Barang Tehsil () is an administrative subdivision (

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) of

Bajaur District Bajaur District (, ), formerly Bajaur Agency, is a district in the Malakand Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. Prior to 2018, Bajaur Agency was the northernmost component of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), a semi-a ...

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. Barang is the sixth largest of Bajaur District's seven tehsils.

History

Barang Subdivision was a part of the former

Federally Administered Tribal Areas The Federally Administered Tribal Areas, commonly known as FATA, was a semi-autonomous tribal region in north-western Pakistan that existed from 1947 until being merged with the neighbouring province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 2018 through the ...

until the region was merged with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on May 31, 2018. It was a tehsil before the FATA Interim Governance Regulation, 2018 was signed by

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. It was upgraded to a subdivision at the time FATA was merged with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Geography

Barang Tehsil, the second smallest of seven tehsils in Bajaur District, is 159 km² in area, encompasses a series of mountain ravines. Located in the district's southeast corner and jutting southward, Barang Tehsil shares a 21.73 km border with

Malakand District Malakand District (, ) is a Districts of Pakistan, district in the Malakand Division of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Until 1970, it was a part of the Malakand Protected Area of the erstwhile Provincially Administered Tribal Area(P ...

Batkhela Batkhela (, ) is a city, tehsil and the district headquarter of the Malakand District within the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. According to the 2017 Census of Pakistan, the population of Batkhela was recorded at 68,200. Batkhela is c ...

Tehsil to the east, a 7.51 km border with

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Prang Ghar Tehsil Prang Ghar is a tehsil located in Mohmand District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It's about 70km from Peshawar. The population is 35,290 according to the 2017 census. The region is divided into two parts: Upper Prang Ghar, where people belong ...

to the south, a 21.53 km border with Mohmand District's Ambar Utmankhel Tehsil to the west, an 11.01 km border with Khar Bajaur Tehsil to the northwest, a 19.95 km border with

Utman Khel Tehsil Utman Khel Tehsil () is an administrative subdivision (tehsil) of Bajaur District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. Utman Khel is the fifth largest of Bajaur District's seven tehsils. Geography Utman Khel Tehsil, t ...

to the northeast, and a short 0.65 km border with

Lower Dir District Lower Dir District (, ) is a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Timergara is the district's headquarters and largest city. The Lower Dir district was formed in 1996, when Dir District was divided into Upper Dir and Lower ...

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Demographics

Population

As of the 2017 Pakistani national census, Barang Tehsil has a population of 76,558 people and 10,511 households, representing a +2.24% population increase from its 1998 census population of 50,139 compared to a +3.23% population growth in the overall Bajaur District. Residents of Barang comprise 7.01% of the Bajaur District population as of 2017.

Language

The vast majority of Barang residents expectedly speak

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as their mother tongue, the predominant language of ethnic

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(Pashtuns) and of the derivatively-named

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(KPK). As of 2017, 99.46% of Barang residents recorded Pashto as their mother tongue with other residents recording

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(182), Brahui (63), Sindhi (26), Saraiki (22), Balochi (11),

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(10),

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(7), and others (26), as mother tongues.

Religion

As of 2017, all 76,558 residents of Barang Tehsil reported belonging to the Muslim faith. Barang and Bar Chamarkand Tehsils were the only two in Bajaur to report 100% Muslim residents; four other tehsils report 99.98% to 99.99% adherence to Islam, and Khar Bajaur Tehsil, containing the district's capital, Khar, hosted 3 Christians, 37 Ahmadi, 6 belonging to caste systems, and 3 reporting 'other'.

Politics

Barang Tehsil is politically represented in the

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(the

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of the national

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) in the

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constituency and in the

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in the PK-21 Bajaur-III constituency. In both bodies, Barang Tehsil (as well as Bajaur District and most of KPK) historically elects candidates from the

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(PTI) party established by Pakistani

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and 22nd

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, who is seen as a fierce advocate for the nation's Pakhtuns, many of whom feel disenfranchised by

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References

Tehsils of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Populated places in Bajaur District {{Bajaur-geo-stub