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Islamabad

Islamabad

A modern planned city that is well-maintained and well-organised, Islamabad is 's clean, calm, and green capital. Founded in the 1960s, it attracts people from all over Pakistan, and hosts a large number of diplomats, politicians and government employees, making it one of the nation's most cosmopolitan and urbanized cities.
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  • Type: City with 1,010,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Pakistan
  • Also known as: “Islāmābād”, “Islamahbad”, and “اسلام آباد وفاقی دارالحکومت علاقہ”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Islamabad Zoo and Embassy of Brazil.

Zoo
Photo: Farhan, CC BY 2.0.
, previously Marghazar Zoo, was an 82-acre zoo in . It was opened in 1978, and was under the administration of Capital Development Authority of Pakistan before its closure in December 2020 due to its mistreatment of animals.

Government office
The in Islamabad is the diplomatic mission of in . The current Brazilian ambassador to Pakistan is Olyntho Vieira.

Monument
Photo: Muh.Ashar, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a national monument and heritage museum located on the western portion of the Shakarparian Hills in Islamabad, . The monument was constructed to symbolise the unity of the Pakistani people; and is dedicated to those who sacrificed their "today" for a better "tomorrow".

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Saidpur.

Village
Photo: A8junea, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a village and union council located in a ravine in Pakistan in the Margalla Hills, near the overlook, in the .

Islamabad

Latitude
33.7167° or 33° 43′ north
Longitude
73.0667° or 73° 4′ east
Population
1,010,000
Elevation
579 metres (1,900 feet)
IATA airport code
ISB
United Nations Location Code
PK ISB
Open location code
8J5MP388+MM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316440978
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1176615
Wiki­data ID
Q1362
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Islamabad” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Islamabad”
  • Afrikaans: “Islamabad”
  • Albanian: “Islamabadi”
  • Amharic: “ኢስላማባድ”
  • Arabic: “إسلام آباد”
  • Aragonese: “Islamabad”
  • Armenian: “Իսլամաբադ”
  • Assamese: “ইছলামাবাদ”
  • Asturian: “Islamabad”
  • Awadhi: “इस्लामाबाद”
  • Azerbaijani: “İslamabad”
  • Balinese: “Islamabad”
  • Bashkir: “Исламабад”
  • Basque: “Islamabad”
  • Belarusian: “Ісламабад”
  • Bengali: “ইসলামাবাদ”
  • Betawi: “Islamabad”
  • Bosnian: “Islamabad”
  • Breton: “Islamabad”
  • Bulgarian: “Исламабад”
  • Burmese: “အစ္စလာမာဘတ်မြို့”
  • Burmese: “အစ္စ​လာမ်​မာ​ဗတ်​မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Islamabad”
  • Cebuano: “Islamabad (ulohang dakbayan sa Pakistan)”
  • Cebuano: “Islamabad”
  • Central Bikol: “Islamabad”
  • Central Kanuri: “Islamabad”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئیسلاماباد”
  • Chechen: “Исламабад”
  • Chinese: “Islamabad”
  • Chinese: “伊斯兰堡”
  • Chinese: “伊斯兰巴德”
  • Chinese: “伊斯兰玛巴德”
  • Chinese: “伊斯蘭堡”
  • Chinese: “伊斯蘭瑪巴德”
  • Crimean Tatar: “İslamabad”
  • Croatian: “Islamabad”
  • Czech: “Islámábád”
  • Danish: “Islamabad”
  • Dhivehi: “އިސްލާމްއާބާދު”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Islamabad”
  • Dimli (individual language): “İslamabad”
  • Dotyali: “इस्लामाबाद”
  • Dutch: “Islamabad”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اسلام اباد”
  • Esperanto: “Islamabado”
  • Estonian: “Islamabad”
  • Estonian: “Islāmābād”
  • Faroese: “Islamabad”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Islamabad”
  • Finnish: “Islamabad”
  • French: “Islamabad”
  • French: “Islāmābād”
  • Fulah: “Islamabad”
  • Galician: “Islamabad”
  • Georgian: “ისლამაბადი”
  • German: “Islamabad”
  • Greek: “Ισλαμαμπάντ”
  • Gujarati: “ઇસ્લામાબાદ”
  • Haitian: “Islamabad”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Islamabad”
  • Hausa: “Islamabad”
  • Hebrew: “איסלמבאד”
  • Hebrew: “איסלמבד”
  • Hebrew: “אסלאמאבאד”
  • Hindi: “इस्लामाबाद”
  • Hungarian: “Iszlámábád”
  • Icelandic: “Islamabad”
  • Ido: “Islamabad”
  • Iloko: “Islamabad”
  • Inari Sami: “Islamabad”
  • Indonesian: “Islamabad”
  • Interlingua: “Islamabad”
  • Interlingue: “Islamabad”
  • Irish: “Islamabad”
  • Italian: “Islamabad”
  • Japanese: “イスラーマーバード首都圏”
  • Japanese: “イスラマバード”
  • Javanese: “Islamabad”
  • Kabyle: “Islamabad”
  • Kalaallisut: “Islamabad”
  • Kannada: “ಇಸ್ಲಾಮಾಬಾದ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Islamabad”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “İslamabad”
  • Kashmiri: “اِسلام آباد”
  • Kashmiri: “اِسلام آبادٖ”
  • Kazakh: “Исламабад”
  • Kikuyu: “Islamabad”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Islamabad”
  • Kirghiz: “Исламабад”
  • Komering: “Islamabad”
  • Korean: “이슬라마바드”
  • Kurdish: “Îslamabad”
  • Latin: “Islamabada”
  • Latvian: “Islamabada”
  • Latvian: “Islāmābāda”
  • Lezghian: “Исламабад”
  • Ligurian: “Islamabad”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Islamabad”
  • Lithuanian: “Islamabadas”
  • Livvi: “Islamabad”
  • Lombard: “Islamabad”
  • Luxembourgish: “Islamabad”
  • Macedonian: “Исламабад”
  • Magahi: “इस्लामाबाद्”
  • Maithili: “इस्लामाबाद”
  • Malay: “Islamabad”
  • Malayalam: “ഇസ്ലാമബാദ്”
  • Maltese: “Islamabad”
  • Maori: “Islamabad”
  • Marathi: “इस्लामाबाद”
  • Mazanderani: “اسلام آباد”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Islamabad”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Islamabad”
  • Minangkabau: “Islamabad”
  • Mingrelian: “ისლამაბადი”
  • Mirandese: “Islamabad”
  • Moksha: “Исламабад”
  • Mongolian: “Исламабад”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “إسلام أباد”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “إسلاماباد”
  • Navajo: “Dį́į́ʼyaaʼáhí”
  • Neapolitan: “Islamabad”
  • Nepali: “इस्लामाबाद”
  • Northern Frisian: “Islamabad”
  • Northern Luri: “اسلام آباد”
  • Northern Sami: “Islamabad”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Islamabad”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Islamabad”
  • Norwegian: “Islamabad”
  • Novial: “Islamabad”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Islamabad”
  • Oriya: “ଇସଲାମାବାଦ”
  • Ossetian: “Исламабад”
  • Pampanga: “Islámábad”
  • Panjabi: “ਇਸਲਾਮਾਬਾਦ”
  • Papiamento: “Islamabad”
  • Persian: “اسلام‌آباد”
  • Piemontese: “Islamabad”
  • Polish: “Islamabad”
  • Portuguese: “Islamabad”
  • Portuguese: “Islamabade”
  • Pushto: “اسلام آباد”
  • Pushto: “اسلام اباد”
  • Romanian: “Islamabad”
  • Romanian: “Islāmābād”
  • Russian: “Исламабад”
  • Sakizaya: “Yi-se-lan-ma-pa-de”
  • Samogitian: “Islamabads”
  • Sanskrit: “इस्लामाबाद”
  • Sanskrit: “इस्लामाबाद्”
  • Santali: “ᱤᱥᱞᱟᱢᱟᱵᱟᱫᱽ”
  • Saraiki: “اسلام آباد”
  • Sardinian: “Islamabad”
  • Scots: “Islamabad”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Islamabad”
  • Serbian: “Исламабад”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Islamabad”
  • Shona: “Islamabad”
  • Sicilian: “Islamabad”
  • Silesian: “Islamabad”
  • Sindhi: “اسلام آباد”
  • Sinhala: “ඉස්ලාමාබාද්”
  • Slovak: “Islamabad”
  • Slovenian: “Islamabad”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ایسلام آباد”
  • Spanish: “Islamabad”
  • Sundanese: “Islamabad”
  • Swahili: “Islamabad”
  • Swedish: “Islamabad”
  • Tachelhit: “Islamabad”
  • Tagalog: “Islamabad”
  • Tajik: “Исламабад”
  • Tajik: “Исломобод”
  • Talysh: “Islamabad”
  • Talysh: “İslamabad”
  • Tamil: “இசுலாமாபாத்து”
  • Tamil: “இஸ்லமாபாத்”
  • Tamil: “இஸ்லாமாபாத்”
  • Tatar: “İslamabad”
  • Telugu: “ఇస్లామాబాద్”
  • Thai: “อิสลามาบัด”
  • Thai: “อิสลามาบาด”
  • Tibetan: “ཨི་སི་ལམ་བོ།”
  • Turkish: “İslamabad”
  • Turkmen: “Yslamabat”
  • Udmurt: “Исламабад”
  • Uighur: “ئىسلامئاباد”
  • Ukrainian: “Ісламабад”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Islamabad”
  • Urdu: “اسلام آباد”
  • Uzbek: “Islomobod”
  • Venetian: “Islamabad”
  • Veps: “Islamabad”
  • Vietnamese: “Islamabad”
  • Volapük: “Islamabad”
  • Võro: “Islamabad”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Islamabad”
  • Welsh: “Islamabad”
  • Western Frisian: “Islamabad”
  • Western Panjabi: “اسلام آباد”
  • Wu Chinese: “伊斯兰堡”
  • Yakut: “Исламабад”
  • Yiddish: “איסלאמאבאד”
  • Yoruba: “Islàmabad”
  • Yue Chinese: “伊斯蘭堡”
  • Zulu: “i-Islamabad”
  • “Islamabad”
  • “Islāmābād”
  • “Islamabads”

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