Southern Asia
Flag of Pakistan
Where the world's mightiest mountains converge.
Colours, by share of the flag
- #003018 66%
- #f0f0f0 29%
Measured from the flag artwork itself, so shares are approximate and emblems get folded into the nearest tone.
Pakistan in numbers
| Official name | Islamic Republic of Pakistan |
|---|---|
| Capital | Islamabad |
| Region | Southern Asia, Asia |
| Population | 220,892,331 |
| Area | 881,912 km² · 250 people per km² |
| Currency | Pakistani rupee (PKR) |
| Languages | Urdu, English |
| Country codes | PK · PAK · .pk |
| Coastline | Has a coast |
Things worth knowing
- Three of Earth's great ranges — the Himalaya, Karakoram, and Hindu Kush — meet here, gathering more peaks above 8,000 metres than anywhere outside the Nepal-China border.
- The Indus River, which gave the subcontinent of India its very name, watered one of humanity's first great urban civilisations at Mohenjo-daro over four thousand years ago.
- The Khewra Salt Mine, dug into the Salt Range of Punjab, is one of the oldest and largest salt mines on Earth and a source of the famous pink rock salt.
Did you know
K2, the world's second-highest mountain, is so steep and storm-lashed that for decades far more climbers reached the top of Everest than ever stood on its summit.
Neighbours
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Country data from the mledoze/countries dataset under ODbL 1.0. Flag artwork from the same dataset. All 196 flags.