Hunza (princely state)

Hunza, also known as Kanjut, is a princely state in a subsidiary alliance with British India from 1892 to August 1947, for three months is unaligned, and then from November 1947 until 1974 is a princely state of Pakistan.

Hunza covers territory now forming the northernmost part of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan.

The princely state borders the Gilgit Agency to the south, the former princely state of Nagar to the east, Xinjiang, China to the northeast and Afghanistan to the northwest.

The state capital is Baltit (also known as Karimabad).

The princely state of Hunza now is the Aliabad tehsil of Hunza–Nagar District in Pakistan.