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Shalman District شلمانBagh Kaley | |
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District | |
Country | Pakistan |
Province | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa |
Headquarters | Landikotal |
Area | |
• Total | 2,230 km (860 sq mi) |
Population | |
• Total | 33,000 |
• Density | 54/km (140/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+5 (PST) |
ISO 3166 code | 0924 |
Constituency | 1 seat |
The Shalman Valley (Pashto: شلمان دره) is located in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The tehsil headquarters are located at Landikotal. It was previously a subdivision of Shalman Tehsil, but was upgraded to the status of a tehsil on July 10, 2006 by the "MNA Noor ul Haq Alqadri". The total area of the Tehsil is 2,230 square kilometres. Shalman comprises two sub division, Kam Shalman and Loye Shalman. Shalman has the lowest Human Development Index in the province and second lowest in the country.
Shalmani also spelled as Shilmani, Shelmani, Sulemani is the tribe living in this valley as well as in other parts of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran.
Notes and references
- ^ 1998 Tehsil Census Report of Shalman, Population Census Organisation, Statistics Division, Government of Pakistan, Islamabad, 2003 P. 8
- ^ 2006 Tehsil Census Report of Shalman, Population Census Organisation, Statistics Division, Government of Pakistan, Islamabad, 2003 P. 1
- Deprivation profile of regions By MNA Allama Noor ul Haq Alqadri DAWN September 23, 2002 Monday. Retrieved 21 June 2004
- Ranking of Tehsil by Human Development Index 2003 Archived 2008-10-10 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on 10 July 2005
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