Peshawar
Peshawar is a relatively prosperous frontier city in Pakistan near the Pakistan-Afghan border, which gives it a distinct Afghan flavour. Peshawar is the capital and largest city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.Photo: Arsukhan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Muhābat Khān Masjid
Photo: Zakksez, Public domain.
The Mahabat Khan Mosque, sometimes spelt Mohabbat Khan Mosque, is a 17th-century Mughal-era mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan.
Gor Khatri
Photo: Tan Afridi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gor Khatri is an archeological site located in Peshawar, Pakistan.
Peshawar
- Type: City with 1,970,000 residents
- Description: capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan
- Categories: capital city, administrative territorial entity, big city and locality
- Location: Peshawar District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, South Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.004° or 34° 0' 14" northLongitude
71.5509° or 71° 33' 3" eastPopulation
1,970,000Elevation
340 metres (1,115 feet)IATA airport code
PEWUnited Nations Location Code
PK PEWOpen Location Code
8J6H2H32+H8OpenStreetMap ID
node 294107164OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1168197Wikidata ID
Q1113311Peshawar Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afar: Peshovar
- Afrikaans: Pesjawar
- Arabic: Peshawar
- Arabic: بيشاور
- Armenian: Փեշավար
- Asturian: Peshawar
- Awadhi: पेशावर
- Azerbaijani: Pişəvər
- Basque: Peshawar
- Belarusian: Пешавар
- Belarusian: Пэшавар
- Bengali: পেশাওয়ার
- Breton: Peshawar
- Bulgarian: Пешавар
- Catalan: Peshawar
- Cebuano: Peshawar
- Chechen: Пешавар
- Chinese: 佩沙華
- Chinese: 柏夏瓦
- Chinese: 白夏瓦
- Chinese: 白沙瓦
- Croatian: Pešavar
- Czech: Pešávar
- Czech: Péšávar
- Danish: Peshawar
- Dimli (individual language): Peşaver
- Dutch: Pesjawar
- Egyptian Arabic: بيشاور
- Egyptian Arabic: پيشاور
- English: Pekhawar
- English: Peshawur
- Esperanto: Peŝavaro
- Estonian: Peshawar
- Finnish: Peshawar
- Finnish: Peshāwar
- French: Peshawar
- Galician: Peshawar
- Georgian: პეშავარი
- German: Peschawar
- Greek: Πεσαβάρ
- Gujarati: પેશાવર
- Hebrew: פשאוור
- Hebrew: פשוואר
- Hindi: पेशावर
- Hungarian: Pesavar
- Ido: Peshawar
- Indonesian: Peshawar
- Irish: Peshawar
- Italian: Peshawar
- Japanese: ペシャワー
- Japanese: ペシャーワル
- Javanese: Peshawar
- Kalaallisut: Peshawar
- Kannada: ಪೆಶಾವರ್
- Kannada: ಪೇಶಾವರ್
- Kara-Kalpak: Pekhawar
- Kara-Kalpak: Peshavar
- Kara-Kalpak: Peshawar
- Kara-Kalpak: Peshawur
- Kara-Kalpak: Peshovar
- Kashmiri: پِشاوَر
- Kazakh: Пешавар
- Kirghiz: Пешавар
- Korean: 페샤와르
- Latin: Peshawar
- Latvian: Pešāvara
- Lithuanian: Pešavaras
- Low German: Peschawar
- Luxembourgish: Peshawar
- Mainfränkisch: Peschawar
- Malay: Peshawar
- Malayalam: പെഷവാർ
- Maori: Peshawar
- Marathi: पेशावर
- Mazanderani: پیشاور
- Mingrelian: პეშავარი
- Nepali: पेशावर
- Norwegian: Peshawar
- Norwegian Bokmål: Peshawar
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Peshawar
- Oriya: ପେଶାବର
- Ossetian: Пешавар
- Panjabi: ਪਿਸ਼ੌਰ
- Panjabi: ਪੇਸ਼ਾਵਰ
- Persian: پیشاور
- Polish: Peszawar
- Portuguese: Peshawar
- Portuguese: Pexauar
- Pushto: پېښور
- Romanian: Peshawar
- Russian: Пешавар
- Scots: Peshawar
- Serbian: Пешавар
- Serbo-Croatian: Peshawar
- Sicilian: Peshawar
- Silesian: Peszawar
- Sindhi: پشاور
- Sinhala: පෙෂවෝර්
- Slovak: Pešávar
- Slovenian: Pešavar
- Spanish: Peshawar
- Swedish: Peshawar
- Tagalog: Peshawar
- Tajik: Пешовар
- Tamil: பெசாவர்
- Tamil: பெஷாவர்
- Tatar: Пишавәр
- Telugu: పెషావర్
- Thai: เปศวาร์
- Turkish: Peşaver
- Uighur: پېشاۋار
- Ukrainian: Пешавар
- Urdu: پشاور
- Uzbek: Peshovar
- Venetian: Peshawar
- Vietnamese: Peshawar
- Waray (Philippines): Peshawar
- Welsh: Peshawar
- Western Panjabi: پشاور
- Wu Chinese: 白沙瓦
- Yue Chinese: 佩沙華
- Peşawer
Other Places Named Peshawar
Localities in the Area
- Kotla Mohsin KhanSuburb
- Mohallah Quwwatul IslamNeighbourhood
- Mohallah SardananNeighbourhood
- Lakkar MandiNeighbourhood
- Mohallah Joga ShahNeighbourhood
Popular Destinations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
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