Balakot Tehsil
Balakot Tehsil
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| Area of Upper Pakhli | |
| Coordinates: 34°52′59″N 73°40′01″E / 34.883°N 73.667°E | |
| Country | Pakistan |
| Province | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa |
| District | Mansehra |
| Region | Upper Pakhli |
| Government | |
| • MPA | Munir Lughmani Swati (PTI) |
| Population (2017) | |
• Total | 273,089 |
| Time zone | UTC+5 (PST) |
| Number of towns | 1 |
| Number of Union Councils | 16 |
Balakot Tehsil (Urdu: تحصیل بالاکوٹ) is an administrative subdivision (tehsil) of Mansehra District in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan Balakot is the main city of this. It was one of the towns that was devastated in the 2005 Kashmir earthquake with around 80% of the buildings there destroyed. Villages were badly affected and landslides cut off thousands of people from Balakot where relief workers had been helping the survivors.
Its population as of 2017 was 273,000. The major spoken language of the tehsil is Hindko