Peshawar District
| Peshawar | |
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| Country |
 Pakistan
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| Province | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa |
| Capital | Peshawar |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1,257 km2 (485 sq mi) |
| Population (2014) | |
| • Total | 3,575,000 |
| • Density | 2,800/km2 (7,400/sq mi) |
| Time zone | PKT (UTC+5) |
Peshawar District (Urdu: ضلع پشاور) is in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, located at the north-west end of Pakistan about 160 km west of the federal capital Islamabad.
Peshawar has a geo-strategically important location and an enriched history. This city has seen the rise and fall of many civilizations. It was once the center of Gandhara civilization and has subsequently been ruled by Persians, Greeks, Buddhists, Kushans, Afghans, Mughals, Sikhs and the British. The original district of Peshawar was a district of the North-West Frontier Province of British India. At independence in 1947 the old Peshawar District became Peshawar Division, containing the current district of Peshawar.
The former tehsil of Charsadda was split off as the separate district of Charsadda in 1988, and in 1990 the former Nowshera tehsil became the separate Nowshera District. Under the latest revision of Pakistan's administrative structure, promulgated in 2001, Peshawar was also given the status of a city district.
The district is represented in the provincial assembly by eleven elected MPAs who represent the following constituencies:
There is only one tehsil in the district i.e. Peshawar tehsil. District Peshawar has been divided into 279 mouzas (Revenue Villages), out of which 236 are rural, 15 are urban and 28 mouzas are partly urban. Also, there are 30 police stations in the district. The district is represented in the provincial assembly by two elected MPAs who represent the following constituencies:
In 1998, the population of the district was 2,019,000, of which 49% were urban.
According to the 1981 census results for Peshawar tehsil, Pashto was the first language in 80% of households, Hindko – in 13%, Urdu – in 3.8% and Punjabi – in 3.3%. In the 1998 census results for the district, Pashto was the fist language of 86% of the population.
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