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Charsadda

Also known as The City of Lotus

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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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

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Wikidata facts

Population: 105414
Elevation: 300
Image: Bacha Khan Square In Charsadda.jpg

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Commons category: Charsadda
native label: چارسڈّہ
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Name
History
Demographics
Population
Religion
Rivers
Administration
Education
Cemetery
Notable people
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==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.