Everything you need to know about Pakistan
Explore Pakistan through Lahore’s Mughal monuments, the Indus cities of Sindh, Gandharan Buddhist heritage and the northern mountains. Learn seven regions with distinct statuses, place twenty cities and sixteen sights, explore ten illustrated topics and begin Urdu.
Read it, then make it stick
Geography of Pakistan
The Indus connects northern mountains, irrigated plains and a delta on the Arabian Sea.
Know the shape of the country
Start with four provinces and three territories with different statuses, then place twenty cities and towns and follow five selected rivers, Tarbela Reservoir and the Arabian Sea. Zoom in for Islamabad and Rawalpindi. Regions use geoBoundaries/Wikipedia’s public-domain 2019 reference depiction; waters use Natural Earth 5.1.2, public domain. Channels and shorelines are generalised, with gaps retained beside borders. These learning maps do not show current control, water levels or maritime boundaries.
Places worth visiting
Essential · Indus civilisation
Mohenjo-daro
Brick streets, drains and building remains record an urban settlement of the Bronze Age Indus civilisation. UNESCO lists the archaeological ruins under the spelling Moenjodaro.
Locate sixteen heritage and landscape places, from the ancient Indus city of Mohenjo-daro to Lahore’s Mughal monuments, Gandharan monasteries and the northern mountains. Priorities indicate learning importance. Check current official travel advice and local permissions before planning a visit, particularly in Balochistan, border areas and the northern mountains. Pins do not establish present access, opening or safety. Northern places include Pakistan-administered Gilgit-Baltistan within the disputed Kashmir region. Select a pin to read about a place, then play the map and find them all.
Take Urdu with you
Greetings and politeness
Hello, please, thank you, sorry: the eleven openers everything else builds on.
Keep going one country deeper
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