Mardan
Mardan
مردان | |
|---|---|
City | |
Mardan's Guides Memorial was built in 1892 to honour fallen soldiers who fought during the 1879 Siege of the British Residency in Kabul | |
| Coordinates: 34°12′4.4″N 72°01′33″E / 34.201222°N 72.02583°E | |
| Country | Pakistan |
| Province | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa |
| District | Mardan |
| Tehsil | Mardan |
| Government | |
| • Type | Mayor-council |
| • Body | District Government |
| • Mayor | Hamayatullah Mayar (ANP) |
| • Commissioner | Syed Abdul Jabar Shah |
| • Deputy Commissioner | Habibullah Arif |
| • Deputy Inspector General of Police | Yaseen Khalil |
| Elevation | 310 m (1,020 ft) |
| Population (2023) | |
• City | 368,302 |
| • Rank | 25th, Pakistan 2nd, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa |
| Mardan Municipal Committee: 363,788 Mardan Cantonment: 4,514 | |
| Time zone | UTC+5 (PST) |
| Calling code | +92 937 |
| Website | mardan |
Mardān is a city in the Mardan District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. Located in the Valley of Peshawar, Mardan is the second-largest city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (after Peshawar). It is a fast-growing city that experienced a population boom in the latter half of the 20th century.
Around 1800 BCE, the area around Mardan was part of the homeland of the Gandhara grave culture. Rock edicts of the ancient Indian King Ashoka in the nearby Shahbaz Garhi, written in the right-to-left Kharosthi script, date from the Mauryan period (mid-200s BCE) and represent the earliest irrefutable evidence of writing in South Asia. The nearby Takht-i-Bahi which has remains of an ancient Buddhist monastery was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1980.