Sudhanoti District
district of Azad Kashmir, Pakistan
Sudhanoti (also called Sudhnoti, Urdu: سدھنوتی) is one of the 10 districts of Pakistan-administered Azad Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region. The Sudhanoti District is bounded on the north and east by the Poonch District, on the south by the Kotli District, and on the west by the Rawalpindi District of Pakistan's Punjab Province. It is located 90 kilometres (56 mi) from Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan. It is connected with Rawalpindi and Islamabad via the Azad Pattan Road.
The district headquarters is the town of Pallandri. It lies at an elevation of 1,372 meters and is at a distance of 97 kilometers from Rawalpindi via the Azad Pattan Road. Pallandri is connected to Rawalakot by a 64-km metalled road.
Administrative divisions
The Sudhanoti District is divided into four tehsils:
Baloch Tehsil
Mang Tehsil
Pallandri Tehsil
Trarkhel Tehsil
History
Sudhnoti (now called Sudhanoti) was first established as a tehsil of the Poonch jagir by Raja Moti Singh, the ruler of Poonch in the second half of the 19th century. In the Dogra era, the tehsil of Sudhanoti was larger as it included much of the modern day Poonch district in Azad Kashmir.
Demographics
The population of Sudhanoti was recorded as 297,584 in the 2017 census.
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