{{Short description|Town in Pakistan}} {{Use Pakistani English|date=November 2023}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2023}} {{Infobox settlement | settlement_type = Town | name = Bakot | coordinates = {{coord|34|5|39|N|73|29|9|E|region:PK-NW_type:city|display=inline,title}} | coordinates_display = | pushpin_map = Khyber Pakhtunkhwa#Pakistan | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = {{flag|Pakistan}} | subdivision_type1 = Province | subdivision_name1 = {{flag|Khyber Pakhtunkhwa}} | subdivision_type2 = District | subdivision_name2 = Abbottabad | subdivision_type3 = Tehsil | subdivision_name3 = Abbottabad | population_total = 17,466 | population_as_of = 2017 Census of Pakistan | population_footnotes = <ref name="census2017">{{cite web|url=http://www.pbscensus.gov.pk/sites/default/files/bwpsr/kp/ABBOTTABAD_BLOCKWISE.pdf|title=POPULATION AND HOUSEHOLD DETAIL FROM BLOCK TO DISTRICT LEVEL: KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA (ABBOTTABAD DISTRICT) (see page 7 of 36 for Bakot)|date=3 January 2018|access-date=5 November 2023 |publisher=Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, Government of Pakistan website|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180418031736/http://www.pbscensus.gov.pk/sites/default/files/bwpsr/kp/ABBOTTABAD_BLOCKWISE.pdf|archive-date=18 April 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref> }} '''Bakot''' is a town of Abbottabad District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It is located {{convert|45|km|mi}} north of Murree, at the base of the Miranjani peak.<ref>[https://tribune.com.pk/story/2409546/abbottabads-abandoned-colonial-reminder Abbottabad's abandoned colonial reminder]</ref> Bakot serves as principal town of the Union Council of the same name. According to the 2017 Census of Pakistan, the town had a population of 17,466.<ref name="census2017"/><ref name="AbbGov"> {{cite web|url=http://www.abbottabad.gov.pk/ |website= District Government Abbottabad website| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071204045300/http://www.abbottabad.gov.pk/ |archive-date=4 December 2007|access-date=5 November 2023 |url-status=dead|title=Administrative Units of District Abbottabad}}</ref>
==History== In the 1890s Bakot, referred to as Bukot, was mentioned by British geologist Charles Stewart Middlemiss as a 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.<ref name="GeoHazara">[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x002210380&seq=101&q1=Bukot The Geology of Hazara and the Black Mountain]</ref>
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