Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is the North Western province of Pakistan, also was known as NWFP or North western Frontier Province
KPK offers an invitation to see a spectacular landscape and cultural diversity. Peshawar is the business and administrative hub of this province though other cities have their places. Some of the tourist hotspots include Khyber Pass, an old interior city, an industrial estate famous for smuggled goods, Islamia College, Peshawar Fort, (KisaKhawani) storyteller bazaar. Its food street is famous for barbecued sheep meat as well as karahi meat.
The Khyber Pass leads into Afghanistan. There are very amenable people in this area, especially in the mountains in Shandoor, Kalash regions. The province has an area of 28,773 mi² or (74,521 km²) – comparable in size to South Carolina in the United States.
Pashto is the predominant language in the region. Many people in the Hazara region also speak Hindko. Urdu and English are too understood by the vast majority.