Pakistan
Sindh
Southern Sindh

Karachi

Karachi, the noisy, bustling, ever-growing troubled metropolis of Pakistan, lies on the eastern coast of the Arabian Sea, just northwest of the Indus river delta.
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  • Type: City with 14,900,000 residents
  • Description: provincial capital of Sindh, Pakistan
  • Also known as: “Crotchey”, “Heart of Pakistan”, “Karāchi”, “Karanchi”, “Karatchi”, “Kurrachee”, “Kurrachi”, and “The Lighting City”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include National Museum of Pakistan and Karachi City.

Museum
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
The is a public located in Karachi, Pakistan.

Railway station
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
Railway Station, formerly McLeod Station, is one of the two main Karachi railway terminals along with the . Station is located on I.

Railway station
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
Karachi is one of the busiest and principal railway stations in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. It is situated near Dr. Daudpota Road, .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Saddar and Bath Island.

Town
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Town lies in the that forms much of the historic colonial core of Karachi, in the province of . According to the 2023 Pakistani census, Subdivision has a population 159,363.

Suburb
is a neighbourhood in , Karachi, , . There are several ethnic groups including Muhajirs, Sindhis, Punjabis, Kashmiris, Seraikis, Pakhtuns, Balochis, Memons, Bohras and Ismailis.

Suburb
Aram Bagh, originally known as Ram Bagh is a neighborhood located in historic center of Karachi, that was built around the Aram Bagh Park. Aram Bagh has a high concentration of listed and protected heritage buildings, with many in a good state of conservation.

Karachi

Latitude
24.8547° or 24° 51′ 17″ north
Longitude
67.0207° or 67° 1′ 15″ east
Population
14,900,000
Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)
IATA airport code
KHI
United Nations Location Code
PK KHI
Open location code
7JP9V23C+V7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3181550515
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1174872
Wiki­data ID
Q8660
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Karachi” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Karatsji”
  • Albanian: “Karachi”
  • Albanian: “Karaçi”
  • Amharic: “ከራቺ”
  • Angika: “कराची”
  • Arabic: “كراتشي”
  • Arabic: “كراجي”
  • Aragonese: “Karachi”
  • Armenian: “Կարաչի”
  • Assamese: “কৰাচী”
  • Asturian: “Karachi”
  • Awadhi: “कराची”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kəraçi”
  • Balinese: “Karachi”
  • Bashkir: “Карачи”
  • Basque: “Karatxi”
  • Bavarian: “Karatschi”
  • Belarusian: “Карачы”
  • Bengali: “করাচি”
  • Bengali: “করাচী”
  • Bhojpuri: “कराची”
  • Bosnian: “Karachi”
  • Bosnian: “Karači”
  • Breton: “Karachi”
  • Bulgarian: “Карачи”
  • Burmese: “ကရာချိမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Karachi”
  • Cebuano: “Karachi”
  • Central Kanuri: “Karachi”
  • Central Kurdish: “کەراچی”
  • Chechen: “Карачи”
  • Chinese: “Karachi”
  • Chinese: “克拉嗤”
  • Chinese: “卡拉奇”
  • Chinese: “喀拉蚩”
  • Cornish: “Karachi”
  • Corsican: “Karachi”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Karaçi”
  • Croatian: “Karachi”
  • Croatian: “Karači”
  • Czech: “Karáčí”
  • Danish: “Karachi”
  • Dhivehi: “ކަރާޗީ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Karaçi”
  • Dotyali: “कराची”
  • Dutch: “Karachi”
  • Eastern Mari: “Карачи”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كاراتشى”
  • Erzya: “Карачи ош”
  • Esperanto: “Karaĉio”
  • Estonian: “Karachi”
  • Extremaduran: “Karachi”
  • Faroese: “Karachi”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Karachi”
  • Finnish: “Karachi”
  • French: “Karachi”
  • French: “Karâchi”
  • Galician: “Karachi”
  • Georgian: “კარაჩი”
  • German: “Karatschi”
  • German: “Kurrache”
  • Goan Konkani: “Karachi”
  • Goan Konkani: “कराची”
  • Greek: “Καράτσι”
  • Guarani: “Karachi”
  • Guarani: “Karáchi”
  • Gujarati: “કરાચી”
  • Haitian: “Karachi”
  • Hausa: “Karachi”
  • Hebrew: “קאראצ’י”
  • Hebrew: “קראצ’י”
  • Hebrew: “קראצי”
  • Hebrew: “קרצ’י”
  • Hindi: “कराची”
  • Hungarian: “Karacsi”
  • Icelandic: “Karachi”
  • Ido: “Karachi”
  • Iloko: “Karachi”
  • Indonesian: “Karachi”
  • Ingush: “Карачи”
  • Interlingua: “Karachi”
  • Interlingue: “Karachi”
  • Irish: “Karachi”
  • Italian: “Karachi”
  • Japanese: “カラーチー”
  • Japanese: “カラチ”
  • Javanese: “Karachi”
  • Kabiyè: “Karasii”
  • Kabyle: “Karaci”
  • Kabyle: “Karači”
  • Kalaallisut: “Karachi”
  • Kannada: “ಕರಾಚಿ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Karachi”
  • Kashmiri: “کَرٲچی”
  • Kazakh: “Карачи”
  • Khmer: “ការ៉ាជី”
  • Kikuyu: “Karachi”
  • Kirghiz: “Карачи”
  • Komering: “Karachi”
  • Korean: “카라치”
  • Kurdish: “Keraçî”
  • Ladino: “Karachi”
  • Lao: “ຄາຣາຈີ”
  • Latin: “Karachium”
  • Latvian: “Karači”
  • Latvian: “Karāči”
  • Lezghian: “Карачи”
  • Limburgan: “Karachi”
  • Lingala: “Karaci”
  • Lithuanian: “Karačis”
  • Lombard: “Karachi”
  • Low German: “Karatschi”
  • Luxembourgish: “Karatschi”
  • Macedonian: “Карачи”
  • Magahi: “कराची”
  • Maithili: “कराची”
  • Malay: “Karachi”
  • Malayalam: “കറാച്ചി”
  • Maltese: “Karachi”
  • Maori: “Karachi”
  • Maori: “Karāti”
  • Marathi: “कराची”
  • Mazanderani: “کراچي”
  • Mazanderani: “کراچی”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Karachi”
  • Mingrelian: “კარაჩი”
  • Moksha: “Карачи”
  • Mongolian: “Карачи”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “كاراتشي”
  • Navajo: “Níyol Yiiʼ Haineeztą́ą́ʼí”
  • Nepali: “कराची”
  • Nepali: “कराँची”
  • Newari: “कराची”
  • Northern Frisian: “Karatschi”
  • Northern Sami: “Karachi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Karachi”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Karachi”
  • Norwegian: “Karachi”
  • Nyanja: “Karachi”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Karachi”
  • Oriya: “କରାଚୀ”
  • Ossetian: “Карачи”
  • Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928): “كراچی”
  • Pampanga: “Karátsî”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਰਾਚੀ”
  • Papiamento: “Karachi”
  • Persian: “کراچی”
  • Piemontese: “Karachi”
  • Polish: “Karaći”
  • Polish: “Karaczi”
  • Portuguese: “Carachi”
  • Portuguese: “Karachi”
  • Pushto: “کراچۍ”
  • Quechua: “Karachi”
  • Romanian: “Karachi”
  • Russia Buriat: “Карачи”
  • Russian: “Карачи”
  • Rusyn: “Карачі”
  • Samogitian: “Karačės”
  • Sanskrit: “कराची”
  • Santali: “ᱠᱚᱨᱟᱪᱤ”
  • Saraiki: “کراچی”
  • Scots: “Karachi”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Karachi”
  • Serbian: “Карачи”
  • Serbian: “Срце Пакистана”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Karachi”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “pechs”
  • Sicilian: “Karaci”
  • Silesian: “Karaczi”
  • Sindhi: “روشنين جو شھر”
  • Sindhi: “ڪراچي”
  • Sinhala: “කරච්චිය”
  • Slovak: “Karáči”
  • Slovenian: “Karači”
  • Somali: “Karaaji”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کراچی”
  • Spanish: “Karachi”
  • Swahili: “Karachi”
  • Swedish: “Karachi”
  • Swiss German: “Karatschi”
  • Tagalog: “Karachi”
  • Tajik: “Карачи”
  • Tajik: “Карочӣ”
  • Talysh: “Karaci”
  • Tamil: “கராச்சி”
  • Tatar: “Karaçi”
  • Telugu: “కరాచీ”
  • Thai: “การาจี”
  • Tibetan: “ཀ་ར་ཆི”
  • Tok Pisin: “Karasi”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Karatschi”
  • Turkish: “Karaçi”
  • Turkmen: “Karaçi”
  • Uighur: “كاراچى”
  • Ukrainian: “Карачі”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Karachi”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Karači”
  • Urdu: “کراچی”
  • Urdu: “کیرانچی”
  • Uzbek: “Karachi”
  • Uzbek: “Karochi”
  • Venetian: “Karachi”
  • Veps: “Karači”
  • Vietnamese: “Karachi”
  • Volapük: “Karachi”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Karachi”
  • Welsh: “Karachi”
  • Western Panjabi: “کراچی”
  • Wu Chinese: “卡拉奇”
  • Yakut: “Карачи”
  • Yiddish: “קאראטשי”
  • Yoruba: “Karachi”
  • Yue Chinese: “卡拉奇”
  • “Karachi”
  • “Karācī”
  • “Karačis”
  • “ma tomo Kalasi”
  • “कराची”

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