Swat (Pashto: سوات articulated ]; generally known as Uddyana, lit. cultivate) is a waterway valley and a regulatory region in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan. It is the upper valley of the Swat River, which ascends in the Hindu Kush run. The capital of Swat is Saidu Sharif, yet the primary town in the Swat valley is Mingora. It was a regal state (see The Yusafzai State of Swat) until the point that 1969 when it was broken down close by Dir state andChitral state and made piece of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa at that point known as North West Frontier Province. The valley is populated for the most part by ethnic Pashtuns and Gujjar and Kohistani people group. The dialects talked in the valley are Pashto, Gojri, Torwali and Kohistani.
With high mountains, green glades, and clear lakes, it is a position of awesome normal excellence and is well known with visitors. Ruler Elizabeth II amid her visit to The Yusafzai State of Swat called it "the Switzerland of the east."
Swat is encompassed by Chitral, Upper Dir and Lower Dir in the West, Gilgit-Baltistan in North And Kohistan, Buner and Shangla in the East and south East.
With high mountains, green glades, and clear lakes, it is a position of awesome normal excellence and is well known with visitors. Ruler Elizabeth II amid her visit to The Yusafzai State of Swat called it "the Switzerland of the east."
Swat is encompassed by Chitral, Upper Dir and Lower Dir in the West, Gilgit-Baltistan in North And Kohistan, Buner and Shangla in the East and south East.