Swat District
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Key facts
- Capital
- Mingora
- 1969 2025
- 5,337 km (2,061 sq mi)
- Type
- District
- Political subdivisions
- 7 Tehsils
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- ancient civilization
- Country
- Pakistan
- Located in
- Malakand Division
- Capital
- Saidu Sharif
- Area
- 5337
- Shares border with
- Buner District
- Official website
- swat.kp.gov.pk
- Image
- Mankial Swat valley 02.JPG
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- Commons category
- Swat District
- topic's main category
- Category:Swat District
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Swat District
- inception
- 1969-10-14
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
via Wikidata · CC0
~5 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Today part ofPakistan · Lower Swat & Upper Swat Districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Swat District (Pashto: سوات اولسوالۍ, Urdu: ضلع سوات) was an administrative district in the Malakand Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan from 1969 to 2025. The district was known for its natural sites and was a popular tourist destination. It had a population of 2,687,384 per the 2023 national census, and was the 15th-largest district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa at the time.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Swat District” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.