Hassan Khel Tehsil | |
Native Name: | Urdu: {{nq|تحصیل حسن خیل Pushto; Pashto: {{script/Arabic|حسن خېل تحصیل |
Other Name: | Frontier Region Peshawar |
Settlement Type: | Tehsil of Pakistan |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Seat: | Kalakhel |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Population As Of: | 2017 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 64,691 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Hassan Khel Tehsil is an administrative subdivision (tehsil) of Peshawar District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. This subdivision borders Nowshera District to the east and Kohat Subdivision to the south.
The main settlement in Peshawar division is Kalakhel.
Prior to 2018, this administrative subdivision was known as Peshawar Subdivision, and formerly also known as Frontier Region Peshawar was a subdivision of Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. The region was named after Peshawar District which lies to the north and west.[2]
The region is hilly, with average heights of over 1000m (3,000feet) above sea level.[2]
The population in 1998 was .[3] The predominant first language is Pashto, spoken by 99.2% of the inhabitants of the district.[3]
The main and only tribe of FR Peshawar is the sub-tribe Adam Khel of Afridis. The Afridi tribe is divided into 8 sub-tribes. Details has given below:-