Karachi The City of Quaid i Azam.
is capital of Sindh as well as the largest and most populous metropolitan city of Pakistan and the main seaport and financial centre of the country. Karachi is also known as City of Lights
mainly due to city's night life, for which it is famous as the city
which never sleeps. Karachi metro has an estimated population of over
23.5 million people as of 2013, and area of approximately 3,527 km2 (1,362 sq mi),resulting in a density of more than 6,000 people per square kilometre (15,500 per square mile). Karachi is the 2nd-largest city in the world by population within city limits, the 7th largest urban agglomeration in the world and the largest city in the Muslim world.
It is Pakistan's centre of banking, industry, economic activity and
trade and is home to Pakistan's largest corporations, including those
involved in textiles, shipping, automotive industry, entertainment, the arts, fashion, advertising, publishing, software development and medical research. The city is a hub of higher education in South Asia and the Muslim world.
Karachi is ranked as a beta world city. It was the capital of Pakistan until Islambad
was constructed as a capital to spread development evenly across the
country and to prevent it from being concentrated in Karachi. Karachi is the location of the Port of Karachi and Port Bin Qasim,
two of the region's largest and busiest ports. After the independence
of Pakistan, the city population increased dramatically when hundreds of
thousands of Muslim Muhajirs from India and from other parts of South Asia came to settle in Karachi.
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