Mardān (Pashto, Urdu: مردان; Urdu About this soundpronunciation (help·info); Pashto: About this soundpronunciation (help·info)) is a city in the Mardan District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan.[2] Located in the Valley of Peshawar, Mardan is the second-largest city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (after Peshawar).[3][4] It is a fast-growing city that experienced a population boom in the latter half of the twentieth century.
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 Mardan's Guides Memorial was built in 1892 to honour fallen soldiers who fought during the 1879 Siege of the British Residency in Kabul Mardan is located in GandharaMardanMardan Location within Pakistan Show map of Gandhara Show map of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Show map of Pakistan Show all Coordinates: 34°12′4.4″N 72°01′33″E Country
Pakistan
Province
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
District Mardan Tehsil Mardan Government
• Commissioner
Zakir Hussain Afridi
• Deputy Inspector General of Police
Aalam Shinwari Elevation 310 m (1,020 ft) Population (2017)[1]
• City
358,604
• Rank
23rd, Pakistan 2nd, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Mardan Municipal Committee: 351,733 Mardan Cantonment: 6,871 Time zone UTC+5 (PST) Calling code +92 937 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.[5] The nearby Takht-i-Bahi which has remains of an ancient Buddhist monastery was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1980.[6]