Islamabad
Quick facts
- What it is
- Federal capital city
- Country
- Pakistan
- Area
- 220 km² (85 sq mi)
- Population
- 1,108,872 (2023)
Facts from Wikipedia’s “Islamabad” page (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Islamabad (disambiguation)
Islamabad (, abode of Islam) is the Federal capital city of Pakistan. The city is located on the Pothohar Plateau in the northwest of the country. It is in the Islamabad Capital Territory, though the area has historically been a part of the Pothohar region on the crossroads of the Punjab region and the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province (the Margalla Pass being a historic gateway to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and the Pothohar Plateau historically is a part of the Punjab region). This city is rich in nature. It is surrounded by the Margalla Hills. It has a humid subtropical climate (Cwa in the Köppen climate classification). Islamabad is an expensive city to live in as the prices of most of fruits, vegetable and poultry items increased in Islamabad during the years 2015-2025.
Places worth seeing
The places that attract the tourists include:
- Shah Faisal Mosque
- Daman-e-Koh
- Gurdwara Baba Dyall Singh
- Peer Sohawa
- Gurdwara Guru Ravidas
- Fateh Tower
- Vishnu temple
- Shakar Parian
- Fatimah Jinnah Park
- Rose and Jasmine Garden
- Pakistan National Monument
- Rawal Lake (and Rawal Dam)
- Japanese Park
- Marghazar Zoo
- National Archives of Pakistan
Educational institutions
Islamabad has a large number of educational institutions including colleges, universities and technical education and training bodies.Some of them are:
- Allama Iqbal Open University
- National University of Modern Languages
- COMSATS Institute of Information Technology
- Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science & Technology
- International Islamic University
- National Defence University
- National University of Sciences and Technology
- National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
- National University of Modern Languages
- Pakistan Institute of Engineering & Applied Sciences
- Guru Nanak College of Computer Science
- Guru Gobind Singh College of Arts,Science & Tecnology
- Pakistan Institute of Medical Science
- Quaid-i-Azam University
- Shifa College of Medicine
- The Sophia Institute
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