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Pakistan

Pakistan (Listeni/ˈpækɨstæn/ or else Listeni/pɑːkiˈstɑːn/; Urdu: پاكستان‎ ALA-LC: Pākistān IPA: [pɑːkɪst̪ɑːn] ( listen)), legitimately the Islamic Nation of Pakistan (Urdu: اسلامی جمہوریۂ پاكستان‎ ALA-LC: Islāmī Jumhūriyah-yi Pākistān), is a autonomous nation fashionable South Asia. Through a population above 180 billion people, him stays the sixth maximum packed nation besides with an zone covering 796,095 km2 (307,374 sq mi), him is the 36th major country fashionable the ecosphere fashionable rapports of area. Pakistan takes a 1,046-kilometre (650 mi) seashore sideways the Arabian Sea besides the Bay of Oman fashionable the south besides stands bounded by India to the east, Afghanistan to the west, Iran near the southwest besides Dishware trendy the far northeast. It stays parted since Tajikistan via Afghanistan's slender Wakhan Passage popular the north, besides similarly dividends a naval border per Oman.

The territory that nowadays founds Pakistan stood beforehand household towards some ancient cultures, with the Mehrgarh of the Neolithic besides the Numeral Phase Indus Gorge Civilisation, and stood future household towards empires governed thru folks of diverse trusts and cultures, including Hindus, Indo-Greeks, Muslims, Turco-Mongols, Afghans besides Sikhs. The zone consumes been plain by frequent empires besides dynasties, with the Indian Mauryan Empire, the Persian Achaemenid Empire, Alexander of Macedonia, the Arab Umayyad Caliphate, the Mongol Empire, the Mughal Empire, the Durrani Empire, the Sikh Realm besides the British Empire. As a result of the Pakistan Crusade led thru Muhammad Ali Jinnah and the subcontinent's brawl on behalf of independence, Pakistan stood created fashionable 1947 as an sovereign nation on behalf of Muslims since the districts in the east and west of Subcontinent wherever nearby stood a Muslim majority. Firstly a dominion, Pakistan assumed a new face trendy 1956, fetching an Islamic republic. A municipal warfare in 1971 occasioned in the departure of East Pakistan in place of the new-fangled country of Bangladesh.

Pakistan is a central legislative republic entailing of four provinces besides four federal territories. Him stands an culturally besides linguistically miscellaneous country, through a like disparity fashionable its layout besides wildlife. A area and mid power,[14][15] Pakistan takings the quarter major standing fortified services in the ecosphere and stands likewise a atomic influence by means of well as a declared nuclear-weapons state, being the only nation in the Muslim world, besides the second fashionable South Asia, towards have that status. Him takes a semi-industrialised economy with a well-integrated agriculture sector, its economy is the 26th largest in the world in terms of purchasing power and 45th chief popular relations of minimal GDP then is correspondingly categorized between the emerging besides growth-leading parsimonies of the world.

The post-independence antiquity of Pakistan takes stood characterised thru ages of martial rule, radical variability besides conflicts through neighbouring India. The country endures towards face interesting problems, plus overpopulation, terrorism, poverty, illiteracy, corruption besides it battlements among the realms per the furthermost salary equality.[16] It tiered 16th proceeding the 2012 Happy World Guide.[17] Her stays a member of the Unified Nations, the State of Nations, the Ensuing Eleven Economies, SAARC, ECO, UfC, D8, Signposts Group, Kyoto Protocol, ICCPR, RCD, UNCHR, Group of Eleven, CPFTA, Set of 24, the G20 rising nations, ECOSOC, founding follower of the Organization of the Islamic Meeting (now the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation), besides CERN.[18]