Karachi

Karachi  (; ) is the lairgest ceety, main seaport an the main financial centre o Pakistan, an the caipital o the province o Sindh. Wi an estimatit population atween 13 million an 15 million, Karachi is ane o the warld's lairgest ceeties in terms o population, the 13t lairgest urban agglomeration, an the 4t lairgest metropolitan aurie in the warld.R.L. Forstall, R.P. Greene, and J.B. Pick, "Which are the largest? Why published populations for major world urban areas vary so greatly" , City Futures Conference, (University of Illinois at Chicago, July 2004) – Table 5 (p.34) It is Pakistan's premier centre o bankin, industry, an trade an is hame tae Pakistan's lairgest corporations, includin those involved in textiles, shippin, automotive industry, entertainment, the airts, fashion, advertisin, publishin, software development an medical research. The ceety is a major hub o heicher education in Sooth Asie an the wider Islamic warld.

Karachi is ranked as a Beta warld ceety. It wis the oreeginal caipital o Pakistan till the construction o Islamabad an is the location o the Port o Karachi an Port Bin Qasim, twa o the region's lairgest an busiest ports. Efter the unthirldom o Pakistan, the ceety population increased dramatically when hunders o thoosans o Urdu-speakin migrants or Muhajirs frae Indie, East Pakistan (later Bangladesh) an ither pairts o Sooth Asie came tae settle in Karachi.

The ceety is spread ower 3,527 km2 (1,362 sq mi) in aurie, amaist fower times bigger than Hong Kong. It is locally kent as the "Ceety o Lichts" () an "The bride o the ceeties" () for its liveliness, an the "Ceety o the Quaid" (), haein been the birth an burial place o Quaid-e-Azam (Muhammad Ali Jinnah), the foonder o Pakistan, who made the ceety his hame efter Pakistan's unthirldom.

 Sister ceeties 
  Jakarta, Indonesie
  Shanghai, Fowkrepublic o Cheenae, syne 15 Februar 1984
  Port Louis, Mauritius syne 1 Mey 2007
  Houston, Unitit States syne 8 Mey 2008
  Moscow, Roushie
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Category:Caipitals o Pakistan
Category:Ceeties o Pakistan
Category:Coastal ceeties an touns in Pakistan
Category:Umwhile naitional caipitals

Category:Metropolitan auries o Pakistan
Category:Populatit places in Sindh
Category:Port ceeties an touns in Pakistan
Category:Ports an herbours o the Indie Ocean