Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, formerly North West Frontier Province (NWFP) travel guide

For the 1959 British film see Northwest Frontier The North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) (Urdu: śimāl maġribī sarhadī sūba شمال مغربی سرحدی صوبہ) is the smallest of the four main provinces of Pakistan. The NWFP is home to the majority Pashtuns (locally referred to as Pukhtuns) as well as other smaller ethnic groups. The province borders Afghanistan to the west and north, the Northern Areas to the northeast, Azad Kashmir to the east, Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) to the south, and Pakistani Punjab and Islamabad Capital Territory to the east. The FATA forms a buffer between the NWFP and Baluchistan. The principal language is Pashto and the provincial capital is Peshawar. The province is variously referred to as Pakhtunkhwa (پښتونخواه), which means "Pashtun Area" in Pashto, and Sarhad, meaning "Frontier", (سرحد) in Urdu. (...) more…