Kurram District (Urdu: ضلع کرم) is a district of Kohat Division in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The name Kurram comes from the river Kwarma (Pashto: کورمه) in Pashto, which itself derives from the Sanskrit word Krumu (Sanskrit: क्रुमु).
Until 2018, it functioned as an agency of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, however, with the merger of the Tribal Areas with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, it attained the status of a district. Geographically, it covers the Kurram Valley in northwestern Pakistan. Most of the population is Pashtun and the main religion is Islam (Shia and Sunni) in Kurram. Major tribes living in the Kurram District are Bangash, Turi, Orakzai, Wazir, Mamozai, Massozai,Muqbil, Zazai, Mandan(Banusi), Paracha(non Pashtuns), Mangal, Ghilzai, Para Chamkani, Hazara and Khoshi tribe (Persian speaking tribe).