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Pakistan is a country in South Asia with a costline on the Arabian Sea in south. The Islamic Republic of Pakistan (official name) is bordered byAfghanistan, China, India, and Iran. The country occupies an area of 796,095 km², compared it is slightly larger than Turkey (783,562 km²) or slightly less than twice the size of the U.S. state of California. Pakistan's terrain is made up by the flat Indus plain in east, characterised by the Indus, the country's longest river and a key water resources. Pakistan's north is dominated by mountains in north and northwest and in west by the Balochistan plateau, the western part of the Iranian plateau. Highst elevation in the country is K2 with 8,611 m, it is the second-highest mountain on Earth, located on the border between Pakistan and China in the Himalayas. The mountain is also known as Mt. Godwin-Austen, Chhogori/Qogir, and Ketu/Kechu. Pakistan has a population of 183 million people (data from Statistics Division, 2013). Capital is Islamabad. Main port, largest city and business capital of Pakistan is Karachi, second largest city is Lahore. Other major Pakistani cities: Faisalabad, Rawalpindi, Multan, Gujranwala, Hyderabad, Peshawar, and Quetta. Spoken languages are Urdu, English (both official), Punjabi, Sindhi, and Pashto. Map is showing Pakistan and surrounding countries with international borders, the national capital, provincial capitals, major cities, main roads, railroads and major airports. |
Depicted on the map are the location of following Pakistani cities and towns (ordered by provinces, province capital in parentheses): Gilgit-Baltistan (Gilgit) Chitral, Mardan, Saidu, and Skardu. North-West Frontier Province or Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Peshawar) Tank, Bannu, Mardan, Chitral, and Saidu. Azad Kashmir (Muzaffarabad) Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Peshawar) Parachinar Punjab (Lahore) Bahawalpur, Dera Ghazi Khan, Dera Ismail Khan, Faisalabad, Gujranwala, Gujrat, Jhang Sadr, Kasur, Multan, Rahimyar Khan, Rawalpindi, Sahiwal, Sargodha, Shujaabad, and Sialkot. Balochistan (Quetta) Jiwani, Gwadar, Pasni, Ormara, Panjgur, Surab, Nok Kundi, Sibi, Chaman, Zhob, Dalbandin, Khuzdar, Belaurbat, and Hoshab. Sind (Karachi) Jacobabad, Shikarpur, Hyderabad, Mirpur Khas, Nawabshaw, Khairpur, Larkana, Sukkur, Sanghar, Matli, Thatta, Moro, and Dadu. |
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