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Kohistan (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) is a Growing Region: a named region above Growing Areas. It covers the mountain country of northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa called Kohistan, with the Swat and Dir districts, and holds the Upper Kohistan, Lower Kohistan, Kolai-Palas, Swat and Dir growing areas. The title carries the province because Sindh and Afghanistan each have a region called Kohistan.
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Why the region is on the map
- Stamler, Fahlman and Vigeant (1985) name the northern mountains and valleys of Dir, Swat, Hazara and Kohistan, with Chitral and the adjoining areas of Gilgit and the Yasin valley, as where cannabis was mainly cultivated in Pakistan.
- Its five growing areas each rest on their own sources: press reports of cannabis cultivated and destroyed in the three Kohistan districts (2019–2026), the 2013 survey of the Miandam valley in Swat, and the 1985 account for Dir. Each area's Talk page lists them.
- The status is Active: the Kohistan reports describe cultivation since 2000, and no source read says that growing in the region has ended.
Title and extent
- Encyclopædia Britannica ("Kohistan") describes Kohistan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as the area west of Chilas and the Kagan valley, with Indus Kohistan in the east and Swat Kohistan (Kalam) and Dir Kohistan in the west, reaching the Afghan border.
- The 1985 account groups Dir, Swat and Kohistan together; no source read names the whole tract, so the region takes Britannica's name for its mountain core.
- Swat District and the Dir districts reach south of Swat Kohistan and Dir Kohistan, into the lower Swat valley and lower Dir. They are inside the region because the region is drawn as its growing areas, and those areas are drawn on whole districts.
- Hazara, which the 1985 account also names, is not in the region: no source read names a place of cultivation there since. Chitral is in the Hindu Kush region; Gilgit and the Yasin valley lie in Gilgit-Baltistan, outside Kohistan.
How the border is drawn
- The border is drawn on the districts of its five growing areas: Upper Kohistan, Lower Kohistan and Kolai-Palas districts, Swat District and Upper, Central and Lower Dir districts, as mapped in OpenStreetMap, about 18,253 km².
- The map line is its five areas' lines joined. Each keeps the land below 4,000 m (SRTM elevation) that ESA WorldCover 2021 does not map as bare or sparse vegetation, permanent snow and ice, or open water, with pockets inside the line filled, pieces less than about 5 km apart joined and the edge smoothed. About 15,600 km² remain, and the infobox area is rounded from that line.
- The point in the infobox is a point inside the border near its centre.
Sources
- Encyclopædia Britannica, "Kohistan". Its description of the inhabitants is not used.
- The other sources are those of the growing areas, cited here with the same references.