Kohistan District, Pakistan
Query URLs
https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/place/32436
- Note
- "Kohistan (Urdu: کوہستان, Pashto: اباسين کوهستان; "Land of Mountains"), also called Abasin Kohistan or Indus Kohistan, was an administrative district within Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province in Pakistan, covering an area of 7,492 square kilometres (2,893 sq mi); it had a population of 472,570 at the 1998 Census. Geographically, Kohistan stretches from the border with Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan in the east and north to Swat and Shangla in the west, and Mansehra and Battagram District in the south.
In 2014, the government bifurcated Kohistan District into Upper Kohistan and Lower Kohistan, carving out one more administrative unit." - (en.wikipedia.org 23.09.2020) - Latitude
- 35.25
- Longitude
- 73.5
- Time zone
- Asia/Karachi
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