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Gilgit-Baltistan History 

Formerly known as the Northern Areas, Gilgit-Baltistan is a region that Pakistan administers as an administrative territory. It is located in the northern part of the larger Kashmir region, which has been the source of a dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947 and between India and China since a little while later. It is the most northern territory under the Pakistani administration. Azad Kashmir to the south, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to the west, Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor to the north, China's Xinjiang region to the east and northeast, and the union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh governed by India to the southeast.

Gilgit-Baltistan is a part of Kashmir, a wider area that has been the subject of a protracted conflict between Pakistan and India. The area is described as a bordering region of Azad Kashmir by the UN and other international organizations. Kashmir is governed by Pakistan, according to organizations. Six times the size of Azad Kashmir is Gilgit-Baltistan.
 The Line of Control, the de facto border between India and Pakistan, divides the region from the American union territories of Jammu and Kashmir (union territory) and Ladakh

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Almost 72,971 km2 (28,174 sq mi) of Gilgit-Baltistan are covered by mountains. In 2013, it was projected to have 1.249 million residents; Shahid Javed Burki (2015) pegged that number at 1.8 million. Gilgit is its capital city (population 216,760 est).

Districts:

Four more districts were added to the region's administrative entities on Monday by the Gilgit Baltistan administration, bringing the total to 14. The names of these four districts will be District Darel, District Tangir, District Yaseen, and District Rondu, according to the regional government's announcement. These new districts were previously divisions.

The Revenue Division, Police Ranges, Subdivisions, Tehsils, and Sub Tehsil/Niabats shall continue to operate under the same conditions as before, it further clarifies.

Astore, Ghanche, Skardu, Shigar, Kharmang, Gilgit, Ghizer, Hunza, Nagar, and Diamer were the preceding ten districts.

The five Baltistan districts of Skardu, Shigar, Kharmang, Rondu, and Ghanche, as well as the four Gilgit districts, make up the 14 districts that make up Gilgit-Baltistan administratively.

The Diamer Division includes the districts of Gilgit, Ghizer, Hunza, and Nagar, as well as four of Diamer and Astore. The towns of Gilgit and Skardu serve as the main administrative hubs.

In April 2019, Gilgit-Chief Baltistan's Minister Hafeezur Rehman stated that two more districts were being split off from the Diamer district. He had previously said that the Deral Valley and the Tangir Valley in Diamer will be two districts and that a notification would be issued in May while speaking to a large audience in Chilas.

The governing party in GB did, however, decide to add two more districts by including Yaseen and Rondu in response to appeals from other regions of the country. Also, he stated that $50 billion will be granted in. Additionally, he stated that the next annual budget would include Rs50 billion for the creation of additional districts. He claimed that 400 people had jobs in the Diamer area, that a 200-bed hospital would be built there in seven months, and that Rs 1 billion would be allocated for the construction of a polo field in Chila.