Pakistan
Names and codes: GeoNames, CC BY 4.0 · Boundary: Natural Earth, public domain · Refresh date not recorded · Sources and licenses
Codes and identifiers
- ISO alpha-2
- PK
- ISO alpha-3
- PAK
- ISO numeric
- 586
- FIPS 10-4
- PK
- GeoNames ID
- 1168579
Key facts
- Capital
- Islamabad
- Area
- 803,940 km²
- Population
- 212,215,030
- Currency
- Rupee (PKR)
- Calling code
- +92
- Top-level domain
- .pk
- Official languages
- ur-PK,en-PK,pa,sd,ps,brh
Continent
- Name
- Asia
- Code
- AS
- In this dataset
- 51 countries
Location
- Latitude
- 30
- Longitude
- 70
- Min latitude
- 23.694525458000044
- Min longitude
- 60.844378703000075
- Max latitude
- 37.05448354100004
- Max longitude
- 77.04897098800006
Boundary
The API call behind this page
Request
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
"https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/PK?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"Response
{
"data": {
"area_sq_km": 803940,
"capital": "Islamabad",
"continent_code": "AS",
"currency_code": "PKR",
"iso3_code": "PAK",
"iso_code": "PK",
"name": "Pakistan",
"population": 212215030
}
}Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.
Other endpoints for this country
/v1/countries/PK/regions/v1/cities?country=PK/v1/postal-codes?country=PK/v1/timezones?country=PK
Name in other languages
- Arabic
- باكستان
- Chinese
- 巴基斯坦
- English
- Pakistan
- French
- Pakistan
- German
- Pakistan
- Hindi
- पाकिस्तान
- Italian
- Pakistan
- Japanese
- パキスタン
- Korean
- 파키스탄
- Portuguese
- Paquistão
- Russian
- Пакистан
- Spanish
- Pakistán
- Total language variants
- 144
The API returns any of them with ?lang=.
Time zones
| IANA ID | UTC offset | DST offset |
|---|---|---|
| Asia/Karachi | UTC+05:00 | UTC+05:00 |
Postal code format
- Format
- #####
- Pattern
^(\d{5})$
First-level administrative regions
- Punjab Province
- Sindh
- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province
- Balochistan
- Azad Jammu and Kashmir
- Islamabad
- Gilgit-Baltistan
7 of 7 shown, largest first
Largest cities
| City | Population |
|---|---|
| Lahore | 13,004,135 |
| Karachi | 11,624,219 |
| Peshawar | 4,758,762 |
| Faisalabad | 3,800,193 |
| Rawalpindi | 3,357,612 |
| Gujranwala | 2,511,118 |
| Multan | 2,169,915 |
| Hyderabad | 1,921,275 |
| Quetta | 1,565,546 |
| Bannu | 1,357,890 |
Coverage in this dataset
- Cities
- 150,397
- First-level regions
- 7
- Postal codes
- 2,563
- Name languages
- 144
- Boundary polygon
- Yes
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