Nawagai, Bajaur

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Coordinates: 34°44′N71°32′E / 34.74°N 71.53°E / 34.74; 71.53 Coordinates: 34°44′N71°32′E / 34.74°N 71.53°E / 34.74; 71.53
Country Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan
Province Flag of FATA.svg  Federally Administered Tribal Areas
District Bajaur Agency
Tehsil Nawagai
Time zone PST (UTC+5)

Nawagai is a town in the Bajaur Agency of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. It lies on the border with Afghanistan. The Bajur Scouts headquarters is also located in the town. The "Civil colony" is located in this town and this place is the court of Bajaur controlled by a political agent.

Federally Administered Tribal Areas semi-autonomous tribal region in northwestern Pakistan

The Federally Administered Tribal Areas was a semi-autonomous tribal region in northwestern Pakistan that existed from 1947 until being merged with neighboring province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 2018. It consisted of seven tribal agencies (districts) and six frontier regions, and were directly governed by Pakistan's federal government through a special set of laws called the Frontier Crimes Regulations. It bordered Pakistan's provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan to the east and south, and Afghanistan's provinces of Kunar, Nangarhar, Paktia, Khost and Paktika to the west and north. The territory is almost exclusively inhabited by the Pashtun, who also live in the neighbouring provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Northern Balochistan, and straddle across the border into Afghanistan. They are mostly Muslim.

Pakistan federal parliamentary constitutional republic in South Asia

Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the world’s sixth-most populous country with a population exceeding 212,742,631 people. In area, it is the 33rd-largest country, spanning 881,913 square kilometres. Pakistan has a 1,046-kilometre (650-mile) coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by India to the east, Afghanistan to the west, Iran to the southwest, and China in the far northeast. It is separated narrowly from Tajikistan by Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor in the northwest, and also shares a maritime border with Oman.

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