What is Kalam Valley?
{{Orphan|date=May 2009}} Kalam is a worth seeing site in [[Swat District|Swat valley]]. Kalam is located at the distance of 100&nbsp;km from the mingora, in the northern upper part of Swat valley. It is located at the bank of the [[Suvastu river]] in [[Khyber Pakhtunkhwa|Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province]]. Kalam is encircled by green hills, thick forests and blessed with mesmerizing Lakes, lively meadows and waterfalls, which make the Valley a must wandering place. It is the birthplace of the [[Swat River]], made of two major tributaries; [[Gabral River]] and [[Ushu River]]. It is a vast sub-valley of Swat; is located at an elevation of about 2,000 meters (6, 562 feet) above sea level, and providing a room for a small but fertile plateau above Swat River, making it ideal for farming. A metalled road ends here in Kalam and a shingled road leads to the Ushu and Utror valleys. Visitors can see the snowy mountains from [[Matiltan]], including [[Falak Sair]] Mountain, with height of 5, 918 meters (19,416 feet) and an unnamed peak of 6,096 meters (20, 000 feet) height. == population == According to the population survey of 2017 the population of Kalam valley is 84,434 <ref>{{Cite journal|last=KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA Government|date=Summer 2017|title=POPULATION AND HOUSEHOLD DETAIL FROM BLOCK TO DISTRICT LEVEL|url=https://www.pbs.gov.pk/sites/default/files/bwpsr/kp/SWAT_BLOCKWISE.pdf|journal=Population Survey of KPK Government}}</ref> persons & no of houses are 9810. == Languages == Kalam and Dir Kohistani (also called Gawri <ref>{{Cite journal|last=by Joan L.G. Baart and Muhammad Zaman Sagar|date=Summer 2020|title=THE GAWRI LANGUAGE OF KALAM AND DIR KOHISTAN|url=https://fli-online.org/documents/languages/gawri/gawri_introduction.pdf|journal=Research}}</ref>) is one of about two dozen languages that are spoken in the mountain areas of northern Pakistan. The name Kohistan in Urdu and Persian means ‘land of mountains’, and Kohistani, when used as the name of a language, can be translated as ‘mountain language’. == Ethnic Group