Pakistan
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Peshawar District

Peshawar

Peshawar is a relatively prosperous frontier city in near the Pakistan-Afghan border, which gives it a distinct flavour. Peshawar is the capital and largest city of .
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  • Type: City with 1,970,000 residents
  • Description: capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan
  • Also known as: “Pechaver”, “Pekhawar”, “Pesháwar”, “Peshawer”, and “Peshawur”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Peshawar Cantonment and Muhābat Khān Masjid.

Railway station
Photo: franek2, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Railway Station is the principal railway station in Peshawar, in the province of Pakistan. It is located on Saddar Road. The station is staffed and has a booking office.

Mosque
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The Mahabat Khan Mosque, sometimes spelt Mohabbat Khan Mosque, is a 17th-century Mughal-era mosque in Peshawar, . The mosque was built in 1630, and named after the Mughal governor of Peshawar, Mahabat Khān.

Archaeological site
Photo: Tan Afridi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an archeological site located in Peshawar, . It was built in the Mughal-era by Jehan Ara Begum, daughter of Shah Jahan, as a caravanserai.

Peshawar

Latitude
34.004° or 34° 0′ 14″ north
Longitude
71.5509° or 71° 33′ 3″ east
Population
1,970,000
Elevation
340 metres (1,115 feet)
IATA airport code
PEW
United Nations Location Code
PK PEW
Open location code
8J6H2H32+H8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 294107164
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1168197
Wiki­data ID
Q1113311
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Peshawar” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Pesjawar”
  • Arabic: “بيشاور”
  • Armenian: “Փեշավար”
  • Asturian: “Peshawar”
  • Awadhi: “पेशावर”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pişəvər”
  • Basque: “Peshawar”
  • Belarusian: “Пешавар”
  • Belarusian: “Пэшавар”
  • Bengali: “পেশাওয়ার”
  • Breton: “Peshawar”
  • Bulgarian: “Пешавар”
  • Catalan: “Peshawar”
  • Cebuano: “Peshawar”
  • Central Kurdish: “پێشاوەر”
  • Chechen: “Пешавар”
  • Chinese: “佩沙華”
  • Chinese: “柏夏瓦”
  • Chinese: “白夏瓦”
  • Chinese: “白沙瓦”
  • Croatian: “Pešavar”
  • Czech: “Pešávar”
  • Czech: “Péšávar”
  • Danish: “Peshawar”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Peşaver”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Peşawer”
  • Dutch: “Pesjawar”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بيشاور”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “پيشاور”
  • Esperanto: “Peŝavaro”
  • Estonian: “Peshawar”
  • Finnish: “Peshawar”
  • Finnish: “Peshāwar”
  • French: “Pechaver”
  • French: “Peshawar”
  • Galician: “Peshawar”
  • Georgian: “პეშავარი”
  • German: “Peschawar”
  • Greek: “Πεσαβάρ”
  • Gujarati: “પેશાવર”
  • Hebrew: “פשאוור”
  • Hebrew: “פשוואר”
  • Hindi: “पेशावर”
  • Hungarian: “Pesavar”
  • Ido: “Peshawar”
  • Indonesian: “Peshawar”
  • Irish: “Peshawar”
  • Italian: “Peshawar”
  • Japanese: “ペシャーワル”
  • Japanese: “ペシャワール”
  • Japanese: “ペシャワル”
  • Javanese: “Peshawar”
  • Kalaallisut: “Peshawar”
  • Kannada: “ಪೆಶಾವರ್”
  • Kannada: “ಪೇಶಾವರ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Pekhawar”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Peshavar”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Peshawar”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Peshawur”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Peshovar”
  • Kashmiri: “پِشاوَر”
  • Kazakh: “Пешавар”
  • Kirghiz: “Пешавар”
  • Korean: “페샤와르”
  • Latin: “Peshawar”
  • Latvian: “Pešāvara”
  • Lithuanian: “Pešavaras”
  • Low German: “Peschawar”
  • Luxembourgish: “Peshawar”
  • Magahi: “पुरुषपुर”
  • Magahi: “पेशावर”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Peschawar”
  • Malay: “Peshawar”
  • Malayalam: “പെഷവാർ”
  • Maori: “Peshawar”
  • Marathi: “पेशावर”
  • Mazanderani: “پیشاور”
  • Mingrelian: “პეშავარი”
  • Nepali: “पेशावर”
  • Nepali: “पेसावर”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Peshawar”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Peshawar”
  • Norwegian: “Peshawar”
  • Oriya: “ପେଶାବର”
  • Ossetian: “Пешавар”
  • Panjabi: “ਪਿਸ਼ੌਰ”
  • Panjabi: “ਪੇਸ਼ਾਵਰ”
  • Persian: “پیشاور”
  • Polish: “Peszawar”
  • Portuguese: “Peshawar”
  • Portuguese: “Pexauar”
  • Pushto: “پېښور”
  • Romanian: “Peshawar”
  • Russian: “Пешавар”
  • Sanskrit: “पुरुषपुरम्”
  • Sanskrit: “पेशावर”
  • Santali: “ᱯᱮᱥᱟᱣᱟᱨ”
  • Scots: “Peshawar”
  • Serbian: “Пешавар”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Peshawar”
  • Sicilian: “Peshawar”
  • Silesian: “Peszawar”
  • Sindhi: “پشاور”
  • Sinhala: “පෙෂවෝර්”
  • Slovak: “Pešávar”
  • Slovenian: “Pešavar”
  • Spanish: “Peshawar”
  • Swedish: “Peshawar”
  • Tagalog: “Peshawar”
  • Tajik: “Пешовар”
  • Tamil: “பெசாவர்”
  • Tamil: “பெஷாவர்”
  • Tatar: “Пишавәр”
  • Telugu: “పెషావర్”
  • Thai: “เปศวาร์”
  • Turkish: “Peşaver”
  • Uighur: “پېشاۋار”
  • Ukrainian: “Пешавар”
  • Ukrainian: “Фо-лу-ша?”
  • Urdu: “پشاور”
  • Uzbek: “Peshovar”
  • Venetian: “Peshawar”
  • Vietnamese: “Peshawar”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Peshawar”
  • Welsh: “Peshawar”
  • Western Panjabi: “پشاور”
  • Wu Chinese: “白沙瓦”
  • Yue Chinese: “佩沙華”

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