Kohistan District

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The city/county of Kohistan District

Country: Pakistan

State/Province: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

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Kohistan (in Persian means "land of mountains") has two distinct meanings in Pakistan. In Persian "koh" means "peak" and "istaan" means "land of". In its usual modern sense Kohistan District is an administrative district within Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province covering an area of 7,492 sq.kilometres; it had a population of 472,570 at the 1998 Census. In a broader historic and geographic sense, Kohistan is used for a region that stretches from the border with Azad Kashmir in the east to Afghanistan's Nuristan province in the west. Wikipedia:Kohistan District, North West Frontier Province