PAKISTAN IS MY IDENTITY

Summary:

1) Map.
2) Introduction.
3) Borders.
4) Provinces.
5) Main cities.
6) Attraction for Tourism.

1) MAP:

PAKISTAN MAP

PAKISTAN'S FLAG IN MAP

2) INTRODUCTION:

Pakistan is a country in South Asia.

GENERAL STATS:

Official name: Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
Nature of scheme: Federal Republic.
Head of State: Mr. Arif-ur-Rehman Alvi, President of the Republic since September 9, 2018.
Head of Government: Mr. Imran Khan, Prime Minister since 18 August 2018.

DEMOGRAPHIC DATA:

Administrative capital: Islamabad.
Gross Domestic Product - GDP (2014): $ 243 billion.
Population (National Census, 2017): 207 million people.
Currency: Pakistani Rupees (PKR).
Density (UN, 2017): 255 inhabitants / km².
Population growth (national census, 2017): 2.4%.
Life expectancy (UN, 2015-2020): 65.7 years (men), 67.8 years (women).
Literacy rate (UNESCO, 2015): 69.6% (men), 42.7% (women).
Religions: Islam (state religion, 97%), Hinduism (1.5%), Christianity (1.5%).

FOREIGN POLICIES:

Separated in 1947, during their independence from the British Indian Empire, Pakistan and India have since clashed militarily on four occasions (in 1947, 1965, 1971 and 1999) and have experienced several incidents, most recently in February-March 2019. Pakistan has established a close relationship with China since its independence, including cooperation in the economic and defense sectors. The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project, part of China's "New Silk Roads" program, is expected to lead to 50 billion euros of Chinese investment in Pakistan by 2030.

Turkey, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries are the other major regional partners. Relations with the United States, although old, are marked by regular tensions, mainly due to strategic differences between Washington and Islamabad in Afghanistan, where US and NATO troops are engaged.

3) BORDER:

Pakistan is bounded by India to the east, the Arabian Sea to the south, Iran to the west, Afghanistan and China to the northeast. Kashmir, shared between India and Pakistan, is a territory claimed by both countries. Before independence, obtained in 1947, Pakistan included the current Bangladesh, which seceded in 1971.

4) PROVICES/STATES:

Pakistan is divided into four provinces. Balochistan (to the west, on the border with Iran and Afghanistan, with Quetta as its capital), the KPK (Khyber pakhtunkhwa) northwest the border with Afghanistan, with Peshawar as its capital, Punjab (in the northeast, on the border with India, with Lahore as its capital) and Sindh (in the south-east, with Karachi as its capital) - and two territories: the territory of the federal capital of Islamabad, in the north-east, and the territory formed by the "tribal regions" (located in a narrow strip along Afghanistan, north-east of Baluchistan).

5) MAIN CITIES:

Pakistan's largest city is Karachi, and is one of the most popular urban centers in the world with 9,300,000 inhabitants. It is an old federal capital located in the Indus delta zone, it remains the main commercial and industrial center of the country. Other important urban centers are Lahore, Faisalabad, Rawalpindi, Hyderabad, Multan and Peshawar. The federal capital Islamabad was founded in 1961 to succeed Karachi.

6) ATTRACTION FOR TOURISM:

The area of Pakistan is 796,095 km². Its territory is made up of two great complexes: a vast plain, crossed by the Indus and its affluents, and the mountains of North and West. With a width of between 80 and 320 km, the Indus Plain, which crosses the country from north to south to the Arabian Sea, covers more than 518 000 km2. The tributaries of the Indus - Sutlej, Ravi, Chenab and Jhelam - feed the irrigation system which waters the Punjab in the west, and Sind in the south. The Great Plain, separated from the Thar Desert by the Indian border, terminates to the south by a narrow coastal plain bordering the Arabian Sea.

Mountains and plateaus cover the western part of the country. In the north are the chains of Hindu Kush and Karakorum, the latter culminating in K2, the second highest peak in the world (8,611 m). Further south, the Safed Koh Mountains are pierced by the Khyber Pass, on the borders of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Azad Kashmir is also a point of Attraction for tourists.
For boosting in the Tourism department, Pakistani government introducing visa on arrival policy to promote tourists.

Official website for every concern : http://www.pakistan.gov.pk/

Illustration credits: MUHAMMAD SHARJEEL

PAKISTAN IS MY IDENTITY