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Road Traffic:left side
Electricity:
Voltage:230V
Frequency:50 Hz
Plug types:C, D,
TV Systems:
System:PAL B
DVD-Region: 5
Geography
Bordering countries:
Location:
Southern Asia, bordering the Arabian Sea, between India on the east and Iran and Afghanistan on the west and China in the north
Area:
total: 803,940 sq km
land: 778,720 sq km
water: 25,220 sq km
Climate:
mostly hot, dry desert; temperate in northwest; arctic in north
Terrain:
flat Indus plain in east; mountains in north and northwest; Balochistan plateau in west
Economy
GDP: $393.4 billion (2005 est.)
GDP growth rate: 6.9% (2005 est.)
GDP per capita: $2,400 (2005 est.)
Inflation rate: 9.1% (2005 est.)
Currency: Pakistani rupee (PKR)
Exchange rates:
Pakistani rupees per US dollar - 59.515 (2005), 58.258 (2004), 57.752 (2003), 59.724 (2002), 61.927 (2001)
People
Population: 165,803,560 (July 2006 est.)
Growth rate: 2.09% (2006 est.)
Religions:
Muslim 97% (Sunni 77%, Shi'a 20%), Christian, Hindu, and other 3%
Languages:
Punjabi 48%, Sindhi 12%, Siraiki (a Punjabi variant) 10%, Pashtu 8%, Urdu (official) 8%, Balochi 3%, Hindko 2%, Brahui 1%, English (official and lingua franca of Pakistani elite and most government ministries), Burushaski, and other 8%
Government
Capital:
name: Islamabad
time difference: UTC+5 (10 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)
Independence:
14 August 1947 (from UK)
Note: Information on Pakistan was mainly sourced from CIA's World Factbook and may represent an American point of view. To learn more about Pakistan, please visit one of the links below.
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