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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
( ; ), also known as
KP
, is one of the
four provinces of Pakistan
, located in the
northwestern region
of the country. It was formerly known as
North-West Frontier Province
(NWFP), commonly called
Sarhad
in
Urdu
, which means "frontier." Its provincial capital and largest city is
Peshawar
, followed by
Mardan
. It shares borders with the
Federally Administered Tribal Areas
to the west;
Gilgit–Baltistan
to the northeast;
Azad Kashmir
,
Islamabad
and
Punjab
to the east and southeast.
Balochistan
lies to the southeast. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa also shares an international border with the
Afghanistan
, connected through the
Khyber Pass
.
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