Kaniguram
Kānīgūram is a town in the South Waziristan region of Pakistan. Kaniguram's population mainly consists of the Ormur or Burki tribes of Pashtuns. It is also the hometown of the sixteenth-century Pashtun revolutionary leader and warrior-poet Bayazid Pir Roshan, who wrote the first known book of Pashto language.- Type: Town with 13,800 residents
- Description: town in Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan
- Also known as: “Kānigurum”
Kaniguram
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: South Waziristan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
32.52138° or 32° 31′ 17″ northLongitude
69.79599° or 69° 47′ 46″ eastPopulation
13,800Elevation
1,910 metres (6,266 feet)Open location code
8J4FGQCW+H9OpenStreetMap ID
node 3388677948OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1174953Wikidata ID
Q6363164
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Western Panjabi—“Kaniguram” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “加尼古勒姆”
- Hindi: “कानिगुरम”
- Irish: “Kaniguram”
- Panjabi: “ਕਾਨੀਗੂਰਮ”
- Western Panjabi: “کانیگورم”
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