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Kohat Tehsil

tehsil in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ55616123 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kohat is a tehsil of Kohat District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The population is 850,336, according to the 2017 census.

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The public source identifies “Kohat Tehsil” as tehsil in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Kohat, Tehsil and tehsil.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Kohat, Tehsil and tehsil providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q55616123. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kohat Tehsil” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.