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In [[Pakistan]], the '''Northwest Frontier Province''' is a semi-autonomous area which is bordered on to the north by Afghanistan and west by the also semi-autonomous [[Federally Administered Tribal Area]]. Its capital is [[Peshawar]].
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{{Image|NWFP FATA.png|right|550px|The green portion of this map is the NWFP, while the blue is the FATA}}
{{Image|NWFP FATA.png|right|350px|This map shows the location of NWFP (green) in relation to FATA (blue) and their neighbours. Broadly, the blue and green areas were combined as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 2018.}}
The '''North-West Frontier Province''' (NWFP) existed from 1901 to 1955, and from 1970 to 2010. Until 1947, it was part of British India, and then of Pakistan. The province was disestablished in 1955 as part of an administrative reorganisation but then revived in 1970. In April 2010, it was reconstituted as the new province of [[Khyber Pakhtunkhwa]].


The inhabitants are largely [[Pashtun]], with ethnic ties across the border into [[Afghanistan]], making the international border only a concept to tribes. Nevertheless, the area is not all Pashtun; when, in May 2008, the government renamed NWFP the Pukhtunkhwa (Land of the Pashtuns), other groups resented it.
NWFP was adjacent (see map) to Pakistan's [[Federally Administered Tribal Areas]] (FATA) and, in 2018, that region also became part of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.


Swat Valley, where the most intense fighting in May 2009 is taking place, is in the north-central part of the NWFP.
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This map shows the location of NWFP (green) in relation to FATA (blue) and their neighbours. Broadly, the blue and green areas were combined as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 2018.

The North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) existed from 1901 to 1955, and from 1970 to 2010. Until 1947, it was part of British India, and then of Pakistan. The province was disestablished in 1955 as part of an administrative reorganisation but then revived in 1970. In April 2010, it was reconstituted as the new province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

NWFP was adjacent (see map) to Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and, in 2018, that region also became part of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

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