Drazanda Tehsil

Drazanda Tehsil
تحصیل درازندہ
درازنده تحصیل
Frontier Region Dera Ismail Khan
سرحدی علاقہ ڈیره اسماعیل خان
دېره اسماعيل خان سرحدي سیمه
Tehsil
Location of Dera Ismail Khan Subdivision in the former Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan
Location of Dera Ismail Khan Subdivision in the former Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan
Country Pakistan
Region Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
DistrictDera Ismail Khan District
HeadquartersDrazanda
Area
 • Total2,008 km2 (775 sq mi)
Population
 • Total68,556
 • Density34/km2 (88/sq mi)

Drazanda Tehsil is an administrative subdivision (tehsil) of Dera Ismail Khan District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It borders South Waziristan to the north, Dera Ghazi Khan and Musa Khel to the south and Zhob to the west. The capital is the town of Drazanda.

Before 2018, this administrative subdivision was known as Dera Ismail Khan Subdivision, and before that as Frontier Region Dera Ismail Khan. The region was named after Dera Ismail Khan District which lay to the east.[3]

  1. ^ "AREA & POPULATION OF ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS BY RURAL/URBAN: 1951-1998 CENSUSES" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 2018-05-11.
  2. ^ "DISTRICT WISE CENSUS RESULTS CENSUS 2017" (PDF). www.pbscensus.gov.pk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-08-29. Retrieved 2017-12-17.
  3. ^ "Historical background and administrative profile of the FR Kohat". FATA Secretariat. Archived from the original on January 6, 2010. Retrieved 2010-04-05.

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