Darel District (Urdu: ضلع داریل) is a district of Pakistan's Gilgit-Baltistan area in the disputed Kashmir region. It is lies south-west of Gilgit District. Its population lives mainly in the valley of the Darel River, a right tributary of the Indus River.

History

Prior to 2019, the Darel District was a tehsil of the Diamer District, along with Tangir and Chilas.

Geography

The Darel District is bounded on the north by the Ghizer District, on the north-east by the Gilgit District, on the east and southeast by the Diamer District, and on the south and west by the Upper Kohistan District of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province,