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District Bhimber<\/span><\/h2>\n

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Bhimber District<\/b>\u00a0(\u00a0\u0636\u0644\u0639 \u0628\u06be\u0645\u0628\u0631<\/span><\/span>) is a district of Pakistan-administered Azad Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region.\u00a0<\/sup>It is the southernmost of the 10 districts of\u00a0Pakistan’s territory of\u00a0Azad Kashmir. It has an area of 1,516\u00a0km\u00b2, and the district headquarter is the town of\u00a0Bhimber.<\/h5>\n
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History<\/span><\/h2>\n

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The area is rich in\u00a0archeological\u00a0remains due to its strategic location on the route that was followed by the\u00a0Mughal emperors\u00a0on their frequent visits to the\u00a0Kashmir Valley.<\/h5>\n
It is strategically important from defense and military standpoint. Due to its location, it became known as the Gateway to Kashmir (Bab-e-Kashmir).<\/h5>\n
During the\u00a01947 Poonch rebellion\u00a0and subsequent\u00a0Indo-Pakistani War of 1947\u20131948\u00a0Bhimber was captured by the Azad Kashmir rebels supported by\u00a0Pakistan\u00a0and became a part of the\u00a0Azad Kashmir.<\/sup><\/h5>\n
Previously, Bhimber was a tehsil of the\u00a0Mirpur District\u00a0but was elevated to district status in 1996.<\/sup><\/h5>\n

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Location<\/span><\/h2>\n

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The Bhimber District is bounded on the north by the\u00a0Kotli District, on the east by the\u00a0Rajouri District\u00a0and the\u00a0Jammu District\u00a0of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, on the south by the\u00a0Gujrat District\u00a0of\u00a0Pakistan’s\u00a0Punjab Province, and on the west by the\u00a0Mirpur District. The town of\u00a0Bhimber\u00a0is 50\u00a0km from the city of\u00a0Mirpur.<\/h5>\n

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Demography<\/span><\/h2>\n

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According to the\u00a02017 census, the population of the district is 420,624.<\/sup><\/h5>\n
The main native languages are\u00a0Punjabi\u00a0(according to a rough estimate, spoken by 35% of the population),\u00a0Pahari-Pothwari\u00a0(30%),\u00a0Dogri\u00a0(30%) and\u00a0Gujari\u00a0(5%).<\/sup><\/sup>Urdu\u00a0language has ‘official’ status.<\/h5>\n

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Education<\/span><\/h2>\n

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According to the Alif Ailaan Pakistan District Education Rankings 2015, the Bhimber District ranked 10th out of 145 districts in Pakistan and its two dependent territories in terms of education. For facilities and infrastructure, the district ranked 116 out of 145.<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

District Bhimber   Bhimber District\u00a0(\u00a0\u0636\u0644\u0639 \u0628\u06be\u0645\u0628\u0631) is a district of Pakistan-administered Azad Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region.\u00a0It is the southernmost of the 10 districts of\u00a0Pakistan’s territory of\u00a0Azad Kashmir. It has an area of 1,516\u00a0km\u00b2, and the district headquarter is the town of\u00a0Bhimber. History   The area is rich in\u00a0archeological\u00a0remains due to its strategic location […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-55","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirdigitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirdigitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirdigitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirdigitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirdigitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirdigitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4461,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirdigitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55\/revisions\/4461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirdigitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}