미르”
  • Korean: “아자드 카슈미르 주”
  • Korean: “아자드 카슈미르”
  • Korean: “아자드카슈미르 주”
  • Korean: “아자드카슈미르”
  • Latin: “Casmiria Libera”
  • Latvian: “Azadkašmīra”
  • Lithuanian: “Laisvasis Kašmyras”
  • Luxembourgish: “Asad Jammu a Kaschmir”
  • Luxembourgish: “Asad Kaschmir”
  • Magahi: “अजाद् कश्मीर”
  • Maithili: “आजाद कश्मीर”
  • Malay: “Azad Kashmir”
  • Malayalam: “ആസാദ് കശ്മീർ”
  • Marathi: “पाकव्याप्त काश्मीर”
  • Mazanderani: “آزاد کشمیر”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Azad Kashmir”
  • Mingrelian: “აზად ქაშმირი”
  • Nepali: “आजाद कश्मीर”
  • Nepali: “पाकिस्तान शासित कश्मीर”
  • Northern Frisian: “Asad Kaschmir”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Azad Kashmir”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Asad Jammu og Kashmir”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Asad Jammu og Kasjmir”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Asad Kashmir”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Azad Jammu and Kashmir”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Azad Jammu og Kashmir”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Azad Kashmir”
  • Norwegian: “Azad Kashmir”
  • Oriya: “ଆଜାଦ କାଶ୍ମୀର”
  • Ossetian: “Азад-Кашмир”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਜ਼ਾਦ ਕਸ਼ਮੀਰ”
  • Persian: “کشمیر آزاد”
  • Polish: “Azad Dżammu i Kaszmir”
  • Polish: “Azad Kaszmir”
  • Portuguese: “Azad Kashmir”
  • Portuguese: “Caxemira Livre”
  • Pushto: “آزاد کشمير”
  • Pushto: “ازاد کشمير”
  • Russian: “Азад Джамму и Кашмир”
  • Russian: “Азад Кашмир”
  • Russian: “Азад-Кашмир”
  • Sanskrit: “आजाद काश्मीरम्”
  • Sanskrit: “आज़ाद काश्मीरम्”
  • Sanskrit: “आजादकश्मीरम्”
  • Sanskrit: “आजादकाश्मीरम्”
  • Sanskrit: “आजादजम्मूकाश्मीरम्”
  • Santali: “ᱟᱡᱟᱫᱽ ᱠᱟᱥᱢᱤᱨ”
  • Saraiki: “آزاد جموں و کشمیر”
  • Scots: “Azad Kashmir”
  • Serbian: “Azad Kašmir”
  • Serbian: “Азад Кашмир”
  • Shan: “ဢႃႇၸတ်ႉၶႅတ်ႉသ်မီႇယႃႇ”
  • Sindhi: “آزاد ڪشمير”
  • Sinhala: “අසාද් කාශ්මීර්”
  • Slovenian: “Azad Kašmir”
  • Slovenian: “PK-JK”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آزاد کشمیر”
  • Spanish: “Azad Cachemira”
  • Spanish: “Azad Kashmir”
  • Spanish: “Cachemira azad”
  • Swedish: “Azad Kashmir”
  • Tajik: “Озод-Кашмир”
  • Tamil: “ஆசாத் காசுமீர்”
  • Tamil: “ஆசாத் காஷ்மீரம்”
  • Tamil: “ஆசாத் காஷ்மீர்”
  • Tamil: “பாகிஸ்தானின் காஷ்மீர்”
  • Tamil: “பாகிஸ்தான் கைப்பற்றிய காஷ்மீர்”
  • Tatar: “Азат Кашмир”
  • Telugu: “ఆజాద్ కశ్మీర్”
  • Telugu: “పాక్-ఆక్రమిత కాశ్మీరు”
  • Thai: “อาซาดจัมมูโอกัชมีร์”
  • Turkish: “Azad Keşmir”
  • Ukrainian: “Азад Кашмір”
  • Urdu: “آزاد جموں اور کشمیر”
  • Urdu: “آزاد جموں کشمير”
  • Urdu: “آزاد جموں کشمیر”
  • Urdu: “آزاد جموں و کشمیر”
  • Urdu: “آزاد کشمير”
  • Urdu: “آزاد کشمیر”
  • Vietnamese: “Azad Kashmir”
  • Western Panjabi: “آزاد جموں و کشمیر”
  • Western Panjabi: “آزاد کشمیر”
  • Western Panjabi: “ازاد جموں تے کشمیر”
  • Western Panjabi: “ازاد کشمیر”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿扎德克什米尔”
  • “आजाद काश्मीर”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Azad Kashmir”. Photo: Khurram.Shahid, CC BY-SA 3.0.