Gulibagh is a town and a Union Council located in the Swat Valley. As an administrative unit in Pakistan, it is officially recognized as a Union Council. More specifically, it is a town in the

Swat District Swat District (), also known as the Swat Valley, is a Districts of Pakistan, district in the Malakand Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Known for its stunning natural beauty, the district is a popular tourist destination. With a populati ...

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (; ; , ; abbr. KP or KPK), formerly known as the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), is a Administrative units of Pakistan, province of Pakistan. Located in the Northern Pakistan, northwestern region of the country, Khyber ...

province,

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. The literal meaning of "Gulibagh" in the

Pashto Pashto ( , ; , ) is an eastern Iranian language in the Indo-European language family, natively spoken in northwestern Pakistan and southern and eastern Afghanistan. It has official status in Afghanistan and the Pakistani province of Khyb ...

language is "garden of flowers." District Swat consists of seven Tehsils: Khwazakhela,

Charbagh A ''charbagh'' or ''chaharbagh'' (; , , ) is a Persian gardens, Persian and Indo-Persian quadrilateral garden with a layout of four gardens traditionally separated by waterways, together representing the four gardens and rivers of Paradise, ...

, Kabal, Barikot, Babuzai, Matta, and Bahrain. Each Tehsil is further divided into several Union Councils, with a total of 65 Union Councils in the district—56 rural and 9 urban. Gulibagh is one of these Union Councils. As an administrative unit, Union Council Gulibagh includes several small villages, such as Allaabad, Dakorak, Landake, Gulibagh (the town), Waliabad, Roria, and Alamganj. Gulibagh itself is further divided into smaller Mohallas, including Rorya, Waliabad, Bodababa, Spina Khawra, Shindand, Bamano Cham, Kalay, and Maira. The majority of the population resides in Kalay. Gulibagh is home t
Cadet College Swat
a premier educational institution located in Waliabad. Additionally, the area includes notable landmarks such as Patham, currently used as a Taliban jail and formerly the PAK-Austria Hotel, situated in Maira, and the University of Swat, located in Allaabad, a part of Union Council Gulibagh.

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Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Government website section on Lower DirUnited NationsHajjinfo.org Uploads

Swat District Populated places in Swat District Union councils of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Union Councils of Swat District {{Swat-geo-stub

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