Bakot

Bakot is a town of Abbottabad District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It lies 45 kilometres north of Murree at the base of the Miranjani peak.^[2] It is the chief town of the Union Council of the same name, according to the 2017 Census of Pakistan, the population is 17,466.^[1][3]

Bakot
Town
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Coordinates: 34°5′39″N 73°29′9″E
Country	Pakistan
Province	Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
District	Abbottabad
Tehsil	Abbottabad
Population  (2017 Census of Pakistan)[1]
• Total	17,466

History

In the 1890s Bakot, referred to as Bukot, was mentioned by British geologist Charles Stewart Middlemiss as village when he was doing a survey of the area as part of his geological fieldwork in Hazara for the colonial era Geological Survey of India.^[4]