States or Territories

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Province

Citation Formats

General Reference

Geography Atlas. "Khyber Pakhtunkhwa." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://geography.interactiveatlas.org/states/khyber-pakhtunkhwa.

APA Style

Geography Atlas. (n.d.). Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://geography.interactiveatlas.org/states/khyber-pakhtunkhwa

BibTeX

@misc{geographyatlas-khyber-pakhtunkhwa,
  author = {Geography Atlas},
  title = {Khyber Pakhtunkhwa},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://geography.interactiveatlas.org/states/khyber-pakhtunkhwa},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, commonly abbreviated KP or KPK and formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province, is a province of Pakistan. Its capital is Peshawar, and the 2023 census recorded a population of 40,856,097 across an area of 101,741 square kilometers.

Facts

Capital

Peshawar 1

Population

40,856,097 1

2023 census figure from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's own Wikipedia infobox.

Population Estimate Year

2023 1

Area (sq km)

101,741 1

Latitude

34 degrees north 1

Longitude

71.32 degrees east 1

Cross-Tradition Connections

Associated With

Pakistan

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is a province of Pakistan.

Source Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Wikipedia)

Has Capital

Peshawar

Peshawar is the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Source Peshawar (Wikipedia)

On Continent

Asia

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's own infobox names Pakistan as its country (checked live this session); Pakistan is on-continent Asia (its own live edge, content.EntityRelationship, checked this session), so Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is on-continent Asia.

Source Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Wikipedia)

Sources

1. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Wikipedia)

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