Chitral

Chitral is a town situated on the Chitral River in the northern part of province, . It serves as the capital of the Lower Chitral District, and was previously the capital of , and before that, the capital of Chitral state, which was dissolved and made an administrative unit of West Pakistan between 1969 and 1972.
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  • City with 49,800 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 1,514 metres (4,967 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code CJL
  • …is also known as “Chetrar”
  • Description: Town in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Chitral

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Latitude
35.8509° or 35° 51′ 3″ north
Longitude
71.7902° or 71° 47′ 25″ east
UN/LOCODE
PK CJL
Open location code
8J7HVQ2R+93
Open­Street­Map ID
node 279645187
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1181065
Wiki­data ID
Q12126543

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Chitral” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “شترال”
  • Arabic: “شيترار”
  • Arabic: “شيترال”
  • Armenian: “Չիտրալ”
  • Asturian: “Chitral”
  • Awadhi: “चित्राल”
  • Basque: “Chitral”
  • Bengali: “চিত্রল”
  • Bosnian: “Čitral”
  • Cebuano: “Chitral”
  • Chinese: “吉德拉尔”
  • Chinese: “吉德拉爾”
  • Chinese: “奇特拉尔”
  • Chinese: “契特拉”
  • Czech: “Čitrál”
  • Danish: “Chitral”
  • Dutch: “Chitral”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “شترال”
  • 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: “Chitral”
  • Malayalam: “ചിത്രാൾ”
  • Marathi: “चित्राल”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chitral”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chitral”
  • Oriya: “ଚିତ୍ରାଳ”
  • Persian: “چترال”
  • Persian: “چیترال”
  • Polish: “Czitral”
  • Portuguese: “Chitral”
  • Pushto: “چترال”
  • Russian: “Читрал”
  • Sindhi: “چترال”
  • Sinhala: “චිට්‍රල්”
  • Spanish: “Chitral”
  • Swedish: “Chitral”
  • Tamil: “சிட்ரால்”
  • Tamil: “சித்ரால்”
  • Telugu: “చిత్రాల్”
  • Thai: “จิตราล”
  • Turkish: “Çitral”
  • Ukrainian: “Читрал”
  • Urdu: “چترال وادی”
  • Urdu: “چترال”
  • Vietnamese: “Chitral”
  • Western Panjabi: “چترال”

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