Murree Tehsil ( ur, تحصیل مری) is one of the two

Tehsils A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluka, or taluk) is a local unit of administrative division in some countries of South Asia. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administr ...

(i.e. sub-divisions) of

Murree District Murree District (Urdu, ) is a district in the northernmost part of Punjab province of Pakistan, with it being headquartered in Murree city. It is a relatively new district established on 14 October 2022, and is a tourist district of Pakistan. I ...

in the

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province A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman '' provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions ou ...

Pakistan Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 24 ...

. Murree Tehsil is located in the northernmost part of Punjab province where it borders

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (; ps, خېبر پښتونخوا; Urdu, Hindko: خیبر پختونخوا) commonly abbreviated as KP or KPK, is one of the Administrative units of Pakistan, four provinces of Pakistan. Located in the Geography of Pakistan, ...

. The hill resort city of

Murree Murree (Punjabi, Urdu: مری) is a mountain resort city, located in the Galyat region of the Pir Panjal Range, within the Muree District of Punjab, Pakistan. It forms the outskirts of the Islamabad-Rawalpindi metropolitan area, and is about ...

is the capital city of this area.

Administration

Murree Tehsil is divided into 15 Union Councils. These are: Note: The UC prefix is used for administration purposes as Rawalpindi District has a total of 90 Union Councils.

2005 earthquake

During the earthquake of 2005, 40% of houses in Murree tehsil were damaged or destroyed.

Demographics

According to population census of 2017

has a population of 233,017.

References

{{Murree-Union-Councils Murree District Tehsils of Punjab, Pakistan