Islamabad

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Islamabad (Urdu: اسلام آباد Islām ābād, lit. Abode of Islam) is the capital of Pakistan and the tenth largest city in the country. Located within the Islamabad Capital Territory(ICT), the population of the city has grown from 100,000 in 1951 to 1.7 million in 2011.[2]The greater Islamabad-Rawalpindi Metropolitan Area is the third largest conurbation in […]

Faisalabad

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Faisalabad, (Urdu فیصل آباد) formerly known as Lyallpur, is the third largest metropolis in Pakistan, the second largest in the province of Punjab after Lahore, and a major industrial center in the heart of Pakistan. Before the foundation of the city in 1880, the area was very thinly populated. The population has risen from 9,171 […]

Rawalpindi

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Rawalpindi (help·info) (Urdu, Potwari, Punjabi: راولپنڈی,Rāwalpindī) is a city in the Pothohar region of Pakistan near Pakistan’s capital city of Islamabad, in the province of Punjab. Rawalpindi is the third largest city in Pakistan after Karachi and Lahore. In the 1950s, Rawalpindi was smaller than Hyderabad and Multan, but the city’s economy received a boost […]

Peshawar

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Peshāwar (help·info) (Pashto: پېښور Pekhawar/Peshawar, Hindko: پِشور Pishor, Urdu: پشاور), is the capital of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa[2] and the administrative centre (and the central business hub) for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. [nggallery id=62] Peshawar is situated in a large valley near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, between the eastern edge of […]

Lahore

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Lahore (Punjabi: لہور, Urdu: لاہور) is the capital of the Pakistani province of Punjab and the second largest city in the country. With a rich history dating back over a millennium, Lahore is a major cultural centre of Pakistan. One of the most densely populated cities in the world, Lahore remains an economic, political, transportation, […]

Quetta

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Quetta (Pashto: کوټه, Urdu: کوئٹہ pronunciation (help·info), Hazaragi: کویته, Brahui: Koŧá) is the largest city and the provincial capital of the Balochistan Province of Pakistan. Known as the Fruit Garden of Balochistan due to the diversity of its plant and animal wildlife, Quetta is home to the Hazarganji Chiltan National Park, which contains rare wildlife. […]

Karachi

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Karachi ( Karācī (help·info), Urdu: کراچی; Sindhi: ڪراچي) is the largest city, and the main sea port and financial centre of Pakistan, as well as the capital of the province of Sindh. The city has an estimated population of 13[5] to 20 million,[7] while the total metropolitan area has a population of over 25 million.[6] […]