Dir - Places and Areas

Places and Areas

  • Dir, Pakistan, a town in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan.
  • Dir (princely state), a former princely state in the North-West Frontier Province, incorporated into Pakistan in 1969.
  • Dir District in the North West Frontier Province, in 1996 split into two districts:
    • Upper Dir, with its headquarters in Dir city, and
    • Lower Dir, with its headquarters in Timargara.

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