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Neelum District
Neelum District (spelt also Neelam; Urdu: نیلم, Kashmiri: نيٖلَم) is a district of Pakistan-administered territory of Azad Kashmir, in the disputedKashmir region. It is the northernmost and the largest by land area of the ten districts of Azad Kashmir. Taking up the larger part of the Neelum Valley or the Kishanganga Valley, the district had a population of around 191,233 people as of the 2017 census. It was among the worst-hit areas of Pakistan during the 2005 Kashmir earthquake.