Barikot Tehsil
Barikot Tehsil
تحصیل بریکوٹ بریکوټ تحصیل | |
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| Coordinates: 34°40′40″N 72°13′24″E / 34.67778°N 72.22333°E | |
| Country | Pakistan |
| Province | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa |
| District | Swat |
| Government | |
| • Tehsil Chairman | Kashif Ali (Pakistan Tehreek Insaf) |
| Population (2023) | |
| 220,148 | |
| • Urban | 115,045 |
| • Rural | 105,103 |
| Time zone | UTC+5 (PST) |
Barikot is an administrative subdivision (tehsil) of Swat District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
Swat District has seven tehsils i.e. Tehsil Barikot, Tehsil Babuzai, Tehsil Matta, Tehsil Khwazakhela, Tehsil Kabal, Tehsil Charbagh and Tehsil Bahrain. Each Tehsil comprises certain numbers of Union council. There are 65 Union council in district Swat (56 rural and 09 urban).
According to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Local Government Act 2013, Tehsil Barikot has the following 5 Wards: