Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, formerly known as North West Frontier Province, is a province of Pakistan. Located in the northwestern region of the country, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is the fourth largest province... Wikipedia

  • Established, (as NWFP):  9 November 1901
  • Accession to Pakistan:  14 August 1947
  • Merged into West Pakistan:  1955
  • Restoration:  1 July 1970
  • Renamed:  15 April 2010
  • FATA Merger:  31 May 2018
  • Capital, and largest city:  Peshawar
  • Type:  Self-governing province subject to the federal government
  • Body:  Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Governor:  Faisal Karim Kundi
  • Chief Minister:  Ali Amin Gandapur
  • Chief Secretary:  Nadeem Aslam Chaudhry
  • Legislature:  Provincial Assembly
  • High Court:  Peshawar High Court
  • Area rank:  4th
  • Population (2023 census):  40,856,097
  • Rank:  3rd
  • Urban:  6,131,296 (15.01%)
  • Rural:  34,724,801 (84.99%)
  • Time zone:  PKT (UTC+05:00)
  • Area code(s):  9291
  • ISO 3166 code:  PK-KP
  • Official languages:  Urdu, English
  • HDI (2019):  0.529, low
  • Literacy rate (2020):  56.1%
  • Seats in National Assembly:  65
  • Seats in Provincial Assembly:  145
  • Divisions:  7
  • Districts:  38
  • Tehsils:  105
  • Union councils:  986
  • Website:  kp.gov.pk
  • Data source:  DuckDuckGo
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