Geography & Districts

What is established

AJK’s mountain landscape includes valleys, rivers, forests, and roads that connect towns and villages. Administrative geography is organised into divisions, districts, and tehsils. Place records in the archive use district and tehsil fields where known. Centres documented in Dhār include Muzaffarabad, Mirpur, Rawalakot, Kotli, and other towns.

What is disputed or contested

Boundary lines, district names, and maps of the wider Kashmir region are politically charged. A schematic on this site is not a claim about an international border.

Terminology used by Dhār

District and tehsil names follow the administrative labels used in AJK source documents unless a record notes an alternative local name.

Why that terminology is used

Researchers need to find records by the names that appear in official papers, press, and oral accounts. Alternative spellings are stored on Place records.

Sources / further reading

Browse Places in the Archive and the Maps & Data methodology notes.