Towns
The only motor road to Chitral reaches 10,234 ft (3,119 m) at the Lowarai Pass. However, the district headquarters, lies at only 2,700 ft (820 m), twice the altitude of Peshawar but much lower than the traditional and eponymous capital of Dir at the foot of the Lowarai. Except for them and a number of rapidly growing bazaar towns along the main roads, the population is rural, scattered in more than 1200 villages over the plains of Adenzai and Munda and the deep narrow valleys of the Panjkora and its tributaries.
Of these the largest are
Barawal, Karo, Nihag, Toormang, Usherai,
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