Lower Dir (Pashto: لر دیر, Urdu: دیر زیریں) is one of the 34 districts in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Timergara city is the district headquarters and largest city, while the second largest city is Chakdara. It is a bordering on one side with Bajaur and on the other side with Swat valley and district Malakand with upper part extending Dir Upper connecting Chitral Valley on Northern side.
At the time of independence, Dir was a princely state ruled by Nawab Shah Jehan Khan. It was merged in Pakistan in 1969 and later on declared a district in 1970. The district was formed in 1996, when the district of Dir was divided into Upper Dir and Lower Dir. The District borders with Swat District on its East, Afghanistan on its West, Upper Dir and Chitral on its North & north-west respectively and Malakand and Bajaur Agency on its South.
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