Pakistan
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Kohat District

Kohat

Kohat is a city in Pakistan that serves as the capital of the in province. With a population of over 220,000 people, the city is the fourth most populous in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the 35th most populous in Pakistan.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Kohat Cantt and PAF Base Kohat.

Railway station
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Kohat Cantonment Railway Station is located in Kohat, in the province of . The station serves as the terminus for the Khushalgarh–Kohat–Thal Railway line.

Aerodrome
is an airbase of the Pakistan Air Force located in Kohat, , . While it currently serves as a training base for PAF airmen, the facility was also used as a major operational base of the Royal Air Force during British colonial rule.

Kohat

Latitude
33.5967° or 33° 35′ 48″ north
Longitude
71.44° or 71° 26′ 24″ east
Population
229,000
Elevation
503 metres (1,650 feet)
IATA airport code
OHT
United Nations Location Code
PK OHT
Open location code
8J5HHCWQ+MX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 279783374
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1173491
Wiki­data ID
Q1195983
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Kohat” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كوهات”
  • Asturian: “Kohat”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kohat”
  • Belarusian: “Кохат”
  • Bengali: “কোহাত”
  • Catalan: “Kohat”
  • Cebuano: “Kohāt”
  • Chinese: “科哈特”
  • Danish: “Kohat”
  • Dutch: “Kohat”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كوهات”
  • Esperanto: “Kohat”
  • Finnish: “Kohat”
  • French: “Kohat”
  • Georgian: “კოჰატი”
  • German: “Kohat”
  • Greek: “Κοχάτ”
  • Gujarati: “કોહાત”
  • Hebrew: “כוהאת”
  • Hindi: “कोहट”
  • Hindi: “कोहाट”
  • Indonesian: “Kohat”
  • Italian: “Kohat”
  • Japanese: “コハート”
  • Japanese: “コハト”
  • Kannada: “ಕೊಹಾತ್”
  • Kannada: “ಕೋಹಟ್”
  • Korean: “코하트”
  • Latvian: “Kohata”
  • Lithuanian: “Kochatas”
  • Maithili: “कोहट शहर”
  • Malay: “Kohat”
  • Marathi: “कोहाट”
  • Nepali: “कोहट शहर”
  • Nepali: “कोहाट”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kohat”
  • Norwegian: “Kohat”
  • Persian: “کوهات، پاکستان”
  • Persian: “کوهات”
  • Polish: “Kohat”
  • Portuguese: “Kohat”
  • Pushto: “کوهاټ”
  • Russian: “Кохат”
  • Sindhi: “ڪوهاٽ”
  • Sindhi: “ڪوھاٽ”
  • Sinhala: “කොහට්”
  • Slovenian: “Kohat”
  • Spanish: “Kohat”
  • Swedish: “Kohat”
  • Tamil: “கோஹட்”
  • Telugu: “కొహట్”
  • Thai: “โกหัต”
  • Thai: “โคแฮท”
  • Turkish: “Kohat”
  • Ukrainian: “Когат”
  • Ukrainian: “Кохат”
  • Urdu: “کوہاٹ”
  • Vietnamese: “Kohat”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kohat”
  • Western Panjabi: “کوہاٹ”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Kohat”. Photo: Aftabbanoori, CC BY-SA 4.0.