Upper Kohistan District


Upper Kohistan District is a district in Hazara Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan.

Overview and history

In 2014, the government bifurcated Kohistan District into two districts namely Upper Kohistan and Lower Kohistan.
According to 2017 population census, the total population of Upper Kohistan District made of Dassu and Kandia is 306337. The population of Dassu is 222,282 while that of Kandia is 84,055. The population of the district is 100% rural. The total number of house-hold in the district, according to 2017 census, are 39,849.

Administrative Units

In 2014, Upper Kohistan District is subdivided into two tehsils while on 31 May 2018, Kundai was upgraded into subdivision and two more tehsils were created. With that change, the district has one subdivision and three tehsils in total as shown below: