This article is about the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. For other uses, see Peshawar (disambiguation).
Peshawar(Pashto: پېښور Pe:khawar,Urdu: پشاورPe-sha:war) is the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly called the North-West Frontier Province) of Pakistan. Peshawar is the largest city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and by the 1998 census was the ninth-largest city of Pakistan. But now the estimated population of Peshawar has crossed 3.5 millions making Peshawar the fifth largest city in Pakistan. Peshawar is a metropolitan city and the administrative centre and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated in a large valley near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, close to the Pak-Afg border. Peshawar is irrigated by various canals of the Kabul River and by its right tributary, the Bara River.
Peshawar's recorded history goes back as far as at least 539 BC, making it one of the oldest living cities in South Asia.