Geography: Pakistan has the 6th largest population in the world. It is in Southern Asia and borders the Arabian Sea to the South, and between India on the east and Iran and Afghanistan on the west and China in the north.
Population: 187,342,721 (July 2011 estimate)
Language: Official Language is Urdu, but only spoken by 8% of population, Punjabi is most spoken language (48% of population speaks Punjabi)
Area: 796,095 sq. km
Climate: mostly hot, dry desert; temperate in northwest; arctic in north
Natural Resources: land, extensive natural gas reserves, limited petroleum, poor quality coal, iron ore, copper, salt, limestone
Religions: Muslim 95% (Sunni 75%, Shia 20%), other (includes Christian and Hindu) 5%
Capital City: Islamabad (832,000 in 2009)
Major Cities (other than Capital): Karachi (13.125 million); Lahore (7.132 million); Faisalabad (2.849 million); Rawalpindi (2.026 million)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan
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