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Mingora

Also known as Mingawara, Mangora, Mingaora

Mingora (, Romanised: Minga Wara) is a city in the Swat District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Located on the Swat River, it is the 3rd largest city in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the 26th largest in Pakistan. Mingora is the largest city and the epicenter of social, cultural, and economic activities in Malakand Division, and also the largest in the northern part of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

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Settlement.name: Mingora
Settlement.settlement_type: City
Settlement.image_skyline: Sunset over the Mingora City, Swat Valley, Pakistan.jpg
Settlement.imagesize: 280px
Settlement.image_caption: View of Mingora
Settlement.mapsize: 150 px
Settlement.pushpin_map: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa#Pakistan
Settlement.pushpin_label_position: top
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Province
Settlement.subdivision_type2: Division
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Malakand
Settlement.subdivision_type3: District
Settlement.subdivision_name3: Swat
Settlement.subdivision_type4: Tehsil
Settlement.subdivision_name4: Babuzai
Settlement.population_total: 361,112
Settlement.total_type: City

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Official name: مینگورہ‬‎
Population: 279914
Elevation: 984
Official website: tourswat.com/saidu-sharif-and-mingora
Image: Sunset over the Mingora City, Swat Valley, Pakistan.jpg

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==History== The area around Mingora has long been inhabited. At Loe Banr, Butkara II and Matalai, Italian archaeologists unearthed 475 Indo-Aryan graves dated between 1520 and 170 BC and two horse skeletons. On the opposite side of the River Swat at Aligrama, near the Saidu Sharif airport, a site of Gandhara grave culture was discovered by Italian archaeologists and dated to 1000 BC.