Fast facts about Pakistan
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- Official name: Islamic Republic of Pakistan (اسلامی جمہوریۂ پاکستان - Islāmī Jumhūrī-ye Pākistān
- Capital Islamabad
- Largest city Karachi
- Official languages: Urdu and English. Other languages are Balochi, Pashto, Punjabi, Saraiki, Sindhi.
- Demonym: Pakistani
- Pakistan declared Independence from the United Kingdom on August 14, 1947
- Area: 307,374 sq mi (796,095 km²)
- Country's population: 170.6 million
- Pakistan is the sixth most populous country in the world
- Currency Pakistani Rupee
- Pakistan is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast.
- In 1971, an armed conflict in East Pakistan resulted in the creation of the independent country of Bangladesh.
- Pakistan has the second largest Muslim population in the world after Indonesia.
- Pakistan is the only Muslim-majority nation to possess nuclear weapons.
- The name Pakistan means Land of (the) Pure in Urdu and Persian.
- About one fifth of the pakistani population live below the international poverty line (US$1.25 per day).
- 96 percent of the population are Muslims. Just over 1.6 percent are Christians.
- Cricket is the most popular sport in the country.
- Pakistan became an Islamic republic in 1956.
