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Swat District
Swat
( ) is a river valley and an administrative
district
in the
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Province of
Pakistan
. It is the upper valley of the
Swat River
, which rises in the
Hindu Kush
range. The capital of Swat is
Saidu Sharif
, but the main town in the Swat valley is
Mingora
. It was a
princely state
(see
The Yusafzai State of Swat
) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa until it was dissolved in 1969 along with many other princely states like
Dir state
and
Chitral state
. The valley is populated mostly by ethnic
Pashtuns
and
Gujjar
and Kohistani communities. The languages spoken in the valley are
Pashto
,
Gojri
,
Torwali
and
Kohistani
.
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