Lower Dir District (Pashto: ښکته دير ولسوالۍ, Urdu: ضلع دیر زیریں) is a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

[3] Lower Dir is famous for its beautiful snow-capped mountains, valleys, and pleasant weather.

[citation needed] The primary industry in Lower Dir is tourism, which is now rapidly growing.

At the time of independence of Pakistan, Dir was a princely state ruled by Nawab Shah Jehan Khan.

[2] As of the 2023 census, Lower Dir district has 202,836 households and a population of 1,650,183.