Havelian
Sign in to saveHavelian ( ) is the second largest municipality in the Abbottabad District, in the Hazara Division, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It serves as the headquarters for Havelian Tehsil. The word literally translates into English as "mansions". The outskirts of the city are also home to one of the largest ordnance factories of Pakistan, Pakistan Ordnance Factories Havelian. An ordnance depot also exists in the vicinity of the city and the factory.
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- Locality
- حویلیاں
- Region
- خیبر پختونخوا
- Country
- پاکستان
- Population
- 40,481
- Timezone
- Asia/Karachi
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Havelian
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Havelian Village seen from the other bank of the Dor River.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Panorama of Havelian Village from the other bank of the Dor
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa#Pakistan
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Pakistan
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Abbottabad
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Tehsil
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Havelian Tehsil
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 12.5
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2023
- Settlement.population_total
- 37,509
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Pakistan
- Located in
- Havelian Tehsil
- Capital of
- Havelian Tehsil
- Image
- Havelian Village seen from the other bank of the Dor River.jpg
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- postal code
- 22500
- Commons category
- Havelian
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- History
- Geography
- Demographics
- Population
- Transport<!--'Havelian Dry Port' redirects here-->
- Railway
- References
- External links
Havelian ( ) is the second largest municipality in the Abbottabad District, in the Hazara Division, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It serves as the headquarters for Havelian Tehsil. The word literally translates into English as "mansions". The outskirts of the city are also home to one of the largest ordnance factories of Pakistan, Pakistan Ordnance Factories Havelian. An ordnance depot also exists in the vicinity of the city and the factory.
==History== In the 1890s Havelian, referred to as Huveliyan, was mentioned by British geologist Charles Stewart Middlemiss when he was doing a survey of the area as part of his geological fieldwork in Hazara for the colonial era Geological Survey of India, he described it as one of a "few large villages" that lay along the course of the Dore river.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Havelian” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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