Frontier Regions


The Frontier Regions of Pakistan were a group of small administrative units in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, lying immediately to the east of the seven main tribal agencies and west of the settled districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Each of the Frontier Regions was named after an adjoining settled district and was administered by the district coordination officer of that adjacent district. The overall administration of the Frontier Regions was carried out by the FATA Secretariat based in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The six Frontier Regions were:
RegionDCOArea PopulationPopulation density
Frontier Region BannuM. Javed Marwat74519,59326
Frontier Region Dera Ismail KhanSyed Mohsin Shah2,00838,99019
Frontier Region KohatMr. Siraj Ahmad44688,456198
Frontier Region Lakki MarwatM. Anwar Khan Mehsud1326,98753
Frontier Region PeshawarSahibzada M. Anees26153,841206
Frontier Region TankBarkat Ullah1,22127,21622
Total4,813235,08349