# Drazanda

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| subdivision_name2  = [Dera Ismail Khan](/source/Dera_Ismail_Khan_District)
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'''Drazanda''' (also spelled '''Darazinda''' or '''Drazinda''') is a main village or small town in [Dera Ismail Khan District](/source/Dera_Ismail_Khan_District) of [Pakistan](/source/Pakistan)'s [Khyber Pakhtunkhwa](/source/Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa) province. It is the capital of [Darazinda Tehsil](/source/Darazinda_Tehsil) and has a population of 8,842, according to the [2017 Census of Pakistan](/source/2017_Census_of_Pakistan).<ref name="census2017" />

The [Takht-e-Sulaiman](/source/Takht-e-Sulaiman) (Solomon's throne), the highest peak of the [Sulaiman Mountains](/source/Sulaiman_Mountains) is located near Drazanda.<ref name="dawn1">{{Cite web |date=2009-09-05 |title=Geography: Mountains of Pakistan |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/885748 |access-date=2018-02-02 |website=DAWN.COM |language=en-PK}}</ref> At {{convert|3487|m|ft|}}, it is the highest peak in Dera Ismail Khan District and the greater [Shirani](/source/Sherani_District) region.<ref name="dawn12">{{Cite web |date=2009-09-05 |title=Geography: Mountains of Pakistan |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/885748 |access-date=2018-02-02 |website=DAWN.COM |language=en-PK}}</ref> 14th-century [Maghrebi](/source/Maghrebis) explorer [Ibn Battuta](/source/Ibn_Battuta) named Takht-e-Sulaiman as ''Kōh-e Sulaymān'', "Mount of Solomon".<ref>{{cite web |date=October 7, 2002 |title=Sulaiman Mountains, Pakistan |url=http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=10780 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030404053837/http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=10780 |archive-date=April 4, 2003 |access-date=10 Nov 2013 |publisher=[NASA Earth Observatory](/source/NASA_Earth_Observatory)}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Qaisrani |first=Saad |title=To the throne of Sulaiman |url=http://tns.thenews.com.pk/throne-sulaiman/#.WnTZp6iWbIX |access-date=2018-02-02 |website=[The News International](/source/The_News_International) |language=en-PK}}</ref>

==References==
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Category:Populated places in Dera Ismail Khan District

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