District Attock Topography

Attock district was constituted in 1904 by taking Talagang Tehsil from Jhelum district and Pindigheb, Fatehjang and Attock tehsils from Rawalpindi district. The district was named as Campbellpur after the name of Sir Campbell who laid foundation stone of Campbellpur City in 1908 a few kilometres away on south-east of Attock Khurd Town.

The name Attock was again given to it in 1978. District Attock is bounded on the north by Swabi and Haripur districts of N.W.F.P., on the East by Rawalpindi, on the South by Chakwal district, on the South-West by Mianwali district, in the West by Kohat district and on North-west by Nowshera district of N.W.F.P. The Indus River flows along the western boundary of the district for about 130 Kilometers. It divides Attock district from the three bordering districts of N.W.F.P. Attock district is spread over an area of 6,856.7 Square Kilometers having population of 1,264,564 and comprising of following 6 tehsils, 440 villages, 72 Union Councils and 3 Cantt areas:

1. Attock
2. Fateh Jang
3. Hassan Abdal
4. Hazro
5. Jand
6. Pindi Gheb

District Attock is a combination of hills and Plains. The area in the north-west and south is hilly on the north hills are southern extension of the hills of HariPur district. In the middle, along its western boundary are the famous Kala Chitta hills. This range is almost 50 Km and attains a greatest height of more than 1,000 m.The range is covered with forest. The Khairee Moorat hills range cuts boundary in Tehsil Fateh Jang.The district is divided in two portions i.e. one to north and north west of the Kala Chitta range and the other to the south and east of it. The former includes Attock, Hazro and Hassanabdal Tehsils and latter Fateh Jang, Pindigheb and part of Tehsil Jand.