CNIC REGIONAL CODE · K-PK

173 Peshawar

CNIC numbers beginning 173 were registered in Peshawar District, Peshawar Division, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. See the tehsils it covers, its documented local-zone codes, and what each digit of the prefix stands for.

DOCUMENTED ANCHOR CODE

173
PROVINCE
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
DIVISION
Peshawar DivisionDigit 2 of the prefix — 7
DISTRICT
Peshawar District
TEHSILS
4Peshawar City · Peshawar Rural · Chamkani · Mathra

What 173 tells you

A Pakistani CNIC is thirteen digits long, and the first five of them are not random. They are a location record, written at the moment the card was registered. A card whose number opens with 173 was registered in Peshawar District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, in Peshawar Division.

Reading it left to right: 1 is the province digit and is definitive — 1 always means Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. 7 selects the division inside that province, here Peshawar Division. 3 selects the district inside that division, which gives us Peshawar. The two digits that follow — positions four and five — narrow it further to a local registration zone inside the district.

WHAT IT DOES NOT TELL YOUThe prefix is a registration record, not an address. It does not prove where someone lives now, it is not a domicile certificate, and it says nothing about ethnicity or nationality beyond Pakistani citizenship. People who move keep the prefix they were first registered under.

TEHSILS OF PESHAWAR

Peshawar District is divided into 4 administrative tehsils. NADRA’s internal registration zones do not map one-to-one onto tehsil boundaries, so treat this as the administrative picture rather than a decoder for digits four and five.

ADMINISTRATIVE TEHSILS · PESHAWAR DISTRICT
#TehsilDistrictProvince
1Peshawar CityPeshawarKhyber Pakhtunkhwa
2Peshawar RuralPeshawarKhyber Pakhtunkhwa
3ChamkaniPeshawarKhyber Pakhtunkhwa
4MathraPeshawarKhyber Pakhtunkhwa

DOCUMENTED LOCAL ZONES UNDER 173

These are the five-digit codes this register can name for Peshawar District. Codes not listed here still exist — NADRA has simply never published the full zone table.

17301Peshawar — city registration zoneDocumented anchor

OTHER DISTRICTS IN PESHAWAR DIVISION

171CharsaddaDerived code172NowsheraDerived code

COMMON QUESTIONS

Which district is CNIC code 173?

173 belongs to Peshawar District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, within Peshawar Division.

Digit 1 (1) is the province, digit 2 (7) the division, and digit 3 (3) the district within that division.

Does a 173 CNIC mean the holder lives in Peshawar?

No. The regional prefix records where the card was registered with NADRA, not where the holder lives now. People who move, or who register at a family address, keep the original prefix.

It is also not proof of domicile. Domicile is a separate certificate issued by the district administration.

Which tehsils fall under Peshawar District?

Peshawar District covers 4 administrative tehsils: Peshawar City, Peshawar Rural, Chamkani, Mathra.

Tehsil boundaries and NADRA's internal registration zones are not the same thing, so the last two digits of a CNIC do not map one-to-one onto this list.

What comes after 173 in a full CNIC?

A complete CNIC is thirteen digits: the five-digit regional prefix, then a seven-digit family/serial number, then a single check digit that also encodes gender (odd for male, even for female).

For Peshawar, this register documents 1 local-zone code: 17301.

How reliable is the code 173?

173 is a documented anchor code — it appears consistently in public records and published examples, so the district mapping is solid.

NADRA has never released a complete district-to-prefix table, which is why this register marks every entry as either a documented anchor or a derived code.

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Sources. Administrative data adapted from Wikipedia (CNIC, Administrative units of Pakistan, Districts of Pakistan) under CC BY-SA 4.0, with changes; prefix mapping cross-checked against public administrative and community-compiled lists. Reviewed 2026-09-02. Full sources, accuracy and ethics. Unofficial reference — not affiliated with NADRA, and not proof of identity or domicile.