Places and Areas
- Dir, Pakistan, a town in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan.
- Dir (princely state), a former princely state in the North-West Frontier Province, incorporated into Pakistan in 1969.
- Dir District in the North West Frontier Province, in 1996 split into two districts:
- Upper Dir, with its headquarters in Dir city, and
- Lower Dir, with its headquarters in Timargara.
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