Editing Gojal Tehsil (section)

{{Short description|Valley in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan}}
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| native_name        = {{Native name|ur|{{urd|وادی گوجال}}}}
| translation        = Vādi Gujāl<br>Gujāl Örönü 
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| photo_caption      = The [[Batura|Batura glacier]], one of the longest outside the Polar region, is in Gojal.
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'''Gojal''' ([[Wakhi language|Wakhi]]: {{lang|wbl|وادی گوجال}}, [[Kyrgyz language|Kyrgyz]]: {{lang|ky|گۉجال ۅرۅنۇ,
}}), also called '''Upper Hunza''', is situated in northwestern [[Pakistan]]. It borders [[China]] at the [[Khunjerab Pass]] and the [[Shimshal]] valley, and Afghanistan at the [[Chapursan]] valley. In 2019, Gojal Valley became the second Karachukar sub-division within the [[Hunza District]]. It is geographically the largest [[Subdivision of Pakistan|subdivision]] of [[Gilgit-Baltistan]].<ref name=Dawn>{{cite news|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1186568|url-status=dead|newspaper=Dawn newspaper|archive-date=13 April 2024|author=Syed Mehdi Bukhari|date=8 June 2015|title=Gojal: Where Pakistan begins|access-date=10 December 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240413135658/https://www.dawn.com/news/1186568}}</ref>

Gojal or Upper Hunza is composed of a number of large and small valleys sharing borders with Central Hunza to the south, China in the northeast, and [[Afghanistan]] in the northwest. Ainabad is the first village of Gojal. Except for the [[Shimshal Valley|Shimshal]], Misgar, and [[Chapursan]] valleys, all the villages of Gojal can be seen from the [[Karakorum Highway|Karakoram Highway]] (KKH), which passes through the tehsil and enters China at the [[Khunjerab Pass]]. The Gojal region has 20,000 Ismaili residents.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://simerg.com/2016/10/25/national-geographic-gojal-region-in-pakistan-where-20000-ismailis-live-is-nothing-like-youd-expect/ | title=National Geographic: Remote Gojal in N. Pakistan Where 20,000 Ismailis Live is Nothing Like You'd Expect| date=2016-10-25|access-date=10 December 2024}}</ref><ref name="Tarikh-i-Dawat Ismailia">{{cite book |last1=Abdullah Jan |first1=Abdullah Jan |title=Tarikh Dawat-i-Ismailia Shumali Elaqa Jat |date=2008 |publisher=Minrowa |location=Islamabad |edition=first}}</ref><ref name="Diverse History of Hunza">{{cite book |last1=Zafar Iqbal |first1=Zafar Iqbal |title=Diverse and Adventurous History of Hunza |date=2017 |publisher=North Books |location=Gilgit |edition=first}}</ref><ref name="Ehdi-Atiq-Hunza">{{cite book |author=Qudratullah Beg |title=Ehdi-Atiq-Hunza |date=1980 |publisher=H. Shafiqur Rehman |location=Baltit Hunza |edition=First}}</ref> Gojal is predominantly populated by the [[Wakhi people]].<ref>{{cite book|first1=Peter C.|last1=Backstrom|first2=Carla F.|last2=Radloff|editor-first=Clare F.|editor-last=O’Leary|title=Languages of Northern Areas|series=Sociolinguistic Survey of Northern Pakistan|volume=2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zRpiAAAAMAAJ|year=1992|publication-place=Quaid-i-Azam University|publisher=National Institute of Pakistani Studies|isbn=9698023127|citeseerx=10.1.1.860.8811|page= 39}}</ref>