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Karachi
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Karachi

Provincial capital of Sindh, Pakistan

Citymetropolisadministrative territorial entitycity or townQ8660

Also known as Heart of Pakistan · The Lighting City · Kurrachee · Karatchi · Crotchey

Country
Located in
Population
Area
  • 3,527 km²
Elevation
  • 8 m
Head of government
Founded
  • 1729
Postal code
  • 74000–75900

Overview

All data

156 statements · 16% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Twinned administrative body
Capital
Capital of
Geography of topic
Permanent duplicated item
Native label
  • کَراچی transliteration or transcription: Karācī
  • Karachi
  • ڪراچي
Official name
  • کراچی
  • ڪراچي
Vehicle registration plate code
  • KA
  • KC
Local dialing code
  • 021
Demonym
Legislative body
Owner of
Office held by the head of government
Category for people buried here
Official language
Economy of topic
Demographics of topic
Different from
Hashtag
  • Karachi
Member of
Continent

On other databases

71 identifiers linking Karachi across the web's reference databases