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Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the second-largest Muslim population in the world as of 2023. Islamabad is the nation's capital, while Karachi is its largest city and financial centre. Pakistan is the 33rd-largest country by area. Bounded by the Arabian Sea on the south, the Gulf of Oman on the southwest, and the Sir Creek on the southeast, it shares land borders with India to the east; Afghanistan to the west; Iran to the southwest; and China to the northeast. It shares a maritime border with Oman in the Gulf of Oman, and is separated from Tajikistan in the northwest by Afghanistan's narrow Wakhan Corridor.
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WHAT PEOPLE ARE CALLED
These are English demonyms for people from Pakistan. A demonym describes a connection to a place; it does not mean everyone shares an ethnicity, language or religion.
Demonym source: mledoze/countries · Download the attributed dataset (ODbL)SAME LAND, DIFFERENT WORLDS
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Modern borders are a starting point for exploring the past. These cultures and states occupied some of the same land; they were not the same country. Dates describe each civilization or state as a whole, not continuous rule over every place listed.
Settlements in present-day Pakistan and northwestern India, rather than all of either country.
Seals preserve animal motifs and an undeciphered script. They are not evidence of a national flag.
Explore the evidence & illustrations →An empire centered in Iran; parts of these modern countries were held at different times, not for its entire lifespan.
Ancient accounts describe an eagle standard. Modern flag reconstructions should not be mistaken for a surviving national flag.
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An official religion is a legal status. The largest religious group is a population measure. Neither describes every person's beliefs.
Islam is the state religion.
Status referenceLargest religious group: Islam
Country overview; no percentages shownMost Muslims identify as Sunni; Shia communities and non-Muslim minorities also live here.
Affiliation source & methodologyBEYOND THE MAP
Places and things the general-knowledge library connects to Pakistan. Open one to follow its connections, then practise them with typed recall.
Share of the population that speaks each. Click one to see every country that speaks it.
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| Karachi | 18,868,021 |
| Lahore | 13,004,135 |
| Faisalabad | 3,691,999 |
| Rawalpindi | 3,357,612 |
| Gujranwala | 2,415,980 |
Conflicts this country is attached to. Click one to see the others. Each says what kind of claim it is: a principal belligerent is hand-checked against the modern state that succeeded the power that fought, while a recorded participant comes from the bulk import, which does not separate combat from funding, basing, occupation or reconstruction. Neither list is complete, so a country missing from a war may still have taken part — which is why the quiz no longer asks who fought in what.
mostly hot, dry desert; temperate in northwest; arctic in north
Northern hemisphere.
Corrected in an AI-assisted review of the imported data (2026-09-22), not yet checked against a named source: capitals, cities, languages, population.
