Parachinar
Parachinar is a city and the capital of the Kurram District in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Parachinar, situated on the west of Peshawar, juts into the Paktia, Logar and Nangarhar provinces of Afghanistan.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 5,500 residents
- Description: city in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
- Also known as: “Parachiner”, “Pāṛačinār”, “Totkai (old name)”, and “Tutki”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Parachinar Airport.
Parachinar Airport
Aerodrome
Parachinar Airport is a defunct airport located in Parachinar, in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Located at about a 25-minute drive from the centre of Parachinar, it used to be the only airport in the former FATA region that was served by any passenger airline, namely Pakistan International Airlines.
Parachinar
- Category: locality
- Location: Kurram District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
33.89679° or 33° 53′ 49″ northLongitude
70.10006° or 70° 6′ 0″ eastPopulation
5,500Elevation
1,743 metres (5,719 feet)IATA airport code
PAJOpen location code
8J5GV4W2+P2OpenStreetMap ID
node 279827441OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Parachinar” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “باراتشينار”
- Asturian: “Parachinar”
- Bengali: “পারাচিনার”
- Catalan: “Parachinar”
- Chinese: “巴勒吉納爾”
- Chinese: “巴勒吉纳尔”
- Chinese: “巴拉齊納”
- Chinese: “帕拉奇納爾”
- Chinese: “帕拉契納”
- Chinese: “帕拉契纳”
- Chinese: “帕拉奚納”
- Danish: “Parachinar”
- Dutch: “Parachinar”
- Egyptian Arabic: “باراتشينار”
- Egyptian Arabic: “باراچينار”
- Egyptian Arabic: “پاراچينار”
- Finnish: “Parachinar”
- French: “Parachinar”
- German: “Parachinar”
- Greek: “Παρατσινάρ”
- Gujarati: “પરાચિનાર”
- Hindi: “पराचिनर”
- Hindi: “पाड़ा चिनार”
- Hindi: “पाराचिनार”
- Indonesian: “Parachinar”
- Italian: “Parachinar”
- Japanese: “パラチナー”
- Japanese: “パラチナル”
- Kannada: “ಪ್ಯಾರಾಚಾರ್ನರ್”
- Korean: “파라치나”
- Latvian: “Paračinara”
- Lithuanian: “Paračinaras”
- Malay: “Parachinar”
- Marathi: “पराचिनर”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Parachinar”
- Panjabi: “ਪਾਰਾਚਿਨਾਰ”
- Persian: “پاراچنار”
- Persian: “درگیری های پاراچنار”
- Polish: “Parachinar”
- Portuguese: “Parachinar”
- Pushto: “پاړاچنار”
- Pushto: “پاړه چنار”
- Russian: “Парачинар”
- Sinhala: “පරචිනර්”
- Slovenian: “Parachinar”
- Spanish: “Parachinar”
- Swedish: “Parachinar”
- Tamil: “பரசினார்”
- Telugu: “పరచినార్”
- Thai: “ปาราชินาร์”
- Turkish: “Paraçınar”
- Ukrainian: “Парачінар”
- Urdu: “پارا چنار”
- Urdu: “پاراچنار”
- Urdu: “پارہ چنار”
- Urdu: “پاڑاچنار”
- Urdu: “پاڑہ چنار”
- Vietnamese: “Parachinar”
- Western Panjabi: “Pārachinār”
- Western Panjabi: “پاراچنار”
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