Khar
Khar, also spelled Khaar, is the headquarters of Bajaur District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Khar was one of the largest towns in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.- Type: Town with 10,000 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Also known as: “Khaar”, “Khar Bajaur”, and “Khar, Bajaur”
Khar
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Bajaur Agency, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
34.73501° or 34° 44′ 6″ north
Longitude
71.52506° or 71° 31′ 30″ east
Population
10,000
Elevation
865 metres (2,838 feet)
Open location code
8J6HPGPG+22
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Khar” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “خار”
- Asturian: “Khaar”
- Dutch: “Khaar”
- Egyptian Arabic: “خار”
- German: “Khar”
- Hindi: “ख़ार, ख़ैबर पख़्तूनख़्वा”
- Hindi: “खार”
- Italian: “Khar”
- Persian: “خار، پاکستان”
- Persian: “خار”
- Russian: “Кхар”
- Spanish: “Khar”
- Swedish: “Khar, Pakistan”
- Urdu: “خار, باجوڑ”
- Urdu: “خار”
- Uzbek: “Har”
- Uzbek: “Xar”
- Western Panjabi: “خار”
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