Charsadda
Sign in to saveCharsadda (; ; ; ) is a town and headquarters of Charsadda District, in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Located in the Valley of Peshawar, Charsadda lies about from the provincial capital of Peshawar at an altitude of .
Weather now
cached 152h ago40°clear sky
8% 3.1 m/s OpenWeatherMap
7-day forecast
via Open-Meteo
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Charsadda
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Bacha Khan Square In Charsadda.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Bacha Khan chowk
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Pakistan#Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- Settlement.pushpin_relief
- yes
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Pakistan
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Charsadda
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Tehsil
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Country
- Pakistan
- Located in
- Charsadda District
- Population
- +105414
- Elevation
- +300
- Capital of
- Charsadda District
- Image
- Bacha Khan Square In Charsadda.jpg
Show 1 more fact
- P12749
- Actinopodidae
via Wikidata · CC0
Article
13 sectionsContents
- Name
- History
- Demographics
- Population
- Religion
- Rivers
- Administration
- Education
- Cemetery
- Notable people
- See also
- Notes
- References
Charsadda (; ; ; ) is a town and headquarters of Charsadda District, in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Located in the Valley of Peshawar, Charsadda lies about from the provincial capital of Peshawar at an altitude of .
==Name== The name Chārsadda means "four roads", from the words chār ("four") and sadda ("road"). An alternate explanation, given by Munshi Gopaldas in the 1874 Tawarikh-i Peshawar, is that the city was named after one of the sons of the Pashtun conqueror Ilyas Khan Muhammadzai.