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Pakistan is a country in South Asia, officially Islamic Republic of Pakistan. It has a population exceeding 212.2 million, making it the fifth most populated nation in the world. It has the second highest Muslim community in the world. It is by region the 33rd largest nation covering 881,913 km2 (340,509 square miles). Pakistan has a coastline of 1,046 km (650 miles) in the South along the Arab Sea and the Gulf of Oman, bordered by eastern Indian, western Afghanistan, southwestern Iran and northeast China. The Wakhan Corridor in Afghanistan in the north west is narrowly divided from Tajikistan, as well as sharing a sea boundary with Oman.

Pakistan nowadays was the site of many ancient civilizations and the past of the larger Indian subcontinent was interconnected with it. Ancient history includes the Neolithic site of Moregarh and Bronze Age Indus, and later became the birthplace of kingdoms ruled by Hindus, Indo-Greeks, Muslims, Turkish-Mongols, Afghani and Sikh religions. Numerous empires and dynasties were ruled in this region, including the Achaemenid empire, the Alexander III empire in Macedon, the Seleucid empire, the Indian Maurya empire, the Kushan empire, the Gupta empire, the Ghaznavid empire and the Ghurid empire, the Delhi Sultanate and the Mongol empire.

Here interesting Fact About Pakistan

Two Pakistani men have won the Nobel Peace Prize: late Abdus Salam, a physicist with the theoretical expertise in 1979, and in 2014, Malala Yousafzai, a women's educational activist, shared the Nobel Prize of Physics with Kailash Satyarthi of India, for his contribution to electroweak unification theory. When Yousafzai won the Nobel prize, she was 17 years old and became the youngest laureate of ever.
Late Benazir Bhutto was the very first woman in a nation of the Muslim majority to lead a democratic government.
The name Pakistan is derived from two words, "Pak," which means "holy, clean" or "pure" in Persian. "istan" is derived from the Hindi word "isthan" means place.
There are six UNESCO World Heritage sites in Pakistan: Moenjodaro Archeological Ruins; Takht-i-Bahi Buddhist and the nearby town of Sahr-i Bahlol; Shalamar Fort and Gardens in Lahore; Makli Monuments; Fort Rohtas; and the old ruins of Taxila. Pakistan has six sites listed as UNESCo World Heritage.
According to the United Nations, Pakistan has the world's largest adjacent drainage system.
Two Pakistani brothers developed the world's first PC virus. "Brain," was discovered and targeted by Basit Farooq and Amjad Farooq Alvi on IBM PC platforms, discovered in 1985.
You probably put a boot in a commodity manufactured in Pakistan if you play sports – called football by the majority of people around the world. Nation workers hand-sew many football balls distributed around the world, with around 40% of all soccer balls around the world being produced in one Pakistani city, Sialkot. The Atlantic reports.
In Pakistan there are some of the highest mountains in the country. The second highest mountain in the world is located in the region, with several names: Dapsang or Chogori, Mount Godwin-Austen in Chinese and Qogir Fengin. But most people only know it as K2, at 8,611 metres or 28,251 feet.
According to Travel+Leisure magazine, the Karakoram Highway is the highest international paved road in the country. Pakistan is linked with West China by 800-kilometer highway and reaches a maximum height of 15,300 metres.
The top ATM belongs to the National Bank of Pakistan and is situated in the Khunjerab pass, Gilgit-Baltistan, in high altitudes. The highest altitudes in the world. It is 15,397 feet above sea level was set up in November 2016.

Pakistan Army

Pakistan's military is ranked as 6th largest armed force in world. The origins of its modern life lie within the British Indian Army, which ceased to exist in the wake of the British India Partition, resulting in a parliamentary act declaring Pakistan's independence from the UK (as the Dominion of Pakistan) on 14 August 1947. In 2020, the Pakistan Army has about 560,000 active military personnel backed by the Army Reserve and the National Guard, making it the 6th largest force in the world in terms of labour, according to statistics provided by the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS). Pakistani citizens can be enrolled in voluntary military service at the age of 16, but cannot, according to the Constitution of Pakistan, be deployed for fight until the age of 18.

Major Cities

Pakistan has nearly 200 million people, and its urbanisation is growing, of course, and has many cities within its five provinces of Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan and Gilgit Baltistan.

A list of the largest cities by population, ranked with the larger ones first, is shown below. A discussion on how this ranking is achieved is presented as last section of this contribution.

RANK	CITY	PROVINCE	POPULATION
1.	Karachi	Sindh	14,910,400
2.	Lahore	Punjab	11,126,300
3.	Faisalabad	Punjab	3,203,900
4.	Rawalpindi	Punjab	2,098,600
5.	Gujranwala	Punjab	2,027,000
6.	Peshawar	Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa	1,970,000
7.	Multan	Punjab	1,871,900
8.	Hyderabad	Sindh	1,732,700
9.	Islamabad	Capital Territory	1,014,800
10.	Quetta	Balochistan	1,001,800

Most Beautiful Places in Pakistan

Swat Valley

Swat is one of Pakistan's biggest tourist attractions. It is known as Pakistan's Switzerland, it has one of the oldes cultures and one of the finest landscapes that one will ever see.

It's about 2000 years after the history of Swat Valley. It was called Udyana and was later renamed Suvastu. The valley was a quiet living place until the 11th century. The power game led to the valley's rupture, and Mahmoud of Ghazni first captured it. The ritual of land acquisition proceeded and the Yusufzais took over the Swat valley.

Hunza Valley

In Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan, the Hunza Valley is mountainous. Hunza was once a Princess State that borders on north-eastern China, and the south-western state of Pamir, which existed until Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's dissolution in 1974. The government bordered Gilgit Agency in the south, Nagar in the east in the former princely state. The city of Baltit (also referred to as Karimabad) was the state capital and its old town was the Ganish Village.

Lahore

Lahore, Pakistan's second largest city and Punjab's capital. It is in the upper Indus plain, on the Rāvi River, a tributary of the Indus, 811 kilometres (1,305 km) north-east of Karāchi.

Here some beautiful places for Lahore:

Hingol National Park

Technically, Hingol National Park is in Pakistan, but it looks more like a Martian planet! The park is 6,000 km2 and has unbelievably rare rock formations, huge canyons, various animal species and even a mud volcano.

Kalash Valley

The Valleys of Kalash consisting of Bumboret, Rumbur and Birir, have their own religion,
culture, and language in the Kalash tribes, the religious and ethnic minorities in Pakistan.
The valleys they are staying in are definitely some of Pakistan's most beautiful areas,
not just for the beauty of the Kalash but also for its natural splendour.