Federally Admeenistered Tribal Areas

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Federally Admeenistered Tribal Areas

(Pashto: مرکزي قبایلي سیمې‎)
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Location o the Federally Admeenistered Tribal Areas
Location o the Federally Admeenistered Tribal Areas
Coordinates: 33°0′0″N 70°10′0″E / 33.00000°N 70.16667°E / 33.00000; 70.16667
KintraPakistan
Admeenistrative unitFederal territory
Components7 Agencies
6 Frontier Regions
Admeenistrative centrePeshawar
Govrenment
 • Govrenor o Khyber-PakhtunkhwaSyed Masood Kausar
Area
 • Total27220 km2 (10,510 sq mi)
Population
 (1998)[1][2]
 • Total3,176,331
 • Density120/km2 (300/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+5 (PST)
Websitehttp://www.fata.gov.pk/

The Federally Admeenistered Tribal Areas (FATA) (Pashto: مرکزي قبایلي سیمې‎) are a semi-autonomous tribal region in the northwast o Pakistan, lyin atween the province o Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan, an the neighboring kintra o Afghanistan. The FATA comprise seiven Agencies (tribal destricts) an sax FRs(Frontier regions). The territory is amaist exclusively inhabitit bi Pashtun tribes which are predominantly Sunni Muslims bi faith.

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  1. "Area, Population, Density and Urban/Rural Proportion by Administrative Units". Population Census Organization, Government of Pakistan. Archived frae the original on 22 December 2010. Retrieved 11 Apryle 2010.
  2. "Population". FATA Secretariat. Archived frae the original on 3 Mairch 2009. Retrieved 11 Apryle 2010.

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