Chappargram or Chapargram (

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: چھپرگرام,

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: چھپرګراﻣ) is a village of

Battagram District Battagram (, ) is a tribal Districts of Pakistan, district in Hazara Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. The headquarter is Battagram, which is about 75 km from Mansehra, Mansehra city. It was part of historic Yaghistan (In ...

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province of

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. It is part of Ajmera Union Council and lies within Battagram Tehsil and is located about four kilometres from the

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headquarters

Battagram Battagram (, ) is a city and Union Council of Battagram District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan. It is located at 34°41'N 73°1'E and has an altitude of 1038 metres (3408 feet). Climate With a mild and generally warm and temperate ...

along the Shahrah-e-Resham (Karakoram Highway) or

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. Chappargram was one of the villages affected by the

2005 Kashmir earthquake An earthquake occurred at on 8 October 2005 in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, a territory under Pakistan. Its epicenter was 19 km northeast of the city of Muzaffarabad, and 90 km north north-east of Islamabad, the capital city of Pakistan, ...

of October 8, 2005 when more than 100 people were killed and approximately 500 were injured. Many residents of the village were rendered homeless and without

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Image:A view of Chappargram.JPG, Chappargram, a village in the Battagram District. Image:A child of chappargram.JPG, A child from Chappargram. Image:A view of village chappargram from kandar.JPG, View of Chappargram from Kandar.

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BATTAGRAM-District Profile ERRA

"List of polling stations" – The Gazette of Pakistan"NRC PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE SITUATION REPORT – WEEK ENDING 5TH FEB 2006" – Norwegian Refugee CouncilWorld Bank Document
Populated places in Battagram District {{Battagram-geo-stub

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