Kaniguram
Kānīgūram is a town in the South Waziristan region of Pakistan. Kaniguram's population mainly consists of the Ormur tribe 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
32.52022° or 32° 31′ 13″ north
Longitude
69.78976° or 69° 47′ 23″ east
Population
13,800
Elevation
1,910 metres (6,266 feet)
Open location code
8J4FGQCQ+3W
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OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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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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