Chitral
Chitral is a town situated on the Chitral River in northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It serves as the capital of the Chitral District and likewise served as the capital of the Chitral princely state that encompassed the region until its direct incorporation into West Pakistan in 1969.
Photo: Muhammad Zubair Zaibi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Chitral
- Type: City
- Description: town in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
- Category: town
- Location: Northwest Pakistan, Pakistan, South Asia, Asia
Latitude 35.8509° or 35° 51' 3.2" north | Longitude 71.7902° or 71° 47' 24.7" east |
Open Location Code 8J7HVQ2R+93 | Population 49,800 |
IATA airport code CJL | United Nations Location Code PK CJL |
Elevation 1,514 metres (4,967 feet) | OpenStreetMap ID node 279645187 |
GeoNames ID 1181065 |
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Also Known As
- Arabic: شترال
- Arabic: شيترار
- Arabic: شيترال
- Armenian: Չիտրալ
- Asturian; Bable: Chitral
- Bengali: চিত্রল
- Bosnian: Čitral
- Cebuano: Chitral
- Chinese: 吉德拉尔
- Chinese: 吉德拉爾
- Chinese: 契特拉
- Czech: Čitrál
- Danish: Chitral
- Dutch: Chitral
- Egyptian Spoken Arabic: شترال
- English: Chetrar
- Finnish: Chitral
- French: Chitral
- French: Chitrâl
- French: Tchitral
- French: Tchitrâl
- German: Chitral
- Greek: Τσιτράλ
- Gujarati: ચિત્રાલ
- Hindi: चित्राल
- Indonesian: Chitral
- Italian: Chitral
- Japanese: チトラル
- Kannada: ಚಿತ್ರಾಲ್
- Khowar: چھترار
- Korean: 치트랄
- Latvian: Čitrala
- Lithuanian: Čitralas
- Lithuanian: Čitralis
- Macedonian: Читрал
- Malay (generic): Chitral
- Marathi: चित्राल
- Norwegian Bokmål: Chitral
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Chitral
- Oriya: ଚିତ୍ରାଳ
- Persian: چترال
- Persian: چیترال
- Polish: Czitral
- Portuguese: Chitral
- Pushto: چترال
- Russian: Читрал
- Sinhalese: චිට්රල්
- Spanish: Chitral
- Swedish: Chitral
- Tamil: சிட்ரால்
- Tamil: சித்ரால்
- Telugu: చిత్రాల్
- Thai: จิตราล
- Turkish: Çitral
- Ukrainian: Читрал
- Urdu: چترال
- Vietnamese: Chitral
- Western Panjabi: چترال
Other Places Named Chitral
- Chitrāl DistrictNorthwest Pakistan, Pakistan
- Chak Twenty-eightLocality in Punjab, Pakistan
- Kunar RiverStream in Afghanistan
- MīrkhaniVillage in Northwest Pakistan, Pakistan
- ChatrālVillage in Northwest Pakistan, Pakistan
- ChitralLocality in Northwest Pakistan, Pakistan
- ChitralFarm in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
In the Area
Localities
- ZargirandehTown
- ShalidanVillage
- Shadok DaninVillage
- Chewbazar Gahatak DeninVillage
Landmarks
- Admission Wards Chitral HospitalHospital
- Chitral Sports Board Office
- Chitral General Post OfficePost office
- Foreigners Registration OfficePolice station
Popular Destinations in Northwest Pakistan
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Based on the page Chitral. See this page's contributions. Photo: Muhammad Zubair Zaibi, CC BY-SA 4.0.