Upper Chitral District

Upper Chitral District is an administrative <a href="/facts/Districts_of_Pakistan/pL8qUdQv">district</a> in the province of <a href="/facts/Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa/A5IKDXIH">Khyber Pakhtunkhwa</a>, Pakistan. <a href="/facts/Kho_people/e51lSEBP">Kho people</a> are the dominant ethnic group in the district, forming 99.84% of the total population.
<a href="/facts/Chitral_River/sgKBNxCu">Chitral River</a> flows across the length of the district. Upper Chitral District along with <a href="/facts/Lower_Chitral_District/0j6qFB3x">Lower Chitral District</a> were part of the erstwhile <a href="/facts/Chitral_District/EJb0uxnN">Chitral District</a> which was the largest district in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, covering an area of 14,850 km2. Previously, it formed part of the <a href="/facts/Chitral_(princely_state)/qPjbCfgT">Chitral princely state</a> that encompassed the region until its incorporation into the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan in 14 August 1947. The erstwhile Chitral District was bifurcated into Upper Chitral and Lower Chitral Districts in November 2018.
The town of <a href="/facts/Buni/e1JhWLGh">Buni</a> is the headquarters of the Chitral Upper District. It shares a border with <a href="/facts/Gilgit-Baltistan/SY4nFYaz">Gilgit-Baltistan</a> to the east, with <a href="/facts/Badakshan/8eAKJPP1">Badakshan</a> province of <a href="/facts/Afghanistan/v63Auu1C">Afghanistan</a> to the north and with the <a href="/facts/Upper_Dir_District/hQamqU0a">Upper Dir</a> District to the southwest and with <a href="/facts/Swat_District/FwPeLTxl">Swat</a> District to the southeast. A narrow strip of <a href="/facts/Wakhan_Corridor/rmYzXbxx">Wakhan Corridor</a> separates Chitral from <a href="/facts/Tajikistan/xLLXqHEJ">Tajikistan</a> in the north.

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Upper Chitral District