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Karachi. / 24.86000°N 67.01000°E / 24.86000; 67.01000. Karachi ( ⫽ kəˈrɑːtʃi ⫽; Urdu: کراچی; Sindhi: ڪراچي; IPA: [kəˈraːtʃi] ⓘ) is the capital city of the Pakistani province of Sindh. It is the largest city in Pakistan and the 12th largest in the world, with a population of over 20 million. [12] [18] It is ...
It is the country's ninth-most populous city with a population of over 1.2 million people [5] [9] and is federally administered by the Pakistani government as part of the Islamabad Capital Territory. Built as a planned city in the 1960s and established in 1967, it replaced Karachi as Pakistan's national capital.
Islamabad Rural, 466.20 square kilometres (180.00 sq mi) However, Rawalpindi was eventually excluded from the Islamabad master plan in the 1980s. Administration The five zones and sectors of Islamabad Zones Map showing the five zones of Islamabad Capital Territory, Pakistan. Islamabad is subdivided into five zones:
However, it still maintained a great cultural diversity as its new inhabitants arrived from the different parts of the South Asia. In 1959, the capital of Pakistan was shifted from Karachi to Islamabad. Karachi remained a federal territory and became the capital of Sindh in 1970 by general Yahya khan. Cosmopolitan city (1970–1980)
Karachi is Pakistan 's largest city and is the capital of Sindh; it lies on Pakistan's southern coast, on the Arabian Sea just northwest of the Indus River Delta . Originally a tiny fishing village, Karachi became a trading center in the 18th century. The British, after gaining control of the region in the 19th century, developed the city into ...
National capital. Islamabad officially became the capital of Pakistan on 14 August 1967, exactly 20 years after the country's independence. [1] The first capital of Pakistan was the coastal city of Karachi in Sindh, which was selected by Muhammad Ali Jinnah. [1] Karachi was and still is the largest city and economic capital of Pakistan.
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As of the 2017 Census, there are two megacities, ten million-plus cities, and 100 cities having a population of 100,000 or more. Of these 100 cities, 58 are located in the country's most populous province, Punjab, 22 in Sindh, 11 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, six in Balochistan, two in Azad Kashmir, and one in Islamabad Capital Territory.