Bagh District
Bagh District
ضلع باغ | |
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District of Azad Kashmir administered by Pakistan | |
A map showing Pakistani-administered Azad Kashmir (shaded in sage green) in the disputed Kashmir region | |
Interactive map of Bagh District | |
| Coordinates (Bagh, Azad Kashmir): 33°58′25″N 73°47′30″E / 33.9735°N 73.7918°E | |
| Administering country | Pakistan |
| Territory | Azad Kashmir |
| Division | Poonch Division |
| Headquarters | Bagh |
| Government | |
| • Type | District Administration |
| • Deputy Commissioner | N/A |
| • District Police Officer | N/A |
| • District Health Officer | N/A |
| Area | |
• Total | 770 km2 (300 sq mi) |
| Population (2017) | |
• Total | 371,919 |
| • Density | 483/km2 (1,250/sq mi) |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Urdu |
| • Spoken | Pahari-Pothwari Kashmiri Gujari |
| Number of Tehsils | 3 |
Bagh District (Urdu: ضلع باغ) is a district of Pakistan-administered Azad Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region. It is one of the ten districts of Azad Jammu and Kashmir. Previously part of Poonch District, Bagh was established as a separate district in 1988.
The Bagh District is bounded on the north by the Muzaffarabad District, the Hattian Bala District, and the Baramulla District of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, on the east by the Haveli District, on the south by the Poonch District, and on the west by the Abbottabad District of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and the Rawalpindi District of Pakistan's Punjab Province. The total area of the district is 770 square kilometers. The Bagh District is linked to the Muzaffarabad District by two roads, one via Sudhan Gali (80 km) and the other via Kohala (97 km). The district headquarters is the city of Bagh, which is situated 46 km from Rawalakot. It is said that a bagh (garden) was set up by a landowner where the premises of the Forest Department are now located. As a result, the area that is now the district headquarters was named "Bagh".