Islamabad

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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