Kohistān District (Pakistan)
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- United Nations. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Pakistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Kohistan District, 2011
- GEOnet, Jan. 20, 2012 :(Kohistān District, 35°19ʹ30ʺ N/73°13ʹ45ʺ E, 2nd order administrative division)
Wikipedia description:
Kohistan District, also known as Indus Kohistan (Indus Kohistani and Kohistani Shina: سندھُ کوستَیں) and Hazara Kohistan, was a district within the Hazara Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Consisting of eastern portion of the larger Kohistan region, it was bifurcated into two districts in 2014: Upper Kohistan and Lower Kohistan. In 2017, the Lower Kohistan District was further bifurcated and a district Kolai-Palas was established. It has an area of 7,492 square kilometres (2,893 sq mi) and a population of 472,570 according to the 1998 Census. Geographically, Kohistan stretched from Gilgit-Baltistan in the north to the Mansehra District in the east to the Battagram District and Shangla and Swat districts in the west.
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