Astore District
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Astore District
ضلع استور | |
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District of Gilgit−Baltistan administered by Pakistan.[1] | |
| Nanga Parbat seen from the Rama Valley near Astore District in August 2016 Nanga Parbat seen from the Rama Valley near Astore District in August 2016 | |
| A map showing Pakistani-administered Gilgit-Baltistan (shaded in sage green) in the disputed Kashmir region[1] A map showing Pakistani-administered Gilgit-Baltistan (shaded in sage green) in the disputed Kashmir region[1] | |
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| Administering country | Pakistan |
| Territory | Gilgit-Baltistan |
| Division | Diamer |
| Headquarters | Eidgah |
| Government | |
| • Type | District Administration |
| • Deputy Commissioner | Muhammad Zulqanain Khan |
| • Superintendent of Police | N/A |
| • District Health Officer | N/A |
| Area | |
• Total | 5,411 km2 (2,089 sq mi) |
| Population (2022) | |
• Total | 102,738[2] |
| • Density | 18.99/km2 (49.18/sq mi) |
| Number of tehsils | 2 |
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Astore District (Urdu: ضلع استور) is a district of Pakistan-administered Gilgit-Baltistan in the disputed Kashmir region.[1] It is one of the 14 districts of the Pakistani-administered territory of Gilgit−Baltistan.[3] Its administrative headquarters are located at Eidgah in the Astore Valley.
Astore District is bounded by Gilgit District to the north, Roundu District to the northeast, Skardu District to the east, Kharmang District to the southeast, Diamer District to the west, the Neelum District of Azad Jammu and Kashmir to the southwest, and the Bandipore District of Indian-administered disputed Kashmir region to the south.
Geography
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The Astore Valley has an area of 5,092 km2 and lies at an altitude of 2,600 metres (8,500 ft). The valley has approximately 250 square kilometres (97 sq mi) of glacier cover.[4] The nearest glacier after entering the valley is the Harcho Glacier,[5] and the most accessible is the Siachen Glacier.[6] Overall less than 6% of the district is covered by forests, with 43% of land consisting of alpine and winter pastures.[7]
Accessibility
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Astore is connected to Gilgit, which is well connected by air with Islamabad and by road with Peshawar, Swat, Islamabad-Rawalpindi, Chitral, and Skardu. There are two ways of access to Eidgah. The first is from Skardu via the Deosai Plateau 143 kilometres (89 mi),[8] but that route cannot be used from November to June due to heavy snowfall. The second route, usable the year round, is from Gilgit via Jaglot 128 kilometres (80 mi).[9]
History
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Astore was conquered by Ali Sher Khan Anchan, (ruled 1595–1633), the Maqpon ruler of Skardu. He gave it to Shah Sultan, his grandson. Shah Sultan became progenitor of the line of Astore rulers,[10] who maintained their internal independence until 1842, when it annexed by Sikh Empire.[11][12]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b c The application of the term "administered" to the various regions of Kashmir and a mention of the Kashmir dispute is supported by the tertiary sources (a) through (e), reflecting due weight in the coverage. Although "controlled" and "held" are also applied neutrally to the names of the disputants or to the regions administered by them, as evidenced in sources (h) through (i) below, "held" is also considered politicised usage, as is the term "occupied," (see (j) below).
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- ^ Sher Muhammad, Lide Tian, Asif Khan, "Early twenty-first century glacier mass losses in the Indus Basin constrained by density assumptions", Journal of Hydrology, Volume 574, 2019, pages 467–475
- ^ Muhammad, S., Tian, L., & Nüsser, M. (2019). "No significant mass loss in the glaciers of Astore Basin (North-Western Himalaya), between 1999 and 2016". Journal of Glaciology, 65(250), 270–278. doi:10.1017/jog.2019.5
- ^ Muhammad, S. and Tian, L. (2016) Changes in the ablation zones of glaciers in the western Himalaya and the Karakoram between 1972 and 2015, Remote Sensing of Environment. Elsevier Inc., 187, pp. 505–512. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2016.10.034.
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- ^ "Gilgit" - Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 12, p. 239 According to the Imperial Gazetteer, which was compiled in the first decade of the twentieth century, the marriage took place over three hundred years previously.
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