Upper Kohistan District

Upper Kohistan District (Urdu: ضلع کوہستان بالا) is a district in the Hazara Division of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

[2][3][4][5][6] Before 2014, this region was part of the large Kohistan District.

[2][7] As of the 2023 census, Upper Kohistan district has 63,712 households and a population of 422,947.

[1] In the 2023 census, 775 (0.21% of the surveyed population) people in the district are from religious minorities, mainly Christians.

With that change, the district had one subdivision and three tehsils in total as shown below:[11][12]