Chitral
Chitral is a town situated on the Chitral River in the northern part of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. It serves as the capital of the Lower Chitral District, and was previously the capital of Chitral District, 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 about 49,800 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 1,500 metres (4,920 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code CJL
- …is also known as “Chetrar”
- Description: Town in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
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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
OpenStreetMap feature
place = city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Chitral” goes by many names.
شترالArabic
شيترارArabic
شيترالArabic
ՉիտրալArmenian
ChitralAsturian
चित्रालAwadhi
ChitralBasque
চিত্রলBengali
ČitralBosnian
ChitralCebuano
吉德拉尔Chinese
吉德拉爾Chinese
奇特拉尔Chinese
契特拉Chinese
ČitrálCzech
ChitralDanish
ChitralDutch
شترالEgyptian Arabic
ChitralFinnish
ΤσιτράλGreek
ચિત્રાલGujarati
चित्रालHindi
ChitralIndonesian
ChitralItalian
チトラルJapanese
ಚಿತ್ರಾಲ್Kannada
چھترارKhowar
치트랄Korean
ČitralaLatvian
ČitralasLithuanian
ČitralisLithuanian
ЧитралMacedonian
ChitralMalay
ചിത്രാൾMalayalam
चित्रालMarathi
ChitralNorwegian Bokmål
ChitralNorwegian Nynorsk
ଚିତ୍ରାଳOriya
چترالPersian
چیترالPersian
CzitralPolish
چترالPushto
ЧитралRussian
چترالSindhi
චිට්රල්Sinhala
ChitralSwedish
சிட்ரால்Tamil
சித்ரால்Tamil
చిత్రాల్Telugu
จิตราลThai
ÇitralTurkish
ЧитралUkrainian
چترالUrdu
چترال وادیUrdu
ChitralVietnamese
چترالWestern Panjabi
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