Mingora
Sign in to saveMingora (, Romanised: Minga Wara) is a city in the Swat District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Located on the Swat River, it is the 3rd largest city in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the 26th largest in Pakistan. Mingora is the largest city and the epicenter of social, cultural, and economic activities in Malakand Division, and also the largest in the northern part of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Mingora
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Sunset over the Mingora City, Swat Valley, Pakistan.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 280px
- Settlement.image_caption
- View of Mingora
- Settlement.mapsize
- 150 px
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa#Pakistan
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- top
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Division
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Malakand
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Swat
- Settlement.subdivision_type4
- Tehsil
- Settlement.subdivision_name4
- Babuzai
- Settlement.population_total
- 361,112
- Settlement.total_type
- City
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Mingora (, Romanised: Minga Wara) is a city in the Swat District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Located on the Swat River, it is the 3rd largest city in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the 26th largest in Pakistan. Mingora is the largest city and the epicenter of social, cultural, and economic activities in Malakand Division, and also the largest in the northern part of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
==History== The area around Mingora has long been inhabited. At Loe Banr, Butkara II and Matalai, Italian archaeologists unearthed 475 Indo-Aryan graves dated between 1520 and 170 BC and two horse skeletons. On the opposite side of the River Swat at Aligrama, near the Saidu Sharif airport, a site of Gandhara grave culture was discovered by Italian archaeologists and dated to 1000 BC.