Kulachi Tehsil is a

tehsil A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluk, or taluka () is a local unit of administrative division in India and Pakistan. It is a subdistrict of the area within a Zila (country subdivision), district including the designated populated place that ser ...

located in

Dera Ismail Khan District Dera Ismail Khan District (Urdu and , ), often abbreviated as D.I. Khan is a district in the Dera Ismail Khan division of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The capital of the district is the town of Dera Ismail Khan. The district has ...

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.Tehsils & Unions in the District of D.I. Khan - Government of Pakistan
As per the

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, the tehsil's population is 102,595.

Administration

The tehsil is administratively subdivided into 15 Union Councils, one of which forms the headquarters -

Kulachi Kulachi (کلاچی) is a city named after the Kulachi tribe, and is the headquarter of Kulachi Tehsil (an administrative subdivision) of Dera Ismail Khan District in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is located at at an altitude o ...

History

During

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Kulachi was a tehsil of the old

. It was described as follows in the

Imperial Gazetteer of India ''The Imperial Gazetteer of India'' was a gazetteer of the British Indian Empire, and is now a historical reference work. It was first published in 1881. Sir William Wilson Hunter made the original plans of the book, starting in 1869.< ...

:Kulāchi Tahsīl - Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 16, p. 13.
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References

Populated places in Dera Ismail Khan District Tehsils of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa {{DeraIsmailKhan-geo-stub