Birot Kalan Union Council

Birote Kalan is one of the 51 union councils of Abbottabad District in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.[1]

Birote Kalan
Union Council
Birote is located in Abbottabad District
Country Pakistan
Province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
DistrictAbbottabad
Population
 • Total50,012

Etymology

The name of the union council Birote means "the land of wrestlers". The words khurd and kalan ("little" and "big") are administrative terminology dating back to Mughal times, to differentiate two areas with the same name, hence Birote Khurd means "little khurd". The words khurd ("small") and kalan ("big") are taken from Persian. (cf. Britannia major, "Greater Britain" and Britannia minor "Lesser Britain").

Location
Administrative subdivisions of Berote Kalan

Birote Kalan is located in the south eastern part of Abbottabad District and borders the Bagh District of Kashmir, and was consequently affected by the 2005 Pakistan earthquake as the epicentre was in Kashmir.

Subdivisions

The Union Council is subdivided into the following areas:

References
  1. Administrative Units of District Abbottabad Archived 3 April 2007 at the Wayback Machine

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