Karak District
Karak District
ضلع کرک کرک ولسوالۍ | |
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Speena village in Karak district | |
Karak District (red) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | |
| Country | Pakistan |
| Province | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa |
| Division | Kohat |
| Headquarters | Karak |
| Government | |
| • Type | District Administration |
| • Deputy Commissioner | Sharukh Ali Khan |
| • District Police Officer | N/A |
| • District Health Officer | N/A |
| Area | |
| 3,371 km2 (1,302 sq mi) | |
| Population (2023) | |
| 815,878 | |
| • Density | 242.0/km2 (626.9/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 58,065 (7.12%) |
| • Rural | 757,813 (92.88%) |
| Literacy | |
| • Literacy rate |
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| Time zone | UTC+5 (PST) |
| Number of Tehsils | 3 |
| languagea | Pashto & Urdu |
| Website | karak |
Karak District (Pashto: کرک ولسوالۍ, Urdu: ضلع کرکⓘ) is a district of Kohat Division in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. It is situated to the south of Kohat District and on the north side of Bannu and Lakki Marwat districts on the main Indus Highway between Peshawar and Karachi – it is 131 km from the provincial capital Peshawar. It gained a district status in 1982, prior to which it was part of Kohat District.
It is natively inhabited by the Khattak Pashtun tribe who make the majority of the population.