Peshawar is spread over an area of 1,257 sq. kilometers, which shares almost 1.69% of the total area of Khyber Pakhtunkhw. The City District has been divided into 4 towns. Tentative areas of its sub-divisions show that Town-4 occupies nearly 45% of the total land area, followed by Town-2 (35% of the land area), Town-3 (16% of the land area), Town-1(3% of the land area), whereas the sovereign cantonment represent approximately 1% of the district land area.