Some parts of Azad Kashmir are off-limits to tourists, especially the 15-mile-wide buffer zone along the Line of Control that separates the state from the neighbouring Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. Large portions of Azad Kashmir were devastated in the October 2005 earthquake, which leveled entire villages and towns and killed over 75,000 people. Azad Jammu and Kashmir has an area of 13,297 km² (5,134 mi²). The inhabitants of this region are Kashmiri citizens of ethnic Punjabi origin {Mirpur} and ethnic Kashmiri Muslims. About 4 million people live there.
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