Peshawar is a geographic proper noun—the capital of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. In English, it’s commonly pronounced with three syllables and stress on the first: PE-sha-war, though some speakers reduce to PE-sha-war or PES-ha-war in rapid speech. It’s used in news, geopolitics, and travel contexts to refer to the city and its surrounding region.
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