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Cherat

Field	Value
official_name	Cherat
چېراټ
settlement_type	Hill Station
image_skyline	File:Cherat,beauty.jpg
imagesize	240px
image_caption	Cherat after the summer monsoon rains
mapsize	150 px
coordinates
pushpin_map	Pakistan
pushpin_label_position
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Pakistan
subdivision_type1	Province
subdivision_name1	Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
subdivision_type2	District
subdivision_name2	Nowshera District
population_total	1,311
population_as_of	2023
pop_est_as_of	2009
elevation_m	892
population_density_km2	auto
area_code_type	Calling code
timezone1	PST
utc_offset1	+5

چېراټ Cherat (Pashto: چېراټ) is a hill station dating from the 1860s that is located immediately above the villages of Chapri, Bakhti, Saleh Khana, Kotli Kalan and Dak Ismail Khel in the Nowshera District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan. Cherat lies 34 miles south east from the city of Peshawar at an elevation of 4,500 feet on the west of the Khattak range, which divides the district of Nowshera from Kohat District.

History

During British rule Cherat was important as a hill cantonment and sanitarium for British troops in what was then the Nowshera Tehsil of the Peshawar District of British India.

Cherat was first used as a sanitarium for troops in 1861 and was used during the hot weather as a health station for the British troops who were quartered in the hot and malarious valley of Peshawar. It was declared a cantonment in 1886. The cantonment commands a view of the whole of the Peshawar valley on one side, and on the other of a portion of the Khwarra valley in Peshawar District, and of Kohat District as far as the Indus.

A hospital, a church, and a few bungalows were built by the British authorities. The station, which has a good water supply, was throughout the summer the headquarters of the 1st (Peshawar) Division, and of one of the two British regiments stationed at Peshawar - a detachment of the other British regiment was also sent here.

There were 376 inhabitants according to the March 1901 Census, but in the hot season the garrison sometimes numbered 1,000 men.

Demographics

Population

As of the 2023 census, Cherat had a population of 1,311.

Military

In the 1920s the British had a wireless intercept station there. The fort is used as a base by the Special Service Group and is used for training of the army. As part of joint military events with several nations, Cherat has also hosted an Improving Command Course in 2010.

References

{{EB1911
[https://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V10_199.gif Cherāt - Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 10, p. 193]
"Population by administrative units 1951-1998". Lahore School.
"URBAN LOCALITIES BY POPULATION SIZE AND THEIR POPULATION BY SEX, ANNUAL GROWTH RATE AND HOUSEHOLD SIZE : CENSUS-2023, KPK".
"Khyber Pakhtūnkhwā / incl. FATA (Pakistan): Province, Major Cities, Municipalites & Towns - Population Statistics, Maps, Charts, Weather and Web Information".
"Archived copy".
link. (February 25, 2012)

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