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Pakistan

A virtual guide to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, a country in South Asia with a coastline on
the Arabian Sea in south. Pakistan is bordered by Afghanistan, China, India, and Iran.

Within Pakistan's landscape there is the flat fertile Indus plain in east, nurtured by the Indus, the
country's longest river and a key water resource. Pakistan's north is mountainous. The nation's
highest mountains are in the Himalayas in north east. Pakistan's largest and least populated
province is Balochistan situated on the Balochistan Plateau in the south and west.

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 has a population of 188 million people (data from Statistics Division, 2015).
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 (a form of Hindustani), English (both official), Punjabi, Sindhi, Dari,
Balochi, and Pashto

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