Khyber Pakhtunkhwa formerly known as North-West Frontier Province and various other names, is one of the four provinces of Pakistan, located in the northwestern part of the country. It borders Afghanistan to the northwest, Gilgit Baltistan in the north-east, Pakistan in Kashmir, to the east, the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), west and south and Punjab and Islamabad Capital Territory to the southeast.
The main ethnic group in the province are Pashtun, followed by a series of small ethnic groups, including Hazarewals and Chitral. The principal language is Pashto, locally called Pukht and the provincial capital, Peshawar is called locally Pekhawar.
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