Muzaffarabad District
Muzaffarabad District
ضلع مُظفّرآباد | |
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District of Azad Kashmir administered by Pakistan | |
The city of Muzaffarabad, Azad Kashmir | |
Interactive map of Muzaffarabad district | |
A map showing Pakistani-administered Gilgit-Baltistan (shaded in sage green) in the disputed Kashmir region | |
| Coordinates (Muzaffarabad): 34°20′N 73°36′E / 34.333°N 73.600°E | |
| Administering country | Pakistan |
| Territory | Azad Kashmir |
| Division | Muzaffarabad Division |
| Headquarters | Muzaffarabad |
| Government | |
| • Type | District Administration |
| • Deputy Commissioner | Mudassar Farooq |
| • District Police Officer | N/A |
| • District Education Officer Male/Female | N/A |
| • District Nazim | Imtiaz Ahmad Abbasi |
| Area | |
• Total | 1,642 km2 (634 sq mi) |
| Population (2017) | |
• Total | 650,370 |
| • Density | 396/km2 (1,030/sq mi) |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Urdu |
| • Spoken | |
| Number of Tehsils | 2 |
The Muzaffarabad District (Urdu: ضلع مُظفّرآباد) is a district of Pakistan-administered Azad Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region. It is one of the 10 districts of this dependent territory. The district is located on the banks of the Jhelum and Neelum rivers and is very hilly. The total area of the Muzaffarabad District is 1,642 square kilometres (634 sq mi). The district is part of the Muzaffarabad Division, and the city of Muzaffarabad serves as the capital of Azad Kashmir. The district is bounded on the north-east by the Neelum District and the Kupwara district of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir region, on the south-east by the Hattian Bala District, on the south by the Bagh District, and on the west by the Mansehra and Abbottabad districts of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province.