Districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Districts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are administrative divisions of the province in which their boundaries are drawn. The province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is divided into 26 districts. Peshawar is the provincial capital and largest city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The northern districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (i.e. districts of Malakand Division and Hazara Division) are situated in hilly areas and their geography is similar to Azad Kashmir or Gilgit-Baltistan. As one moves further away from the foothills of the Himalaya and Karakoram ranges, the climate changes from the humid subtropical climate of the foothills to the typically arid climate of Sindh, Balochistan and south Punjab.

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Sr. No.	District	Headquarters	Area (km²)	Population (1998)	Density (people/km²)	Division
1	Abbottabad	Abbottabad	1,967	880,666	448	Hazara
2	Bannu	Bannu	1,227	675,667	551	Bannu
3	Battagram	Battagram	1,301	307,278	236	Hazara
4	Buner	Daggar	1,865	506,048	271	Malakand
5	Charsadda	Charsadda	996	1,022,364	1,026	Peshawar
6	Chitral	Chitral	14,850	318,689	21	Malakand
7	Dera Ismail Khan	Dera Ismail Khan	7,326	852,995	116	Dera Ismail Khan
8	Hangu	Hangu	1,597	614,529	385	Kohat
9	Haripur	Haripur	1,725	692,228	401	Hazara
10	Karak	Karak	3,372	430,796	128	Kohat
11	Kohat	Kohat	2,545	562,644	221	Kohat
12	Upper Kohistan	Dassu	7,492	472,570	63	Hazara
13	Lakki Marwat	Lakki Marwat	3,164	490,025	155	Bannu
14	Lower Dir	Timergara	1,582	717,649	454	Malakand
15	Malakand	Batkhela	952	452,291	475	Malakand
16	Mansehra	Mansehra	4,579	1,152,839	252	Hazara
17	Mardan	Mardan	1,632	1,460,100	895	Mardan
18	Nowshera	Nowshera	1,748	874,373	500	Peshawar
19	Peshawar	Peshawar	1,257	2,019,118	1,606	Peshawar
20	Shangla	Alpuri	1,586	434,563	274	Malakand
21	Swabi	Swabi	1,543	1,026,804	665	Mardan
22	Swat	Saidu Sharif	5,337	1,257,602	290	Malakand
23	Tank	Tank	1,679	238,216	142	Dera Ismail Khan
24	Upper Dir	Dir	3,699	575,858	156	Malakand
25	Tor Ghar	Tor Ghar	497	185,000	372	Hazara
26	Lower Kohistan	Pattan	7,492	472,570	63	Hazara

Note: In this map, the Upper and Lower Kohistan District both are shown as one district on #12 of map. Tor Ghar is shown within Manshera District on #16.