Pangi Valley

Pangi Valley (Killar)
Tehsil
Clockwise from top left: View of the valley, Chandrabhaga River, A meadow, Sach Pass, Shiva Peak
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Coordinates: 33°05′02″N 76°24′25″E / 33.084014°N 76.406980°E / 33.084014; 76.406980
Country	India
State	Himachal Pradesh
District	Chamba
Government
• Body	Government of Himachal Pradesh
• Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly	Janak Raj
• Member of parliament	Kangana Ranaut
Area
• Total	1,601 km2 (618 sq mi)
Population  (2011)
• Total	18,868
• Density	12/km2 (31/sq mi)
Demonym	pangwal
Languages
• Official	Hindi
• local	Pangwali
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	176323
Vehicle registration	HP 45

Pangi is a tehsil of Chamba, Himachal Pradesh, India. According to 2011 census of India Pangi valley has a total population of 18868. It is an administrative subdivision of the Chamba district situated in the northern extreme of the state. Sandwiched between two mighty mountain ranges, the zanskar range in the North and the Pir Panjal Range in the South it is an isolated valley.^[1] In southern side it shares boundaries with Lahaul and Spiti and in eastern side with Jammu and Kashmir. Chandrabhaga cuts across the terrain in a deep narrow gorge before entering Doda region of Jammu and Kashmir. With its deep river gorges and barren mountain peaks, it offers a wide range of scenery and vegetation.^[2] Till recently, this valley was the remotest Tribal area of Himachal Pradesh where road access to the rest of the state was established only in the mid 1990s. So forbidding was this snowy range regarded in former times of the Princely regime, that every State official proceeding to Pangi on duty was granted a special allowance, under the head of ‘‘funeral expenses”, as his return, alive or dead, was not taken at all to be a matter of certainty or even of high expectation.^{[3] [4][5]}