Bagh City () is the chief town and district headquarters of
Bagh District
Bagh District () is a district of Pakistan-administered Azad Kashmir in the Kashmir#Dispute, disputed Kashmir region. The application of the term "administered" to the various regions of Kashmir and a mention of the Kashmir dispute is supported ...
, in
Azad Kashmir
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Pakistan
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. The town is situated on the confluence of two
nullah
A nullah or nala (Hindustani language, Hindustani or "nallah" in Punjabi language, Punjabi) is an 'arm of the sea', stream, or watercourse, a steep narrow valley. Like the wadi of the Arabs, the nullah is characteristic of mountainous or hilly co ...
s (streams), Malwani and Mahl (ماہلوانی اور ماہل) at a distance of 93 km from
Muzaffarabad.
2005 earthquake
On 8 October 2005, Bagh was hit by a devastating earthquake that killed 8,500 people, which represented 10% of the population.
World Bank – ''Pakistan Earthquake, A Year After''
/ref> Most of the victims were children attending school who died when the school buildings collapsed. The worst hit institutes were a school named Spring Field Children academy (where 300 plus children died in junior campus), the boys' degree college and girls' degree college Bagh. Many lives could have been saved if the rescue equipment was available. The entire city was destroyed and was rebuilt with the help of government.
Geography
Bagh is located 80 kilometres from Muzaffarabad, the capital city 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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. It is 160 kilometres from Islamabad
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, the capital of Pakistan.[Bagh](_blank)
Pakistani Tourism
Topographically, the district is quite mountainous with lush green pine forests on the mountain slopes leading into the valleys. The altitude of Bagh Valley is 3405 feet (1038m). Major peaks near Bagh include Kobra Peak. Ganga Choti
Ganga Choti () is a mountain, peak located in Bagh District of Azad Kashmir, Pakistan. Located at a height of , it is a part of the Pir Panjal Range of the Lower Himalayan Range, Lower Himalayas. Geographically, it is located between the Union cou ...
and Lasdana are the highest peaks of Bagh. Whereas Rawàlakot and Forward Khauta are two cities connected to Bagh as all lies in sudnothi division of Kashmir.
See also
* Kharal Abbasian
References
External links
Bagh Azad Jammu and Kashmir official portalAlif Ailaan District Education Rankings
Populated places in Bagh District
Tehsils of Bagh District
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