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Pakistan

The Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a country at the crossroads of Western, , and . Conceived as a separate homeland for Muslims in South Asia, the country's tourism industry had its heyday during the 1960s thanks to the Hippie Trail.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Karachi and Lahore.

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, 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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is Pakistan's second largest city after , and the capital of the north-eastern Punjab province. It is widely considered the country's cultural capital.

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A modern planned city that is well-maintained and well-organised, is Pakistan'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.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Punjab and Sindh.

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is one of the four provinces of Pakistan, and home to over half the country's population. It is the second largest province in area after , and is the most developed and prosperous province.

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, the historical home to the Sindhi people is the second most populated administrative unit of Pakistan after Punjab, with a population of over 45 million people.

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, borders the rest of Pakistan to the south and east, central to the west, and the to the north. The region has a varied landscape including rugged mountains, valleys, hills and dense agricultural farms.

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or Baluchistan is one of four provinces in Pakistan. It is the largest of the four provinces and is the future of Pakistan's CPEC project.

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, formerly known as the Northern Areas is the northernmost political entity under the administrative control of Pakistan. According to Pakistan's constitution, is an autonomous region separate from Pakistan, and its inhabitants have never had any representation in Pakistan's parliament.

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Azad Jammu and Kashmir or, for short, , is part of the Pakistani-controlled portion of Kashmir, lying west of Indian-controlled .

Pakistan

Latitude of center
30° north
Longitude of center
70° east
Population
173,000,000
Area
803,940 km² (310,403 miles²)
Elevation
1,721 metres (5,646 feet)
Capital
Currency
Rupee (PKR)
Phone code
.pk
Internet domain
92
Open­Street­Map ID
node 424314088
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
1168579
Wiki­data ID
Q843
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Pakistan” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Pakistan”
  • Adyghe: “Пакистан”
  • Afrikaans: “Pakistan”
  • Akan: “Pakistan”
  • Albanian: “Pakistan”
  • Albanian: “Pakistani”
  • Amharic: “ፓኪስታን”
  • Amis: “PAK”
  • Amis: “Pakistan”
  • Angika: “पाकिस्तान”
  • Arabic: “الباكستان”
  • Arabic: “باكستان”
  • Arabic: “جمهورية باكستان الإسلامية”
  • Aragonese: “Pakistán”
  • Armenian: “Պակիստան”
  • Arpitan: “Paquistan”
  • Assamese: “পাকিস্তান”
  • Asturian: “Pakistán”
  • Asturian: “Paquistán”
  • Atayal: “Pakistan”
  • Avaric: “Пакистан”
  • Awadhi: “पाकिस्तान”
  • Aymara: “Pakistan”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pakistan İslam Respublikası”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pakistan Respublikası”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pakistan”
  • Azerbaijani: “PİR”
  • Azerbaijani: “pk”
  • Balinese: “Pakistan”
  • Bambara: “Pakisitaŋ”
  • Banjar: “Pakistan”
  • Bashkir: “Пакистан”
  • Basque: “Pakistan”
  • Basque: “Pakistango Islamiar Errepublika”
  • Batak Mandailing: “Pakistan”
  • Bavarian: “Pakistan”
  • Belarusian: “Пакістан”
  • Bengali: “ইসলামী প্রজাতন্ত্রী পাকিস্তান”
  • Bengali: “পাকিস্তান”
  • Betawi: “Pakistan”
  • Bhojpuri: “पाकिस्तान इस्लामी गणतंत्र”
  • Bhojpuri: “पाकिस्तान”
  • Bishnupriya: “পাকিস্তান”
  • Bislama: “Pakistan”
  • Bosnian: “Pakistan”
  • Brahui: “Pákistán”
  • Breton: “Pakistan”
  • Buginese: “Pakisitang”
  • Buginese: “ᨄᨀᨗᨔᨗᨈ”
  • Bulgarian: “Пакистан”
  • Burmese: “ပါကစ္စတန်”
  • Burmese: “ပါကစ္စတန်နိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Pakistan”
  • Catalan: “República Islàmica del Pakistan”
  • Cebuano: “Pakistan”
  • Central Bikol: “Pakistan”
  • Central Kanuri: “Pakistan”
  • Central Kurdish: “پاکستان”
  • Central Kurdish: “کۆماری ئیسلامیی پاکستان”
  • Chamorro: “Pakistan”
  • Chavacano: “Pakistan”
  • Chechen: “Пакистан”
  • Cherokee: “ᏆᎩᏍᏖᏂ”
  • Chinese: “Bājīsītǎn”
  • Chinese: “Pakistan”
  • Chinese: “巴国”
  • Chinese: “巴基”
  • Chinese: “巴基国”
  • Chinese: “巴基斯坦”
  • Church Slavic: “Пакистанъ”
  • Chuvash: “Пакистан”
  • Cornish: “Pakistan”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Pakistan”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Pakîstan”
  • Croatian: “Islamska Republika Pakistan”
  • Croatian: “Pakistan”
  • Czech: “Islámská republika Pákistán”
  • Czech: “Pákistán”
  • Dagbani: “Pakistan”
  • Danish: “Pakistan”
  • Dhivehi: “ޕާކިސްތާން”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Pakıstan”
  • Dotyali: “इस्लामी जम्हूरिया पाकिस्तान”
  • Dotyali: “पाकिस्तान इस्लामी गणतंत्र”
  • Dotyali: “पाकिस्तान”
  • Dutch: “Islamitische Republiek Pakistan”
  • Dutch: “PAK”
  • Dutch: “Pakistan”
  • Dutch: “PK”
  • Dzongkha: “པ་ཀི་སཏཱན”
  • Dzongkha: “པཱ་ཀིསི་ཐན།”
  • Eastern Mari: “Пакистан”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “باكستان”
  • Erzya: “Пакистан”
  • Esperanto: “Islama Respubliko Pakistano”
  • Esperanto: “Pakistano”
  • Esperanto: “pk”
  • Estonian: “Pakistan”
  • Estonian: “Pakistani Islamivabariik”
  • Ewe: “Pakistan nutome”
  • Extremaduran: “Paquistán”
  • Faroese: “Pakistan”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Pakistan”
  • Finnish: “Pakistan”
  • Finnish: “Pakistanin islamilainen tasavalta”
  • French: “la République islamique du Pakistan”
  • French: “PAK”
  • French: “Pakistan”
  • French: “pk”
  • French: “PK”
  • French: “République islamique du Pakistan”
  • Fulah: “Pakistaan”
  • Fulah: “Pakistan”
  • Gagauz: “Pakistan”
  • Galician: “Paquistán”
  • Galician: “República Islámica de Paquistán”
  • Gan Chinese: “巴基斯坦”
  • Ganda: “Pakisitaani”
  • Georgian: “პაკისტანი”
  • German: “Pakistan”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Pakistan”
  • Gilaki: “پاکستان”
  • Goan Konkani: “Pakistan”
  • Goan Konkani: “पाकिस्तान”
  • Gorontalo: “Pakistan”
  • Greek: “Ισλαμική Δημοκρατία του Πακιστάν”
  • Greek: “Πακιστάν”
  • Guarani: “Pakistán”
  • Guarani: “Pakitã”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Pakistan”
  • Gujarati: “કરાંચી”
  • Gujarati: “પાકિસ્તાન”
  • Haitian: “Pakistan”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Pâ-kî-sṳ̂-thán”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Pakistan”
  • Hausa: “Pakistan”
  • Hawaiian: “Pakitana”
  • Hebrew: “פקיסטאן”
  • Hebrew: “פקיסטן”
  • Hindi: “इस्लामी जम्हूरिया पाकिस्तान”
  • Hindi: “पाकिस्तान इस्लामी गणतंत्र”
  • Hindi: “पाकिस्तान”
  • Hungarian: “Pakisztán”
  • Hungarian: “Pakisztáni Iszlám Köztársaság”
  • Iban: “Pakistan”
  • Icelandic: “Pakistan”
  • Ido: “Pakistan”
  • Igbo: “Pakistan”
  • Iloko: “Pakistan”
  • Inari Sami: “Pakistan islamlâš täsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Pakistan”
  • Indonesian: “Pakistan”
  • Ingush: “Пакистан”
  • Interlingua: “Pakistan”
  • Interlingue: “Pakistan”
  • Inuktitut: “ᐸᑭᔅᑕᓐ”
  • Irish: “an Phacastáin”
  • Irish: “An Phacastáin”
  • Italian: “Pakistan”
  • Italian: “Repubblica islamica del Pakistan”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Pakistan”
  • Japanese: “パキスタン・イスラム共和国”
  • Japanese: “パキスタン”
  • Javanese: “Pakistan”
  • Kabardian: “Пакистэн”
  • Kabiyè: “Pakisitaanɩ”
  • Kabyle: “Pakistan”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Pakistan”
  • Kalaallisut: “Pakistan”
  • Kalaallisut: “Pakistani”
  • Kalmyk: “Сарта Паксин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಪಾಕಿಸ್ತಾನ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Pakistan”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Пакистан”
  • Kashmiri: “پٲکِستان”
  • Kashmiri: “پاکِستان”
  • Kashubian: “Pakistan”
  • Kazakh: “Пәкістан”
  • Khmer: “ប៉ាគីស្ថាន”
  • Kikuyu: “Pakistan”
  • Kikuyu: “Pakistani”
  • Kinaray-A: “Republika Islamanën kang Pakistan”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Pakisitani”
  • Kirghiz: “Пакистан”
  • Komering: “Pakistan”
  • Komi: “Пакистан”
  • Kongo: “Pakistan”
  • Korean: “파키스탄”
  • Kurdish: “Pakistan”
  • Kurdish: “پاکستان”
  • Ladin: “Pachistan”
  • Ladin: “PK”
  • Ladino: “Pakistan”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດປາກີສະຖານ”
  • Lao: “ປາກິດສະຖານ”
  • Latin: “Pakistania”
  • Latvian: “Pakistāna”
  • Latvian: “Pakistānas Islāma Republika”
  • Lezghian: “Пакистан”
  • Ligurian: “Pakistan”
  • Limburgan: “Pakistan”
  • Lingala: “Pakisitá”
  • Lingala: “Pakistáni”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Pacistan”
  • Literary Chinese: “巴基斯坦”
  • Lithuanian: “Pakistanas”
  • Livvi: “Pakistuanu”
  • Lojban: “kisygu’e”
  • Lojban: “kisygue”
  • Lombard: “Pakistan”
  • Low German: “Pakistan”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Pakistan”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Pakisita”
  • Luxembourgish: “Islamesch Republik Pakistan”
  • Luxembourgish: “Pakistan”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Pakistan”
  • Macedonian: “Пакистан”
  • Madurese: “Pakistan”
  • Maithili: “पाकिस्तान”
  • Malagasy: “Pakistan”
  • Malagasy: “Pakistàna”
  • Malay: “Pakistan”
  • Malay: “ريڤوبليک إسلام ڤاکيستن”
  • Malay: “ڤاکيستن”
  • Malayalam: “പാകിസ്താൻ”
  • Malayalam: “പാക്കിസ്ഥാൻ”
  • Maltese: “il-Pakistan”
  • Maltese: “Pakistan”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika Iżlamika tal-Pakistan”
  • Manipuri: “ꯄꯥꯀꯤꯁ꯭ꯇꯥꯟ”
  • Manx: “Yn Phakistaan”
  • Maori: “Pakitāne”
  • Marathi: “पाकिस्तान”
  • Mazanderani: “پاکئون”
  • Mazanderani: “پاکستان”
  • Mazanderani: “پاکستون”
  • Mazanderani: “پاکیستان”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Pakistan”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Pa-ki-su-thán”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Pa-ki-su-thàn”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Pakistan”
  • Minangkabau: “Pakistan”
  • Mingrelian: “პაკისტანი”
  • Mingrelian: “პაკისტანიშ ისლამურ რესპუბლიკა”
  • Mingrelian: “პაკისტანიშ რესპუბლიკა”
  • Mirandese: “Paquistan”
  • Moksha: “Пакистан”
  • Mongolian: “Пакистан”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “پاكيستان”
  • Mossi: “Pakistan”
  • Nauru: “Pakistan”
  • Navajo: “Eʼeʼaahjí Naakaii Dootłʼizhí Bikéyah”
  • Neapolitan: “Pakistan”
  • Nepali: “इस्लामी गणतन्त्र पाकिस्तान”
  • Nepali: “पाकिस्तान”
  • Newari: “पाकिस्तान”
  • Nias: “Pakistan”
  • North Ndebele: “Phakistani”
  • Northern Frisian: “Pakistaan”
  • Northern Luri: “پاکستان”
  • Northern Sami: “Pakistan islamlaš dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Pakistan”
  • Northern Sami: “Pakistana islamlaš dásseváldi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Den islamske republikken Pakistan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pakistan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pakistan”
  • Norwegian: “Pakistan”
  • Novial: “Pakistan”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Paquistan”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܦܐܩܣܛܐܢ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Pacistan”
  • Oriya: “ପାକିସ୍ତାନ”
  • Oriya: “ପାକିସ୍ଥାନ”
  • Oromo: “Paakistaan”
  • Ossetian: “Пакистан”
  • Pali: “पाकिस्तान”
  • Pampanga: “Pakistan”
  • Pampanga: “Pákistan”
  • Pampanga: “Republikang Islámî ning Pákistan”
  • Panjabi: “ਪਾਕਿਸਤਾਨ”
  • Papiamento: “Pakistan”
  • Pedi: “Pakistan”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Pakistan”
  • Persian: “پاکستان”
  • Picard: “Pakistan”
  • Piemontese: “Pakistan”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Pakistaan”
  • Polish: “Islamska Republika Pakistanu”
  • Polish: “Pakistan”
  • Portuguese: “Paquistão”
  • Pushto: “پاکستان”
  • Quechua: “Pakistan”
  • Quechua: “Pakistán”
  • Quechua: “Pakisuyu”
  • Romanian: “Pakistan”
  • Romanian: “Republica Islamică Pakistan”
  • Romanian: “Republica Pakistan”
  • Romansh: “Pakistan”
  • Rundi: “Pakisitani”
  • Russia Buriat: “Пакистан”
  • Russian: “Ислами́ Джумхури́йе Пакиста́н”
  • Russian: “Исламская Республика Пакистан”
  • Russian: “Пакистан”
  • Rusyn: “Пакістан”
  • Sakizaya: “Pakistan”
  • Samoan: “Pakisitana”
  • Samogitian: “Pakėstans”
  • Sango: “Pakistäan”
  • Sango: “Pakistan”
  • Sanskrit: “पाकिस्तानम्”
  • Sanskrit: “पाकिस्थानम्”
  • Santali: “ᱯᱟᱠᱤᱥᱛᱟᱱ”
  • Saraiki: “پاکستان”
  • Sardinian: “Pakistan”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Pakistan”
  • Scots: “Pakistan”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Pagastàn”
  • Serbian: “Pakistan”
  • Serbian: “Пакистан”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pakistan”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းပႃႇၵိတ်ႈသတၼ်ႇ”
  • Shona: “Pakistan”
  • Sicilian: “Pakistan”
  • Silesian: “Pakistan”
  • Sindhi: “اسلامي جمھوريہ پاڪستان”
  • Sindhi: “پاڪستان”
  • Sinhala: “පාකිස්තානය”
  • Sinhala: “පාකිස්ථානය”
  • Skolt Sami: “Pakistaan islaamlaž tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Pakistaan”
  • Slovak: “Pakistan”
  • Slovak: “Pakistanská islamská republika”
  • Slovenian: “Islamska republika Pakistan”
  • Slovenian: “Pakistan”
  • Somali: “Bakistaan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پاکیستان”
  • Spanish: “Pakistán”
  • Spanish: “Paquistán”
  • Spanish: “República Islámica del Pakistán”
  • Spanish: “República Islámica del Paquistán”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Pakistan”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴱⴰⴽⵉⵙⵜⴰⵏ”
  • Sundanese: “Pakistan”
  • Swahili: “Pakistan”
  • Swahili: “Pakistani”
  • Swati: “IPhakhistani”
  • Swedish: “Islamiska republiken Pakistan”
  • Swedish: “Pakistan”
  • Swiss German: “Pakistan”
  • Sylheti: “ꠙꠣꠇꠤꠍ꠆ꠔꠣꠘ”
  • Sylheti: “ꠝꠥꠍꠟꠝꠣꠘꠞ ꠖꠦꠡ”
  • Sylheti: “ꠝꠥꠍꠟꠤꠝ ꠘꠣꠉꠞꠤ”
  • Tachelhit: “Baksitan”
  • Tachelhit: “Pakistan”
  • Tagalog: “Pakistan”
  • Tajik: “Покистон”
  • Talysh: “Pakistan”
  • Tamil: “பாகிஸ்தான்”
  • Tamil: “பாக்கித்தான்”
  • Tamil: “பாக்கிஸ்தான்”
  • Taroko: “Pakistan”
  • Tatar: “Пакистан Ислам Җөмһүрияте”
  • Tatar: “Пакистан”
  • Tatar: “Пакьстан”
  • Telugu: “పాకిస్తాన్”
  • Tetum: “Pakistaun”
  • Thai: “ประเทศปากีสถาน”
  • Thai: “ปากีสถาน”
  • Tibetan: “པ་ཀི་སི་ཐན”
  • Tibetan: “པཀི་སྟཱན།”
  • Tigrinya: “ፓኪስታን”
  • Tok Pisin: “Pakistan”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Pākisitani”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Pakistan”
  • Tulu: “ಪಾಕಿಸ್ತಾನ”
  • Tumbuka: “Pakistan”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “پاكستان”
  • Turkish: “Pakistan”
  • Turkmen: “Pakistan”
  • Turkmen: “Päkistan”
  • Twi: “Pakistan”
  • Tyap: “PAK”
  • Tyap: “Paki̱si̱tan”
  • Tyap: “pk”
  • Tyap: “Ri̱pobi̱lik Kpaa̱pyia̱ Paki̱si̱tan”
  • Tyap: “Ri̱pobi̱lik Paki̱si̱tan”
  • Udmurt: “Пакистан”
  • Uighur: “پاكىستان ئىسلام جۇمھۇرىيىتى”
  • Uighur: “پاكىستان”
  • Ukrainian: “Ісламська Республіка Пакистан”
  • Ukrainian: “Пакистан”
  • Ukrainian: “Пакістан”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Pakistan”
  • Urdu: “PAK”
  • Urdu: “Pākistān”
  • Urdu: “PK”
  • Urdu: “اسلامی جمہوریہ پاکستان”
  • Urdu: “باکستان”
  • Urdu: “پاکستان”
  • Urdu: “پی کے”
  • Uzbek: “Pokiston”
  • Venetian: “Pakistan”
  • Veps: “Pakistan”
  • Veps: “Pakistanan Islamine Valdkund”
  • Vietnamese: “Pa-ki-xtan (Pakistan)”
  • Vietnamese: “Pa-ki-xtan”
  • Vietnamese: “Pakistan”
  • Vlaams: “Pakistan”
  • Vlax Romani: “Pakistan”
  • Volapük: “Pakistän”
  • Võro: “Pakistan”
  • Walloon: “Pakistan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Pakistan”
  • Welsh: “Pacistan”
  • Welsh: “Pakistan”
  • Western Balochi: “پاکستان”
  • Western Frisian: “Pakistan”
  • Western Panjabi: “پاکستان”
  • Wolof: “Pakistaan”
  • Wolof: “Pakistaŋ”
  • Wu Chinese: “巴基斯坦”
  • Yakut: “Пакистаан”
  • Yakut: “Пакистан”
  • Yiddish: “פאקיסטאן”
  • Yiddish: “פּאַקיסטאַן”
  • Yoruba: “Orílẹ̀-èdè Ẹlẹ́sìn-ìmàle ilẹ̀ Pakístàn”
  • Yoruba: “Pakisitan”
  • Yoruba: “Pakístàn”
  • Yue Chinese: “巴基斯坦”
  • Zeeuws: “Pakistan”
  • Zhuang: “Pakistan”
  • Zulu: “i-Pakistan”
  • Zulu: “IPakistani”
  • “ma Pakisan”
  • “Mosolman Axkayotl tlen Pakistan”
  • “PAK”
  • “Pakėstans”
  • “Pakistan”
  • “PK”
  • “पाकिस्तान”

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