Charsadda
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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 .
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Place details
- Locality
- چارسدہ
- Region
- خیبر پختونخوا
- Country
- پاکستان
- Population
- 120,170
- Timezone
- Asia/Karachi
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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
- Charsadda
- Settlement.government_type
- Tehsil-council
- Settlement.leader_title
- Chairman
- Settlement.leader_name
- Abdul Rauf
- Settlement.leader_party
- JUI-F
- Settlement.population_total
- 120,170
via Wikipedia infobox
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
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- Commons category
- Charsadda
- native label
- چارسڈّہ
- P12749
- Actinopodidae
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Charsadda” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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