Pakistan
This page was generated on 20 September 2026 at 12:27 UTC. The bundled facts on it were retrieved between 13 July 2026 and 8 August 2026. Aletheia's source record for emergency numbers records no retrieval date, so it is not covered by that range.
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Country outlines on Aletheia come from Natural Earth's 1:10-million public-domain boundary set, made by volunteer cartographers and supported by NACIS. Where a border is disputed, the line drawn is one cartographic convention among the competing claims — not a settled fact, and not Aletheia taking a side. Disputes we can source are listed rather than hidden inside the outline.
Pakistan is filled. The 8 other countries reaching this view are drawn in a dimmer tone — dimmed, not hidden. Unpainted ground is where no boundary in this dataset falls: open water, or land none of them claims.
The 4 hatched areas are contested, and Aletheia takes no position on any of them. The hatching marks where the dispute lies — including where it falls inside the outline — and it is the same set the list below names.
One part of Pakistan in this source is smaller than a pixel at this scale and is not drawn. Nothing larger than that is missing, and it has not been enlarged to make it visible.
Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m. Disputed areas: Natural Earth (public domain). Equirectangular projection, standard parallel 30.4°N — distances and areas away from that parallel are stretched. View: 59.4°E–78.5°E, 22.5°N–38.3°N.
Disputed areas involving Pakistan
4 areas whose status is contested. Aletheia takes no position on any of them. Each is described in the source’s own words.
Azad Kashmir · Disputed
Admin. by Pakistan; Claimed by India
Also involves India
Gilgit-Baltistan · Disputed
Admin. by Pakistan; Claimed by India
Also involves Afghanistan, China, India
Jammu and Kashmir · Disputed
Admin. by India; Claimed by Pakistan
Shaksam Valley · Disputed
Admin. by China; Ceded to China by Pakistan; Claimed by India
Also involves China
Source: Natural Earth’s disputed-areas layer (public domain). The list is not exhaustive, and inclusion or omission is not a judgment about any claim’s merit. What has happened in these places is not described here — that needs a source Aletheia has not yet been able to read.
News sources
1 source from Pakistanin Aletheia’s registry. Coverage here is thin.
- Dawn
sources not yet assessed
Official alerts
no source connectedNo official alerting source is connected for this country yet. Its own authorities may well publish warnings — Aletheia simply does not carry them.
National legislature
National Assembly (Pakistan) ↗
Wikidata P856 · link checked and reachable
Local time
One time zone.
The current time needs JavaScript, so it is not shown here rather than shown wrong.
Conditions at the capital
We couldn't reach the weather service just now, so no conditions are shown. This is not a report that conditions are calm.
Weather from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)
Islamabad, 2026-09-20Sunrise 5:54 AM · sunset 6:07 PM12h 13m of daylightWaxing gibbous, 65% lit
At a glance
- ISO code
- PAKuncited
- Driving side
- leftcited
- Mains voltage
- 230 Vcited
- Capital
- Islamabaduncited
- Official languages
- English, Urducited
- Plug types
- Type C (Europlug), Type D (BS 546), Type G (BS 1363), Type M (BS 546)cited · letters are the IEC classification
- Official website
- pakistan.gov.pk ↗We could not reach this from our checker. Many government sites refuse automated requests, so this is not a report that the site is down.From the source's "official website" statement, kept here because the site is a government portal. We have not tested whether it loads.uncited
Population and economy
Population
Population of Pakistan: the UN's 2025 estimate is 255,219,554 people. The page shows that figure carried forward at about 7.5 more a minute. It is a projection, not a count, and the figure shown changes as time passes.
Not a count. This is the UN's 2025 estimate carried forward at the rate implied by the two most recent published years — arithmetic, not a measurement. Nobody counts a country continuously, and the true figure right now is unknown.
Where this number comes from
- Base figure
- 255,219,554 people
- For the year
- 2025 — a mid-year estimate, so it describes 1 July 2025
- Compared with
- 251,269,164 people in 2024
- Rate applied
- about 7.5 more a minute (3,953,015 a year)
- How that rate was found
- The difference between the 2024 and 2025 estimates, divided by the time between them. It is our arithmetic on two published figures — the source does not publish this rate.
- Carried forward
- 0 days beyond the base figure's date
- Source
- UN World Population Prospects and national statistical offices, compiled by the World Bank · source updated 2026-07-13
- The source's own definition
- The values shown are midyear estimates.
THIS NUMBER IS NOT A MEASUREMENT, AND ITS MOVEMENT IS NOT NEWS. No country counts its population continuously. A census is periodic, and every figure between censuses — including the estimate this starts from — is a projection. What you are watching is that projection's trend applied to the clock on your phone. It moves because time passes, not because anyone was born or died. Treat the digits beyond the first few as arithmetic rather than knowledge: the trend is real, the precision is not.
- Population
- 255,219,5542025
- GDP
- 407,307,214,4762025
- GDP per capita
- 1,5962025
- Life expectancy at birth
- 67.8 years2024
- Exports
- 10.0%2025
- Imports
- 17.2%2025
Compiled by the World Bank from: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wpp/, publisher: UN Population Division · source updated 2026-07-13 · each figure is dated because the most recent value was chosen by us, not by the source
World Heritage Sites
6 World Heritage Sitesshow all
- Mohenjo-daro · inscribed 1980
- Taxila · inscribed 1980
- Buddhist Ruins of Takht-i-Bahi and Neighbouring City Remains at Sahr-i-Bahlol · inscribed 1980
- Historical Monuments at Makli, Thatta · inscribed 1981
- Fort and Shalamar Gardens in Lahore · inscribed 1981
- Rohtas Fort · inscribed 1997
Register from Wikidata (CC0) · in inscription order · links go to UNESCO
Emergency numbers
- 15listed as: police
- 16listed as: fire department
- 1122listed as: emergency medical services
Shown in numerical order, which is not an order of priority.
Listed by the source, mostly from ITU-T E.129. We have not dialled these numbers, and where a service is named it is the source's description rather than ours.
Explore this country
Regions
First-level regions as GeoNames lists them, shown alphabetically · each page computes daylight at the region’s own coordinates
Currency
PKR
News coverage here is counted from Aletheia’s bundled source registry plus the sources the Host had admitted as of 2026-09-14. A source admitted since that date has not reached this page yet, so this is a floor rather than a total.