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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_North-West_Frontier_Province#British_era NWF Province - British Era] Wikipedia
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_North-West_Frontier_Province#British_era NWF Province - British Era] Wikipedia
*[http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~poyntz/India/images/AfghanFrontier.JPG Rootsweb - North West Frontier Map]
*[http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~poyntz/India/images/AfghanFrontier.JPG Rootsweb - North West Frontier Map]
*[http://kingscollections.org/servingsoldier/index.php?id=699 Sketching the Afghan border - The Serving Soldier]
*[https://kingscollections.org/servingsoldier/collection/sketching-the-afghan-border/ Sketching the Afghan Border] Watercolours and sketches of the North West Frontier Province, India, 1909-1913, by an unknown artist. King’s College London Collections: The Serving Soldier.
===Historical books online===
===Historical books online===
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/northwestfrontie00calcuoft#page/n3/mode/2up ''Imperial Gazetteer of India Provincial Series. North - West Frontier Province''] 1908 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/northwestfrontie00calcuoft#page/n3/mode/2up ''Imperial Gazetteer of India Provincial Series. North - West Frontier Province''] 1908 Archive.org

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Map of the province

Also seen as North-West Frontier Province, Northwest Frontier Province, N W F Province or NWFP.

North West Frontier Province was created out of Punjab in 1901. It was part of the Bengal Presidency and it is now a province of Pakistan. In April 2010, the name of the province was official changed to Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa by passage of an amendment to the Constitution.

History

North West Frontier Campaigns

Capital

Districts

It consisted of five districts.

Cities/Towns

Regions

Princely States

The following princely states were located in the region and included into it after Partition.

Forts

For images see: Forts of the Frontier

Passes

External Links

Historical books online

Volume 1 (1919 reprint); Volume 2 A – K 1911 ; Volume 3 L – Z with appendices A -L 1914.