Upper Chitral District
Upper Chitral District
توری ݯھیترارو ضلع ضلع چترالِ بالا | |
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Location in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | |
| Country | Pakistan |
| Province | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa |
| Division | Malakand |
| Established | 2018 |
| Headquarters | Buni |
| Government | |
| • Type | District Administration |
| • Deputy Commissioner | Mr. Muhammad Irfan Uddin PMS (BPS-18) |
| • District Police Officer | Shah Jahan (BPS-18 PSP) |
| • District Health Officer | N/A |
| Area | |
• District | 8,392 km2 (3,240 sq mi) |
| Population (2023) | |
• District | 195,528 |
| • Density | 23.30/km2 (60.34/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 0 |
| • Rural | 195,528 |
| Literacy | |
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| Time zone | UTC+5 (PST) |
| Numbers of Tehsils | 2 |
| Website | upperchitral |
Upper Chitral District (Khowar: توری ݯھیترارو ضلع; Urdu: ضلع چترال بالا) is an administrative district in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Kho people are the dominant ethnic group in the district, forming 99.84% of the total population.
Chitral River flows across the length of the district. Upper Chitral District along with Lower Chitral District were part of the erstwhile Chitral District which was the largest district in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, covering an area of 14,850 km2. Previously, it formed part of the Chitral princely state that encompassed the region until its incorporation into the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan in 14 August 1947. The former Chitral District was bifurcated into Upper Chitral and Lower Chitral Districts in November 2018.
The town of Buni is the headquarters of the Chitral Upper District. It borders Gilgit-Baltistan to the east, Badakshan province of Afghanistan to the north, Upper Dir District to the southwest and Swat District to the southeast. The narrow strip of Wakhan Corridor separates Chitral from Tajikistan in the north.