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
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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.