| Official Name: | Area of Upper Pakhli |
| Balakot Tehsil | |
| Native Name: | Urdu: {{nq|تحصیل بالاکوٹ Pushto; Pashto: {{script/Arabic|بالاکوټ تحصیل |
| Native Name Lang: | ur |
| Settlement Type: | Tehsil |
| Blank Emblem Size: | 100px |
| Blank Emblem Type: | Logo |
| Mapsize: | 280px |
| Map Caption1: | Location within Pakistan |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: |  Pakistan |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Type2: | District |
| Subdivision Name2: | Mansehra |
| Population Total: | 273,089 |
| Population As Of: | 2017 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Leader Title: | Chairman |
| Leader Name: | Syed Ibrahim Ahmad |
| Blank Name Sec1: | Number of towns |
| Blank Info Sec1: | 1 |
| Blank Name Sec2: | Number of Union Councils |
| Blank Info Sec2: | 16 |
| Timezone1: | PST |
| Utc Offset1: | +5 |
| Subdivision Type3: | Region |
| Subdivision Name3: | Upper Pakhli |
| Leader Party: | PML(N) |
Balakot Tehsil (Urdu: {{nq|تحصیل بالاکوٹ) is an administrative subdivision (tehsil) of Mansehra District in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.[2] Balakot is the main city of this area. It was one of the towns that was devastated in the 2005 Kashmir earthquake[3] with around 80% of the buildings there destroyed. Villages were badly affected and landslides cut off thousands of people from Balakot where relief workers had been helping the survivors.[4]
Its population as of 2017 was .[1] The major spoken language of the tehsil is Hindko.
Balakot Tehsil consists of 12 Union Councils:[5]