Hattiān Bāla, Pakistan
ہٹیاں بالا
Hattiān Bāla is a town of 11,880 people in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan.
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About Hattiān Bāla
Hattian Bala (Urdu: ہٹیاں بالا), or just Hattian (Urdu: ہٹیاں), is a tehsil and the district headquarters of Hattian Bala District in Azad Kashmir, a part of Kashmir administered by Pakistan. As of the 2017 Pakistani census, the population of Hattian Bala was 161,424.
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History
An earthquake in Kashmir on 8 October 2005 triggered a landslide in Hattian Bala that split a lake in two, destroyed a village, and killed around 1,000 people. It was the largest landslide caused by the earthquake at a volume of 68 million cubic metres, a length of 2.6 kilometres, and a thickness of 63 metres. The dam created by the debris from the landslide gave way on 9 February 2010, releasing 36 million cubic metres of water.
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Getting there and nearby towns
Muzaffarabad Airport (MFG) is the nearest airport with scheduled flights listed in OpenStreetMap, 28 km away.
- Garhi Dupatta 12 km northwest, about 12 min by car
- Dhirkot 21 km southwest, about 21 min by car
- Bāgh 21 km south, about 21 min by car
- Nowangabra 24 km northeast, about 24 min by car
- Tangdhār 28 km northeast, about 28 min by car
- Muzaffarābād 33 km northwest, about 33 min by car
- Murree 43 km southwest, about 43 min by car
- Saidpur 78 km southwest, about 1 h 15 min by car
- Islamabad 81 km southwest, about 1 h 15 min by car
- Rawalpindi 90 km southwest, about 1 h 30 min by car
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Photo credits
- View over Hattian Bala, Marym1718, CC BY 4.0
- Arang khel school, Umairbhopal, CC BY-SA 3.0
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