Topic summary
Swat District
· Lower Swat & Upper Swat Districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Swat District (Pashto: سوات اولسوالۍ, Urdu: ضلع سوات) was an administrative district in the Malakand Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan from 1969 to 2025. The district was known for its natural sites and was a popular tourist destination. It had a population of 2,687,384 per the 2023 national census, and was the 15th-largest district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa at the time.
Swat District was centred on the Swat Valley, usually referred to simply as Swat, which is a natural geographic region surrounding the Swat River.