Sikandarabad, Gilgit

Sikandarabad () is a headquarter of the

Nagar District Nagar District () is a district of Pakistan's Gilgit-Baltistan area in the disputed Kashmir region.The application of the term "administered" to the various regions of Kashmir and a mention of the Kashmir dispute is supported by the tertiary sou ...

of Gilgit–Baltistan in

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. It is the headquarters of Nagar 2 tehsil. It is for first place to enter after Gilgit district. Sikandarabad is located on the

Karakoram Highway The Karakoram Highway (, ), also known as the KKH, National Highway 35 (), N-35, and the ChinaPakistan Friendship Highway, is a National Highways of Pakistan, national highway which extends from Hasan Abdal in the Punjab, Pakistan, Punjab p ...

. The first view point of Rakaposhi is located in Sikanderabad which is across the Silk route of Budalas Valley to Khizerabad. Sikandarabad is a mountainous area in the

Karakoram range The Karakoram () is a mountain range in the Kashmir region spanning the border of Pakistan, China, and India, with the northwestern extremity of the range extending to Afghanistan and Tajikistan. Most of the Karakoram mountain range is withi ...

". It is near the base camp of

Rakaposhi Rakaposhi (; ) also known as Dumani () is a mountain within the Karakoram range in Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan. It is situated in the middle of the Nagar and Bagrote valleys. The mountain is extremely broad, measuring almost from east to west ...

mountain. Opposite Sikandarabad there are the great Himalaya range mountains. It contains many fruit trees and also vegetables, for example, cherry, apples, peach, apricot, potatoes, and maize. It also has dry fruits trees, for example, walnut, almond, and dry apricot. Sikandarabad Nagar is home to a population of approximately 5000 residents. Sikandarabad Nagar serves as the headquarters of the Nagar Valley district. The town plays host to several governmental and administrative offices, including the District Headquarters (DHQ) hospital, which serves as a crucial healthcare facility catering to the medical needs of the local populace. Additionally, various other district administration offices are housed within Sikandarabad Nagar, facilitating the provision of public services to the residents of the Nagar Valley. Populated places in Nagar District {{GilgitBaltistan-geo-stub