Image by estherchoi on Pixabay · Pixabay License
Cherat
Sign in to saveCherat (Pashto: چېراټ) is a hill station dating from the 1860s that is located immediately above the villages of Chapri, Bakhti, Saleh Khana, Kotli Kalan and Dak Ismail Khel in the Nowshera District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan. Cherat lies 34 miles south east from the city of Peshawar at an elevation of 4,500 feet on the west of the Khattak range, which divides the district of Nowshera from Kohat District.
In the Vinony graph
The entry is geolocated on the map in city, across 6 mapped points.
Vinony's link graph records 51 inbound references to Cherat, and connects out to Pakistan Army, hill station and time zone.
It sits within the topics Military facilities of the Pakistan Army and Populated places in Nowshera District.
Vinony links it to 7 Wikipedia language editions.
Weather now
cached 2159h ago7-day forecast
via Open-Meteo
Place details
- Locality
- چیرات
- Region
- خیبر پختونخوا
- Country
- پاکستان
- Population
- 2,986
- Timezone
- Asia/Karachi
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Pakistan
- Located in
- Nowshera District
- Elevation
- 892
- Image
- Cherat,beauty.jpg
Show 2 more facts
- Commons category
- Cherat, Pakistan
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
~2 min read
Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- History
- Demographics
- Population
- Military
- References
Cherat (Pashto: چېراټ) is a hill station dating from the 1860s that is located immediately above the villages of Chapri, Bakhti, Saleh Khana, Kotli Kalan and Dak Ismail Khel in the Nowshera District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan. Cherat lies 34 miles south east from the city of Peshawar at an elevation of 4,500 feet on the west of the Khattak range, which divides the district of Nowshera from Kohat District.
==History== During British rule Cherat was important as a hill cantonment and sanitarium for British troops in what was then the Nowshera Tehsil of the Peshawar District of British India.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cherat” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Gallery (2)
On the map
6 mapped locations