Chitral

چھترار‎
چترال‎
; چھترار‎; چترال‎;
City
	Coordinates: 35°50′46″N 71°47′09″E / 35.84611°N 71.78583°ECoordinates: 35°50′46″N 71°47′09″E / 35.84611°N 71.78583°E
Country	Pakistan
Province	Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
District	Chitral District
Established	14 August 1947
Government
• Body	MNA
• MNA (NA-32)	Moulana Abdul Akbar Chitrali (APML)
Area
• Total	35.9 km2 (13.9 sq mi)
Elevation	1,517 m (4,977 ft)
Languages
• Official	Khowar
Time zone	UTC+5 (PST)
PIN	1720 – 0xx
Website	chitral.gov.pk

Chitral (Urdu: چترال‎code: ur is deprecated , Khowar: چھترار‎code: khw is deprecated ) is the capital city of the Chitral District in Pakistan. It is on the western bank of the Chitral River. It has a population of 20,000.

Languages

Chitral is place of great language diversity. The official language is Chitrali and Panjabi, though Khowar is the most spoken language. Most languages in Chitral are either Dardic languages, Iranic languages, or Nuristani languages. Around 24 languages are spoken in Chitral^[6] including Central Asian Arabic, Balti, Burushaski, Dameli, Domaaki, Dari Farsi, Dangariwar, Gawar-Bati, Kalasha-mun, Kalkoti, Kamviri, Kohistani, Khowar, Kyrgyz, Madaklashti, Munji, Palula, Shekhani, Shina, Torwali, Turkmen, Ushoji, Uzbek, Waigali, Wakhi, and Yidgha.

Norwegian linguist Georg Morgenstierne wrote that Chitral is the area of the greatest linguistic diversity in the world.^[7]

Chitral Media

Chitral's Shahi Mosque
A view of city of Chitral. In the foreground river Chitral is flowing
A symbol of Islam, the star and crescent, in a green. Created by Kbolino in Inkscape, who releases the image into the public domain for all intents and purposes.
AUM, a stylised letter of Devanagari script, used as a religious symbol in Hinduism
The Sikh Khanda symbol (U+262C).