Balakot Tehsil

Balakot Tehsil (Urdu: تحصیل بالاکوٹ‎) is an administrative subdivision (tehsil) of Mansehra District in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.[2] Balakot is the main city of this area. It was one of the towns which was most damaged in the 2005 Kashmir earthquake on 8 October 2005 [3] and an estimated 80% of the buildings there were destroyed. Villages were badly affected and landslides cut off thousands of people from Balakot where relief workers had been helping the survivors.[4]

Balakot Tehsil


تحصیل بالاکوٹ
Tehsil
Country Pakistan
Province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
DistrictMansehra
Population
 • Total273,089
Time zoneUTC+5 (PST)
Number of towns1
Number of Union Councils16

Its population as of 2017 was 273,000.[1] The major spoken language of the tehsil is Hindko.

Administration

Balakot Tehsil consists of 12 Union Councils:[5]

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References
  1. "DISTRICT AND TEHSIL LEVEL POPULATION SUMMARY WITH REGION BREAKUP: KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. 2018-01-03. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-04-17. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  2. https://www.dawn.com/news/1466286
  3. "Earthquake damage - NWFP government official site". Archived from the original on 2007-08-08. Retrieved 2007-05-23.
  4. Pain and fear in the haven for the lucky - The Guardian
  5. Tehsils & Unions in the District of Mansehra - Government of Pakistan Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine


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