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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- 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
34.73991° or 34° 44′ 24″ northLongitude
71.52851° or 71° 31′ 43″ eastPopulation
10,000Elevation
865 metres (2,838 feet)Open location code
8J6HPGQH+XCOpenStreetMap ID
node 3443877644OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1174089Wikidata ID
Q1740566
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Khar” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “خار باجور”
- Arabic: “خار”
- Asturian: “Khaar”
- Dutch: “Khaar”
- Egyptian Arabic: “خار”
- German: “Khar”
- Hindi: “ख़ार, ख़ैबर पख़्तूनख़्वा”
- Italian: “Khar”
- Persian: “خار، پاکستان”
- Russian: “Кхар”
- Spanish: “Khar”
- Swedish: “Khar, Pakistan”
- Urdu: “خار, باجوڑ”
- Urdu: “خار”
- Uzbek: “Har”
- Uzbek: “Xar”
- Western Panjabi: “خار”
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