[2][3][4][5][6] During British rule Charsadda was the North-western tehsil of Peshawar District, its boundaries were larger than today lying between 34°2' and 34°32' N. and 71° 30' and 71° 56'E, with an area of 380 square miles (980 km2).

It contained three towns, Charsadda, Prang (19,354) and Tangi, with 168 villages.

The tehsil consisted of the doab and the Hashtnagar tappas or circles.

The former lies between the Adizai branch of the Kabul river and the Swat, and is fertile, highly cultivated, with numerous villages, and better wooded than other parts of the District; even the uplands which run along the foot of the Mohmand hills for their whole length are now irrigated by private canals.

The Hashtnagar tappa comprises a strip of plain country with a rich clay soil, which stretches 10 miles (16 km) eastward of the Swat, and from the Utman Khel hills on the north to the Kabul River on the south.

[7] The tehsil is administratively subdivided into 34 Union Councils, four of which form the headquarters - Charsadda.

[9] List of Union Councils in Tehsil Charsadda [2] 1.

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