Frontier Regions

Location of the Frontier Regions in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas

The Frontier Regions (often abbreviated as FR) of Pakistan are a group of small administrative units in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), lying immediately to the east of the seven main tribal agencies and west of the settled districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Each of the Frontier Regions is named after an adjoining settled district and is administered by the district coordination officer (DCO) of that adjacent district.[1] The overall administration of the Frontier Regions is carried out by the FATA Secretariat based in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The six Frontier Regions are:

Region DCO[2] Area (km²)[3] Population[3] Population density
(inh. per km²)
Frontier Region Bannu M. Javed Marwat 745 19,593 26
Frontier Region Dera Ismail Khan Syed Mohsin Shah 2,008 38,990 19
Frontier Region Kohat Mr. Siraj Ahmad 446 88,456 198
Frontier Region Lakki Marwat M. Anwar Khan Mehsud 132 6,987 53
Frontier Region Peshawar Sahibzada M. Anees 261 53,841 206
Frontier Region Tank Barkat Ullah 1,221 27,216 22
Total 4,813 235,083 49

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Administrative System". FATA Secretariat. Archived from the original on March 30, 2010. Retrieved 2010-04-05.
  2. ↑ "Population". FATA Secretariat. Archived from the original on March 3, 2009. Retrieved 2010-04-05.
  3. 1 2 "Population". FATA Secretariat. Archived from the original on March 3, 2009. Retrieved 2010-04-05.

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