Bajaur District

Bajaur District ضلع باجوڑ باجوړ ولسوالۍ
District
View of Bajaur Bottom: View of Guluna
Bajaur District (red) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Coordinates: 34°41′N 71°30′E
Country	Pakistan
Province	Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Division	Malakand
Administration HQ	Khar
Government
• Type	District Administration
• Deputy Commissioner	Muhammad Anwar-ul-Haq
Area
• District	1,290 km2 (500 sq mi)
Population  (2023)
• District	1,287,960
• Density	998.2/km2 (2,585/sq mi)
• Urban	0
• Rural	1,287,960
Demonym	Bajauri
Literacy
• Literacy rate	Total: 26.26% Male: 39.89% Female: 12.29%
Time zone	UTC+5 (PST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+6 (PDT)
Main language	Pashto
Number of Tehsils	7
Website	bajaur.kp.gov.pk

Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox settlement with deprecated parameter settlement_type. Replace with type.

Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox settlement with deprecated parameter blank_info_sec1. Replace with custom_data_sec1.

Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox settlement with deprecated parameter pushpin_map_caption. Replace with pushpin_caption.

Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox settlement with deprecated parameter blank1_info_sec1. Replace with custom_data1_sec1.

Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox settlement with deprecated parameter timezone. Replace with time_zone.

Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox settlement with deprecated parameter blank1_name_sec1. Replace with custom_label1_sec1.

Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox settlement with deprecated parameter blank_name_sec1. Replace with custom_label_sec1.

Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox settlement with deprecated parameter mapsize1. Replace with map_size1.

Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox settlement with deprecated parameter imagesize. Replace with image_size.

Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox settlement with multiple other deprecated parameters. Fix those above and preview again.

Bajaur District (Pashto: باجوړ ولسوالۍ, Urdu: ضلع باجوڑ), formerly Bajaur Agency, is a district in the Malakand Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. Prior to 2018, Bajaur Agency was the northernmost component of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), a semi-autonomous region along the Afghanistan–Pakistan border. In May 2018, FATA was merged into the larger Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province (KPK) in an attempt to bring stability to the region, redesignating Bajaur Agency to Bajaur District.

The district lies on Pakistan's western border, sharing a 52 km border with Afghanistan's Kunar Province, and lies 35 mi (56 km) north of the Torkham border crossing linking Jalalabad and Peshawar. 498 square kilometer miles in size, Bajaur occupies a small mountain basin and is into seven tehsil (subdistricts) with its district headquarters in the town of Khar, in the district's center.