Holds five of the world's fourteen eight-thousanders, including K2, and the highest paved international road.
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Pakistan
Islamic Republic of Pakistan
Asia
ยท Southern Asia
0Population
881.91Kkmยฒ of land
$1.29KGDP / person
IslamabadCapital
- ISO codes
- PK ยท PAK
- Density
- 246 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- English, Urdu
- Currency
- Pakistani rupee (PKR)
- Dial code
- +92
- Internet domain
- .pk
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 29.3280ยฐ N, 68.5460ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Pakistani
- UN region
- Southern Asia
- Economy
- Emerging region: G20
- Income group
- Lower middle income
- Total GDP
- $278.22B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 4
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By the numbers
How Pakistan stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
5th
of 242 ยท 2.82% of world population
Land area
35th
of 242 ยท 0.59% of world land
GDP per person
206th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
51st
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Pakistan
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 216,565,318 people, the 5th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 2.82 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 881,912 kmยฒ, making it the 35th largest country here - about 9.6 times the size of Portugal.
Population density is about 246 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Islamabad, at 33.70ยฐ N, 73.16ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 780,000.
Shares land borders with 4 countries: Afghanistan, China, India and Iran.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Asia/Karachi.
The currency is the Pakistani rupee (PKR, symbol โจ).
Has 2 official languages: English and Urdu.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Asia/Karachi
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UTC+05:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
Karachi
Sind
24.8719ยฐ N, 66.9881ยฐ E
12.13M
2
Lahore
Punjab
31.5619ยฐ N, 74.3481ยฐ E
6.58M
3
Multan
Punjab
30.2019ยฐ N, 71.4531ยฐ E
1.52M
4
Gujranwala
Punjab
32.1624ยฐ N, 74.1831ยฐ E
1.51M
5
Hyderabad
Sind
25.3819ยฐ N, 68.3730ยฐ E
1.46M
6
Peshawar
N.W.F.P.
34.0070ยฐ N, 71.5331ยฐ E
1.3M
7
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Islamabad
F.C.T.
33.7019ยฐ N, 73.1647ยฐ E
780K
8
Quetta
Baluchistan
30.2219ยฐ N, 67.0230ยฐ E
768K
9
Larkana
Sind
27.5618ยฐ N, 68.2068ยฐ E
364.03K
๐ Peaks
K2
8,611 m
Nanga Parbat
8,126 m
Gasherbrum I
8,080 m
Broad Peak
8,051 m
Gasherbrum II
8,035 m
Land neighbours
4 countries share a border with Pakistan.