Karak (Pashto: کرك, Urdu: کرک pronounceⓘ) is the headquarters of Karak District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

[2] Karak is said to be the single district in Pakistan that is inhabited by only one tribe of Pashtuns — the Khattaks.

It is the second-largest city in Kohat Division and is the only urbanized area and namesake of Karak District.

[1] The dominant language in the city is Pashto, which nearly everybody speaks.

The city was first labeled an urban area between the 1972 and 1981 Pakistan censuses.