[2][3] It serves as the Tehsil headquarters and covers a total area of 300 square miles (780 km2).

Battagram Tehsil merged into Pakistan as an administrative region before being raised to the status of a district in 1993.

Battagram Tehsil is surrounded by Allai,[4] Shangla, and Kohistan to the north and the east, and by the Kaghan Valley and Mansehra to the west.

The valley was ruled by Khans (tribal rulers) until they signed the Instrument of Accession with Pakistan in 1949.

The Battagram (Tehsil) valley was badly affected by the 2005 Kashmir earthquake on October 8, 2005.