Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan ranks 60th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Peru, Morocco, and Azerbaijan. Memorable people born in present day Pakistan include Akbar, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, and Guru Nanak. Memorable people who died in Pakistan include Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Guru Nanak, and Muhammad Iqbal. Pakistan has been the birth place of many politicians, and actors and the death place of many politicians, and writers.

Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the second-largest Muslim population as of 2023. Islamabad is the nation's capital, while Karachi is its largest city and financial centre. Pakistan is the 33rd-largest country by area. Bounded by the Arabian Sea on the south, the Gulf of Oman on the southwest, and the Sir Creek on the southeast, it shares land borders with India to the east; Afghanistan to the west; Iran to the southwest; and China to the northeast. It shares a maritime border with Oman in the Gulf of Oman, and is separated from Tajikistan in the northwest by Afghanistan's narrow Wakhan Corridor. Read more on Wikipedia