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Country	Pakistan
Province	Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Divisions	Kohat Division
Districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa	Karak District
Tehsil	Karak Tehsil
Elevation	548 m (1,798 ft)
Population  (2017)
• City	51,149
• Rank	24th, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Time zone	UTC+5 (PST)

Karak (Pashto: کرك, Urdu: کرک ) is the headquarters of Karak District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is 123  km from Peshawar on the main Indus Highway between Peshawar and Karachi. It is located at 33°7'12N 71°5'41E. Karak is said to be the single district in Pakistan that is inhabited by only one tribe of Pashtuns — the Khattaks.

Karak is a fast-growing city with just over 50,000 people. It is the second-largest city in Kohat Division and is the only urbanized area and namesake of Karak District. Karak's population nearly doubled between 1998 and 2017. The dominant language in the city is Pashto, which nearly everybody speaks. The city was first labeled an urban area between the 1972 and 1981 Pakistan censuses.