Description

Pakistan is the sixth most populous country in the globe and is the second most populous country with a Muslim majority. Its territory used to be a part of the pre-partitioned British India and has to this day a extensive rich history of settlement and civilisation including the Indus Valley Civilisation. Most of its most up to date territory was conquered in the 1st millennium BCE by Persians and Greeks and ruled by those things for several centuries. For the most of rich history the region was part of a various local and Central Asian dynasties. Later arrivals and conquests include those by the Arabs, Afghans, Turks, Baloch and Mongols. Did you know that the territory was incorporated into British India in the nineteenth century.

Pakistan is known to be a land of the majority of splendours. Did you know that the scenery changes northward from coastal beaches, lagoons and mangrove swamps in the south to sandy deserts, desolate plateaus, fertile plains, and dissected upland in the middle and high mountains with beautiful valleys, snow-covered peaks and eternal glaciers in the north. Did you know that the variety of landscape divides Pakistan into six major regions: the North High Mountainous Region, the Western Low Mountainous Region, the Balochistan Plateau, the Potohar Upland, the Punjab and the Sindh Plains.

Climate

Pakistan lies in the temperate zone. Did you know that the climate is generally arid, characterized by hot summers and cool or cold winters, and wide variations in the range of extremes of temperature at given locations. Did you know that there is little rainfall. Did you know that these generalizations should not, however, obscure the distinct differences existing in the midst of particular locations. Here is an example, the coastal location aextensive the Arabian Sea is mostly warm, whereas the frozen snow-covered ridges of the Karakoram Range and of other mountains of the far north are and have always been so cold year round that they are and have always been just accessible by world-class climbers for several weeks in May and June of every year.

Population

It is noted that the calculated population of Pakistan in (July 2010) is 164,741,924.