45 facts about Pakistan, let us learn about its history, culture, geography, noted people, food, inventions,
mountains, mosques, family customs and hospitality, and much more.
Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is the 6th most populous country in the world.
It has an area of 796,095 sq km.
It is a country in South Asia and has 4 provinces (Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab, and Sindh).
Islamabad is the country’s capital and Karachi is its largest city.
Both Urdu and English are its official languages. Urdu is also its national language.
The Pakistani rupee (PKR) is its official currency.
Its four bordering countries are India, Afghanistan, Iran, and China.
1. Sialkot, located in Pakistan, is the world’s largest producer of handsewn footballs.
Local factories in the region produce 40-60 million footballs a year,
which is roughly 50-70% of the world’s total production.
The football manufacturing industry now consists of more than 200 factories.
2. Pakistan is the world’s first Islamic country to attain nuclear power.
3. Pakistan has the highest paved international road – The Karakoram Highway (KKH).
4. Pakistan has the largest canal-based irrigation system in the world.
5. Pakistan has the world’s largest ambulance network.
Pakistan’s Edhi Foundation, which is also listed in the Guinness Book of World Records, operates the network.
6. Pakistan’s estimated population was 207,774,520 in August 2017,
making it the world’s sixth-most-populous country, behind Brazil and ahead of Nigeria.
7. The name Pakistan means ‘land of the pure’ in Persian and Urdu.
8. Just two people have won the Nobel Prize from Pakistan. Malala Yousafzai for Peace in 2014 and Abdus Salam for Physics in 1979.
9. Pakistan boasts the world’s highest ATM (automated teller machine).
The ATM is operated by the National Bank of Pakistan and it is installed at a height of 16,007 feet above sea level, at the Pak-China border, Khunjerab Pass.
10. Karachi, the largest city of Pakistan, is its financial hub as well as home to almost 17 million people.
It also has a major seaport. Karachi was the first capital city of Pakistan post-independence and remained so until the capital was shifted to Rawalpindi in 1958.
11. India and Pakistan got their independence at midnight of 14–15 August 1947.
The Indian Independence Act states – “As from the fifteenth day of August, nineteen hundred and forty-seven,
two independent Dominions shall be set up in India, to be known respectively as India and Pakistan.”
12. Queen Elizabeth II was the Queen Of Pakistan until 1956. And the ex-US President Barack Obama visited Pakistan in 1981.
13. Sugarcane juice is the national drink of Pakistan. In Pakistan, it is also known as “roh.”
14. Pakistan levies 5% advance tax on annual expenses made related to education, however, only when the total expense is above Rs 200,000 during a year.
15. Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) was founded on 23 October 1946 as Orient Airways.
The airline was nationalized on January 10th, 1955.
he airline has a world record for flying the fastest between London and Karachi.
The airline achieved this feat in 1962 when they completed the flight in 6 hours, 43 minutes, 55 seconds, a record which remains unbroken to this day.
16. K-2 (Chagori) is the highest mountain peak in Pakistan and the second highest in the world.
17. Pakistan also has one of the oldest civilizations in history, Mehrgarh, dating back to 6000 B.C.
Mehrgarh is now seen as a precursor to the Indus Valley Civilization.
It is one of the earliest sites with evidence of farming and herding in South Asia.
18. Pakistan also made history with the youngest civil judge in the world.
Mohammed Ilyas passed the exam when he was 20 years and 9 months old and thus became the youngest civil judge in the world.
19. The ‘Khewra Salt Mine’ in Pakistan is the second largest and oldest salt mine in the world.
20. Pakistan has the only fertile desert in the world – the Tharparkar desert – located in Sindh province.
21. Pakistan has the eleventh-largest armed force in the world. It has 617,000 people in its army.
UN peacekeeping missions are supported largely by the Pakistani army.
22. According to a survey, Pakistan has one of the world’s top national anthem tunes. The duration of Pakistan’s National Anthem is 80 seconds.
23. according to poll results gathered from 125 countries by the Institute of European Business Administration.
Pakistanis are the fourth-most intelligent people in the world
24. The world’s seventh-largest collection of scientists and engineers is from Pakistan.
25. The world’s longest glacial system outside the polar regions – the Biafo Glacier – is in Pakistan
26. The largest earth-filled dam in the world (and fifth largest by structural volume) is the ‘Tarbela Dam’ on the Indus river in Pakistan.
The dam was built in 1968 and 1976. The dam is 143.26 meters high and 2,743.2 meters long.
27. Out of the total land area in Pakistan, 25% is under agricultural cultivation.
Pakistan irrigates three times more land area than Russia.
28. The once world’s largest man-made forest is in Pakistan – the Changa Manga forest (12,423 acres in area).
29. Islamabad, Pakistan is ranked the second most beautiful capital in the world.
30. Pakistan has some of the best-trained air force pilots in the world.
31. The Shah Faisal Mosque in Pakistan can accommodate 100,000 worshipers at a time.
It was the largest mosque in the world from 1986 until 1993.
32. MM Alam, late Air Commodore from Pakistan, is known to have shot five planes in less than a minute during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
33. Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, has a population of 2,006,572 (2017).
Islamabad officially became the capital of Pakistan on 14 August 1967, exactly 20 years after the country’s independence.
34. Pakistan is so far the only nation in the world to get established on the basis of ‘Religion’.
35. Pakistan is the only Muslim country after Turkey to open Combat Jobs for women.
36. Pakistan is also home to the world’s second-largest Muslim population, behind Indonesia.
Note that India is home to the world’s third-largest Muslim population.
37.The borders of Pakistan were drawn two days after on 17th August 1947, after the separation of India and Pakistan.
38. Gwadar port is the largest deep sea port in the world, located on the southwestern Arabian Sea along the coastline of Balochistan, Pakistan.
The port has an area of 64,000 square meters and has a depth of more than 14 meters.
39. In 1965, Pakistan had a second war with India over Kashmir.
The seventeen-day war caused thousands of casualties on both sides, and also witnessed the largest tank battle since World War II.
40. Pakistan and India both claimed victory in the war of 1965, which ended after a ceasefire declaration by the intervention of the Soviet Union and the United States.
41. Benazir Bhutto became the first female Prime Minister of Pakistan, and of any Muslim nation.
42.The Badshahi Mosque in Lahore, Pakistan is one of the world’s largest mosques.
It was commissioned by the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb in 1671 and its construction completed in 1673.
However, the mosque was largely used for military purposes
during the Sikh era
and the British rule for many years until the independence of Pakistan when it was restored to its original condition.
43. Darra Adam Khel is a city situated in Khyber Regency, south of the city of Peshawar. Almost three-quarters of the population of the city,
generally regarded as the largest illegal gun market in the world, is involved in the gun business.
Replicas of nearly every gun available on the market are produced in the region. The business came into existence in 1897 and is run by the local Afridi tribe.
44. Located at the northern end of the Kaghan Valley, Lake Saiful Muluk, is one of the highest lakes in Pakistan, at an elevation of 3,224 m (10,578 feet) above sea level.
45. Mohenjo-Daro is an archaeological site in the province of Sindh, Pakistan. It was one of the largest and most advanced cities in the world during its time (built around 2500 BCE).