Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Islamabad
- Region
- Asia, Southern Asia
- Population
- 255,219,554 (2025)
- Area
- 803,940 km²
- Currency
- Pakistani rupee (PKR)
- Languages
- Urdu, English, Panjabi, Sindhi, Pushto
- Calling code
- +92
- Internet domain
- .pk
- ISO codes
- PK, PAK, 586
- Time zone
- UTC+5:00
- United Nations
- Member state
- Postal code pattern
- ##### (# = digit, @ = letter)
Land and position
Pakistan covers about 803,940 square kilometres. By area it ranks 36th among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Namibia and a little larger than Mozambique. It shares a land border with 4 neighbours: Afghanistan, China, India, Iran. Its centre lies at about 30° north, 70° east, in the northern hemisphere.
Neighbours
People
About 255 million people live in Pakistan (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 5th most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure, with about 3.1 percent of the world's people. On average there are 317 people to each square kilometre. About 40 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 68 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: Urdu, English, Panjabi, Sindhi, Pushto, Brahui. A person from Pakistan is called Pakistani.
Money and economy
The currency is the Pakistani rupee (code PKR, symbol ₨). The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 407 billion (2025), which is about US$ 1,596 for each person (2025).
Time
Pakistan uses one time zone, UTC+5:00 (Asia/Karachi). Clocks stay the same all year: there is no daylight saving time.
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Offsets are for January 2026. See Time Zones for a converter.
Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Lahore | 13,004,135 |
| Karachi | 11,624,219 |
| Peshawar | 4,758,762 |
| Faisalabad | 3,800,193 |
| Rawalpindi | 3,357,612 |
| Gujranwala | 2,511,118 |
City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.
More in Southern Asia
Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka. See the whole region.
Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.