Mansehra District
Mansehra District
ضلع مانسہرہ | |
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Mansehra District (red) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | |
| Country | Pakistan |
| Province | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa |
| Division | Hazara |
| Region | Pakhli |
| Headquarters | Mansehra |
| Government | |
| • Type | District administration |
| • Deputy Commissioner | Bilal Shahid Rao (BPS-18 PAS) |
| • District Police Officer | Zahoor Babar Afridi (BPS-19 PSP) |
| Area | |
| 4,579 km2 (1,768 sq mi) | |
| Population (2023) | |
| 1,797,177 | |
| • Density | 392.5/km2 (1,017/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 154,834 (8.62%) |
| • Rural | 1,642,343 |
| Literacy | |
| • Literacy rate |
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| Time zone | UTC+5 (PST) |
| Area code | 0997 |
| Number of union councils | 59 |
| Number of tehsils | 5 |
| Website | mansehra |
Mansehra District (Urdu, Hindko: ضلع مانسہرہ) is a district in the Hazara Division, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northern Pakistan. The city of Mansehra serves as the headquarters of the district.
Mansehra was established as an independent district in 1976. It was previously a tehsil within the broader Hazara District. In 1993, a former subdivision of Mansehra, Battagram, was separated as an independent district. Similarly, in 2011, another subdivision of Mansehra, Kala Dhaka, was separated which is now known as Torghar District.
The area comprising present-day Mansehra District historically consisted of two regions: Pakhal, known as the country of the Swati tribe, and Tanawal, the territory of the Tanoli tribe. According to revenue records, historical accounts, and British gazetteers, following the conquest of Pakhal from the Turks in 1703, Swati clans settled across the region, establishing ownership of nearly all villages in the district.