Pakistan
Pakistan (pəˈkɪstɑːn)
Pakistan (pronounced /pəˈkɪstɑːn/), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the world's fifth-most populous country with a population exceeding 212.2 million, and has the world's second-largest Muslim population. Pakistan is the 33rd-largest country by area, spanning 881,913 square kilometres (340,509 square miles). It has a 1,046-kilometre (650-mile) coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by India to the east, Afghanistan to the west, Iran to the southwest, and China to the northeast. It is separated narrowly from Tajikistan by Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor in the northwest, and also shares a maritime border with Oman.
Etymology
The name Pakistan means "land of the pure" in Urdu and Persian. It was coined in 1933 as Pakstan by Choudhary Rahmat Ali, a Pakistan Movement activist, who published it in his 1933 pamphlet Now or Never, calling for the creation of a Muslim state in what would become Pakistan. The letter i was incorporated to ease pronunciation and form the linguistically correct and meaningful name.
Related Terms
- Islamabad: The capital city of Pakistan.
- Karachi: The most populous city in Pakistan.
- Punjab: The most populous province of Pakistan.
- Sindh: The second most populous province of Pakistan.
- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: A province of Pakistan.
- Balochistan: A province of Pakistan.
- Gilgit-Baltistan: An administrative territory of Pakistan.
- Azad Kashmir: An administrative territory of Pakistan.
- Federally Administered Tribal Areas: A former administrative territory of Pakistan.
- Urdu: The national language of Pakistan.
- Pakistan Movement: The successful historical movement against British and Hindu domination to create the nation of Pakistan.
External links
- Medical encyclopedia article on Pakistan
- Wikipedia's article - Pakistan
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