Thall

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Thall is a town in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, located near the Kurram River and serving as a gateway to the Kurram tribal region.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Thall canonical 2
Thal 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf town
administrativeStatus tehsil headquarters
borderingRegion former Federally Administered Tribal Areas
coordinateLocation 33.41°N 70.38°E
country Pakistan
elevationAboveSeaLevel approximately 1,200 metres
gatewayTo Kurram tribal region
governedBy Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
hasBridge bridge over Kurram River near Thall
hasClimate semi-arid climate
hasEconomicActivity agriculture
trade with Kurram tribal areas
hasLanguage Pashto
linked to: Pashto language

Urdu
linked to: Urdu language
hasMajorEthnicGroup Pashtuns
hasMarket local bazaar serving Kurram-bound traffic
hasMilitaryInstallation Pakistan Air Force base
Pakistan Army garrison
hasNearbyTribalAgency former Kurram Agency
hasRiverFeature fertile riverine belt along Kurram River
historicalRole British-era frontier post
locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity Hangu District
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
locatedInCountry Pakistan
locatedInMountainRange lower spurs of the Safed Koh Range
locatedInRegion Kurram Valley
locatedNear Pakistan–Afghanistan border
locatedOnRiver Kurram River
nearbyCity Hangu
Kohat
Parachinar
partOf Thall Tehsil
postalCountry Pakistan
religionMajority Islam
roadConnection Thall–Parachinar Road
road to Hangu and Kohat
roadJunctionOf roads to Bannu
roads to Hangu
roads to Parachinar
securityStatus high-security zone due to proximity to tribal areas
servedBy Thall Airport
strategicImportance access route to central Kurram and upper Kurram
timeZone Pakistan Standard Time
transportRole transit point for goods to Kurram
usedAs base for operations in Kurram Agency during British rule
utcOffset +05:00

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Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kurram Agency hasTown Thall
Kurram River passesNear Thal
linked to: Thall