the farm house on top

Upper Dir (Pashto: دیر بالا‎) is one of the 26 districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Dir is the district headquarters.

At the time of independence, Dir was a princely state ruled by Nawab Shah Jehan Khan. It was merged with Pakistan in 1969 and later on declared as a district in 1970. In 1996, it was bifurcated into Upper and Lower Dir districts. This district is situated in the northern part of Pakistan. It borders Chitral district and Afghanistan on the north and north west and Swat district to the east, and on the south by Lower Dir District.