Balakot Tehsil ( ur, ) is an administrative subdivision (

tehsil 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 ...

) of

Mansehra District Mansehra District is a district in Hazara Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. It was established as a district in 1976, prior to which it was a tehsil within the former Hazara District. Two former subdivisions of Mansehra were ...

in the

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

province of Pakistan.

Balakot Balakot (; ur, ; ) is a town in Mansehra District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The town was destroyed during the 2005 Kashmir earthquake, but was later rebuilt with the assistance of the Government of Pakistan and Saudi Pu ...

is the main city of this area. It was one of the towns which was most damaged in the

2005 Kashmir earthquake The 2005 Kashmir earthquake occurred at on 8 October in Pakistani-administered Azad Kashmir. It was centred near the city of Muzaffarabad, and also affected nearby Balakot in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and some areas of Indian-administered Jammu an ...

on 8 October 2005 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. Its population as of 2017 was . The major spoken language of the tehsil is

Hindko Hindko (, romanized: , ) is a cover term for a diverse group of Lahnda dialects spoken by several million people of various ethnic backgrounds in several areas in northwestern Pakistan, primarily in the provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and P ...

Administration

Balakot Tehsil consists of 12 Union Councils:Tehsils & Unions in the District of Mansehra - Government of Pakistan
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Garhi Habibullah Garhi may refer to several places: * Garhi Abdullakhan * Garhi Daulatzai * Garhi Dupatta * Garhi Habibullah * Garhi Harsaru * Garhi Ismail Zai * Garhi Khuda Bakhsh * Garhi Matani * Garhi Pukhta * Garhi Shahu * Garhi Sher Ahmed * Garhi Yas ...

Garlat Garlat is a village and union council (an administrative subdivision) of Mansehra District in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is located in Balakot tehsil and lies in an area that was affecteded by the 2005 Kashmir earthquake ...

Ghanool Ghanool is a village and union council (an administrative subdivision) of Mansehra District in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is located in Balakot tehsil and lies in an area that was affected by the 2005 Kashmir earthquake. Th ...

Hangrai Hangrai is a village and union council (an administrative subdivision) of Mansehra District in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is located in the lower Kaghan Valley and lies to the north of Balakot city in an area that was affected ...

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Karnol Karnol is a village and union council (an administrative subdivision) of Mansehra District in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is located at at an altitude of 797 metres (2618 feet) lying in the south east of the district nea ...

Kewai Kiwai is a union council of Mansehra District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is located on the way to Kaghan Valley. Payee Lake is accessible via Kiwai passing through Shogran by a jeep track. See also * Kaghan Valley * Lalaza ...

Mahandri Mahandri is a village in the Kaghan Valley in the Mansehra District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. There is a road from Balakot that ascends along the Kunhar River through lovely forests to Mahandri and to the villages of Paras, S ...

Satbani Satbani is a village and union council (an administrative subdivision) of Mansehra District in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is located in Balakot tehsil and lies in an area that was affected by the 2005 Kashmir earthquake. On 3 ...

Shohal Mazullah Shohal Mazullah Khan is a village and union council (an administrative subdivision) of Mansehra District in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.Talhata Talhatta is a village and union council (an administrative subdivision) of Mansehra District (Tehsil Balakot) Kaghan Valley, in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is located in the south of the district where its borders Slightly to ...

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