Kohat

Kohat is a city in Pakistan that serves as the headquarters of Kohat District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and is the namesake and largest city of Kohat Division. It is centred on a British-era fort, various bazaars and a military cantonment, which the British established in 1874. Local lore says that an ancient Buddhist king named Raja Kohat founded it, and surveys of the Kohat and Hangu districts recorded sites dating to the 1st to 5th centuries CE. The first historical record of the city comes from the Baburnama, the autobiography of the Mughal emperor Babur. Kohat lies at an altitude of 489 metres and has a hot semi-arid climate, and a tunnel of 1.9 kilometres completed in 2004 connects the southern districts of the province to Peshawar.