Kurram District

Kurram District ضلع کرم
District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Top: View of Kurram from Paktia Border Bottom: Mountains near Parachinar
Kurram District (red) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Country	Pakistan
Province	Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Division	Kohat
Headquarter	Parachinar
Number of Tehsils	3
Government
• Type	District Administration
• District Health Officer	N/A
Area [1]
• District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa	3,380 km2 (1,310 sq mi)
Population  (2023)[2]
• District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa	785,434
• Density	230/km2 (600/sq mi)
• Urban	45,471
• Rural	739,963
Time zone	UTC+5 (PST)
Main language	Pashto (98.6%) (1998 census)[1]: 20
Website	kurram.kp.gov.pk

Kurram District (Urdu: ضلع کرم) is a district in the Kohat Division of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The name Kurram comes from the river Kwarma (Pashto: کورمه) in Pashto which itself derives from the Sanskrit word Krumu (Sanskrit: क्रुमुः).^[3][4][5]

Until 2018, it functioned as an agency of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas. However, with the merger of the FATA with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, it attained the status of a district. Geographically, it covers the Kurram Valley region which is a valley in the northwestern of Pakistan.^[6] Most of the population is Pashtun and the main religion is Islam (Shia and Sunni) in Kurram. Major tribes living in the Kurram District are Bangash, Turi, Orakzai, Wazir, Mamozai, Muqbil, Zazai, Mandan(Banusi), Paracha(non Pashtuns), Mangal, Ghilzai, Para Chamkani, Hazara and Khoshi tribe (Persian speaking tribe).

Up until the year 2000, when the previous administrative divisions were abolished, the Kurram District was part of the Peshawar Division in the North-West Frontier Province (Now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) of Pakistan.^{[citation needed]}