Mandi is a village in the
Dadyal
Dadyal ( ur, ڈڈیال) is a tehsil in Mirpur district, located in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan. It is home to roughly 84 villages.
Administration
The Dadyal tehsil is divided into many villages. Some of them include
* Arra Jattan
* Ankar ...
tehsil of
Mirpur District
The Mirpur District ( ur, ) is one of the 10 districts of Pakistan's dependent territory of Azad Kashmir. The Mirpur District is bounded on the north by the Kotli District, on the east by the Bhimber District, on the south by the Gujrat Dis ...
of
Azad Kashmir
Azad Jammu and Kashmir (; ), abbreviated as AJK and colloquially referred to as simply Azad Kashmir, is a region administered by Pakistan as a nominally self-governing entitySee:
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* and constituting the western portion of the larger Ka ...
,
Pakistan
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.
Demography
According to the 1998 census of Pakistan, its population was 160. The village has since expanded.
History
Like many villages in the Mirpur region, many of its residents have emigrated to the
United Kingdom
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. Most of the population belongs to the
Gujjar
Gurjar or Gujjar (also transliterated as ''Gujar, Gurjara and Gujjer'') is an ethnic nomadic, agricultural and pastoral community, spread mainly in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, divided internally into various clan groups. They were tradit ...
tribe.
References
Populated places in Mirpur District
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