 | Land
area is spread over 882,000 km2 (88.2 million ha), and includes
the Northern
Areas
and Azad Jammu and Kashmir. |
Official name Islamic Republic of Pakistan
Capital Islamabad
Area 796,095 square kilometers
307,374
square miles
More
than twice the size of Japan.
Pakistan
is bordered on the north and northwest by Afghanistan, on the northeast
by China, on the east and southeast by India, on the south by the Arabian
Sea, and on the west by Iran.
Sindh,
NWFP, Punjab, Baluchistan
Administrative divisions
(population)
|
Baluchistan |
6,510,000
(1998) |
|
Federally
administered tribal areas |
3,138,000
(1998) |
|
Islamabad |
799,000
(1998) |
|
North-West
Frontier Province |
17,555,000
(1998) |
|
Punjab |
72,585,000
(1998) |
|
Sindh |
29,991,000
(1998) |
Largest cities
(population)
|
Karachi |
9,269,265
(1998) |
|
Lahore |
5,063,499
(1998) |
|
Faisalabad |
1,977,246
(1998) |
|
Rawalpindi |
1,406,214
(1998) |
|
Hyderabad |
1,151,274
(1998) |
|
Peshawar |
988,055
(1998) |
|
Multan |
722,070
(1981) |
|
Islamabad |
524,500
(1998) |
Population 141,145,344 (2000 Estimate)
Population growth rate
2.15 per cent
(2000 Estimate)
177
persons per square kilometer Estimate
459 persons per square mile Estimate
Percent
urban 36 per cent (1998 Estimate)
Percent
rural 64 per cent (1998 Estimate)
|
Total |
59.7
years (2000 Estimate) |
|
Female |
60.6
years (2000 Estimate) |
|
Male |
58.8
years (2000 Estimate) |
90
deaths per 1,000 live births (2000 Estimate)
|
Total |
43.3
per cent (2000) |
|
Female |
27.8
per cent (2000) |
|
Male |
57.6
per cent (2000) |
Punjabi,
Sindhi, Pashtun (Pathan), Baluch, Muhajir (people of Indian origin)
Urdu
(official), English (official; commonly used), Punjabi, Sindhi,
Pashto, Balochi
|
Sunni
Muslim |
77
per cent |
|
Shiite
Muslim |
20
per cent |
|
Christian,
Hindu, and other |
3
per cent |
Republic. Parliament
has been dissolved since the military coup in October 1999; an army general is
the President.
14 August 1947 (from the United Kingdom)
10 April 1973, suspended 5 July 1977, restored with amendments 30 December 1985; suspended since October 1999
Voting
rights
18 Years (2002)
Colombo Plan, Commonwealth, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICC, ICFTU, ICPO/Interpol, IFRCS, IMF, INTELSAT, ISO, NAM, OAS (observer), UN, UNESCO, WHO, WToO, WTO
|
Gross
domestic product (GDP) (US$) |
63,369
million (1998) |
|
GDP
per capita (US$) |
480
(1998) |
|
GDP,
agriculture |
26.4
per cent (1998) |
|
GDP,
industry |
24.7
per cent (1998) |
|
GDP,
services |
48.9
per cent (1998) |
National budget (US$)
|
Total revenue |
9,562 million (1997) |
|
Total expenditure |
13,631 million (1997) |
Cotton, textiles, clothing, rice, leather, carpets
Petroleum, petroleum products, machinery, transport equipment, vegetable oils, animal fats, chemicals
United
States, Hong Kong, Germany, United Kingdom, Japan, United Arab Emirates
United
States, Japan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, China
Textiles,
food processing, beverages, construction materials, clothing, paper products,
shrimp
Cotton,
wheat, rice, sugar cane, fruits, vegetables, livestock products. Milk, beef,
mutton, eggs
Natural
gas, petroleum, low-grade coal, iron ore, copper, salt, limestone, chromite.
4
Percent
Climate of
Pakistan
The land
encompasses an area from the mountains in the north to the coast of the Arabian
Sea in the south, giving rise to extreme cold in the mountains to warm balmy
weather near the coast. The climate is arid subtropical in general however, with
under 250 mm of annual rainfall with some of the driest regions receiving less
than 123 mm annually. Punjab (meaning land of 5 rivers) has some humid
subtropical terrain and some southern slopes of the Himalayas are monsoon
influenced. Rainfall exceeds 2000 mm annually in a few places. The south –
west monsoon arrives from June to September and that is when the main rainfall
occurs. Temperatures are influenced by altitude and in the period just before
the monsoon temperatures in the central plains average 35-40o C.
Deserts may reach up to 45o C. Winter temperatures in the northern
mountains remain below freezing for several months of the year. (Biodiversity
Guide).
Physical
Environment
Due to large
variation in climate, landform and a wide diversity of habitat Pakistan can be
divided into regions and Pakistan comprises a number of ecosystems including marine,
coastal, mangrove, deltaic, rive rain, wetland, dry desert, tropical thorn,
sub-mountain, and cold desert.
The Indus River zone and the Chagai Desert & Juniper forest of
Balochistan are of unique ecological interest and international conservation
importance.
Resources
| Land
area is spread over 882,000 km2 (88.2 million ha), and includes
the Northern
Areas
and Azad Jammu and Kashmir. |
| Rainfall
ranges at 30 mm annually in the Chagai and Sibi deserts. Murree receives
around 1350 mm and the average in the northern areas is 2000 mm annually.
75% of the country receives less than 250 mm annually, and 90% less than
510mm per annum. |
| The major freshwater supplier is the Indus, which discharges some 200 km3 of water and 450 million tonnes of sediment annually. This creates the Indus Cone, a 2,500-m deep pile of loose sediment on the floor of the Arabian Sea. |
|
Northern
Mountains |
Comprise parts of the Himalayan and Karakoram ranges with a small part of the Hindu Kush |
|
Western
Highlands |
Separated by the Kabul River, the Highlands consist of a series of dry, lower hills |
|
Indus Plains |
Consist of the flood plain of the river Indus and its major tributaries |
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