Azad Kashmir means "Free Kashmir" in Urdu, Pakistan's national language. It covers an area of 13,300 km² (5134 miles²), with its capital at Muzaffarabad, and has an estimated population of over 3 million people in the district.

The region is extremely mountainous and includes a significant part of the Himalaya, but does not include Nanga Parbat, the world's seventh highest mountain, which falls within the "Northern Areas".

After the partition of India in 1947 and the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947, ... (more)