Swat
The Swat Valley is a charming valley in the northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, which is a popular tour destination. During the visit of Queen Elizabeth II in the 1960s, she called it "Switzerland of the East".| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: district of Pakistan with 2,690,000 residents
- Description: district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
- Also known as: “Sawat” and “Swat District”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bahrain.
Bahrain
Town
Photo: Muhammad Sulman, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bahrain, formerly known in Torwali as Bhaunal, is a town located in Swat District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, 60 km north of Mingora at an elevation of 4,700 ft on the right bank of the Swat river.
Swat
- Category: ancient civilization
- Location: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, South Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Swat” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سوات”
- Arabic: “وادي سوات”
- Belarusian: “акруга Сват”
- Belarusian: “Сват (акруга)”
- Belarusian: “Сват”
- Bengali: “সোয়াত জেলা”
- Bengali: “সোয়াত”
- Catalan: “Districte de Swat”
- Catalan: “Swat”
- Catalan: “Swāt”
- Catalan: “Vall de Swat”
- Cebuano: “Swāt District”
- Chinese: “Swat District”
- Chinese: “Swat”
- Chinese: “斯瓦特”
- Chinese: “斯瓦特县”
- Chinese: “斯瓦特縣”
- Chinese: “斯華特”
- Czech: “Svát”
- Czech: “Údolí Svát”
- Czech: “Údolí Svátu”
- Czech: “Údolí Swat”
- Czech: “Údolí Swát”
- Danish: “Swat-dalen”
- Danish: “Swat”
- Dutch: “Swat”
- Dutch: “Swatvallei”
- Esperanto: “Kantono Sŭat”
- Esperanto: “Sŭat distrikto”
- Finnish: “Swatin laakso”
- French: “district de Swat”
- French: “District de Swat”
- French: “Vallée de Swat”
- German: “Swat District”
- German: “Swat-Tal”
- German: “Swat”
- Hebrew: “סוואט (נפה)”
- Hindi: “स्वात जिला, (पाकिस्तान)”
- Hindi: “स्वात ज़िला”
- Hindi: “स्वात ज़िले”
- Hindi: “स्वात”
- Interlingua: “Swat”
- Italian: “Distretto di Swat”
- Italian: “Swat”
- Italian: “Uddiyana”
- Italian: “Uḍḍiyana”
- Italian: “Uḍḍiyāna”
- Japanese: “スワート”
- Japanese: “スワート地区”
- Japanese: “スワート渓谷”
- Japanese: “スワート県”
- Japanese: “スワット区”
- Japanese: “スワット峡谷”
- Japanese: “スワトゥ”
- Korean: “스와트”
- Korean: “스와트구”
- Maithili: “स्वात जिला”
- Malayalam: “സ്വാത് ജില്ല”
- Nepali: “स्वात जिल्ला”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Swat”
- Norwegian: “Swat”
- Ossetian: “Сват (Пакистан)”
- Ossetian: “Сват”
- Panjabi: “ਸਵਾਤ ਜ਼ਿਲ੍ਹਾ”
- Persian: “دره سوات”
- Persian: “دره ی سوات”
- Persian: “درهی سوات”
- Persian: “سوآت”
- Persian: “ناحیه سوات”
- Polish: “Dystrykt Swat”
- Portuguese: “Suate”
- Portuguese: “Swat”
- Portuguese: “Vale do Swat”
- Pushto: “د سوات ولسوالۍ”
- Pushto: “سوات ولسوالۍ”
- Russian: “Сват”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Swat”
- Sindhi: “سوات ضلعو”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Swat”
- Swedish: “Svat”
- Swedish: “Swat, Pakistan”
- Swedish: “Swat”
- Swedish: “Swatdalen”
- Tamil: “சுவத் மாவட்டம்”
- Tamil: “சுவாத் மாவட்டம்”
- Telugu: “స్వాత్ లోయ”
- Thai: “อำเภอสวาต”
- Turkish: “Svat”
- Urdu: “Swat valley”
- Urdu: “Swat”
- Urdu: “سوات”
- Urdu: “ضلع سوات”
- Uzbek: “Svat (Pokiston)”
- Uzbek: “Svat”
- Welsh: “Swat”
- Western Panjabi: “سوات”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع سوات”
- Wu Chinese: “Swat District”
- Wu Chinese: “Swat Province”
- Wu Chinese: “Swat Valley”
- Wu Chinese: “Swat”
- Wu Chinese: “斯伐脱(省)”
- Wu Chinese: “斯伐脱县”
- Wu Chinese: “斯伐脱省”
- Wu Chinese: “斯瓦特县”
- Yue Chinese: “斯華特”
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