Karak, Pakistan

Karak (Pashto: کرك, Urdu: کرک ) is the headquarters of Karak District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is 123  km from Peshawar on the main Indus Highway between Peshawar and Karachi. It is located at 33°7'12N 71°5'41E. Karak is said to be the single district in Pakistan that is inhabited by only one tribe of Pashtuns — the Khattaks.

Karak is a fast-growing city with just over 50,000 people. It is the second-largest city in Kohat Division and is the only urbanized area and namesake of Karak District. Karak's population nearly doubled between 1998 and 2017. The dominant language in the city is Pashto, which nearly everybody speaks. The city was first labeled an urban area between the 1972 and 1981 Pakistan censuses.

See also

• List of cities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by population
• Kohat Division
  • Hangu District
    • Doaba
    • Hangu
    • Tall
  • Karak District
  • Kohat District
    • Kohat
    • Lachi
    • Shakardara
  • Kurram District
    • Parachinar
    • Sadda
  • Orakzai District
• Pashto

References

1. Karak District
2. Karak
3. Khattak (surname)
4. Pakistan
5. 2020 Karak temple attack
6. Khattak
7. Coal mining in Pakistan
8. Government Post Graduate College Karak
9. Malik Qasim Khan Khattak
10. Karak Oil Refinery
11. Karak Tehsil
12. Ayub Khattak
13. NA-38 Karak
14. Muhammad Sajjad
15. Laki Ghundaki
16. PK-97 Karak-I
17. Hinduism in Pakistan
18. Khushal Khan Khattak University
19. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf
20. Masala chai