Besham
Besham is a city in the Shangla District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Located on the right bank of the Indus River, Besham serves as a major junction on the Karakoram Highway, that connects Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab with Gilgit-Baltistan, and crosses over into China's Xinjiang.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town
- Description: town in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
- Also known as: “Besham Qala”, “Beshām Qala”, “Besham Qila”, and “Bisham”
Besham
- Category: locality
- Location: Shangla District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
34.92925° or 34° 55′ 45″ northLongitude
72.87903° or 72° 52′ 45″ eastElevation
610 metres (2,001 feet)Open location code
8J6JWVHH+MJOpenStreetMap ID
node 299007032OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Besham” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بشام”
- Arabic: “بيشام”
- Asturian: “Besham”
- Bengali: “বেশাম”
- Chinese: “比瑟姆”
- Chinese: “贝沙姆”
- Chinese: “贝萨姆”
- Danish: “Besham”
- Dutch: “Besham”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بيشام”
- Finnish: “Besham”
- French: “Besham”
- Greek: “Μπέσαμ”
- Gujarati: “બેશમ”
- Hindi: “बिशाम”
- Hindi: “बेशाम”
- Indonesian: “Besham”
- Italian: “Besham”
- Japanese: “ベシャーム”
- Japanese: “ベシャム”
- Kannada: “ಬೆಸಮ್”
- Korean: “베스햄”
- Latvian: “Bešama”
- Lithuanian: “Bešamas”
- Malay: “Besham”
- Marathi: “बेशम”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Besham”
- Persian: “بشام”
- Polish: “Besham”
- Portuguese: “Besham”
- Russian: “Бешам”
- Sinhala: “බෙශාම්”
- Spanish: “Besham”
- Swedish: “Besham”
- Tamil: “பேஷம்”
- Telugu: “బేషం”
- Thai: “เบชฮาม”
- Turkish: “Besham”
- Ukrainian: “Бешам”
- Urdu: “بشام”
- Urdu: “بیشام”
- Vietnamese: “Besham”
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