Islamabad is the capital of Pakistan and the tenth largest city in the country. The Rawalpindi / Islamabad metropolitan area is the third largest in Pakistan with a population of over 4.5 million people.
Islamabad is located in Pothohar Plateau in the northern part of the country in the Islamabad Capital Territory. The region has always been a part of the crossroads of Punjab and the Khyber Pass with Pakhtunkhwa Margalla acts as a bridge between the two regions. [6] The city was built in the 1960s to replace Karachi as the capital of Pakistan.
Islamabad is a city well-organized and divided into different sectors and regions. E 'was classified as Gamma world cities, 2008. [7] The city is home to the Faisal Mosque, the largest mosque in South Asia and the sixth largest mosque in the world.
Islamabad has the highest literacy rate in Pakistan [8] and is home to some of the universities ranked in Pakistan, including the Quaid-i-Azam, Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences and National University of Science and Technology. [9] Islamabad Allama Iqbal Open University is the world's largest university by enrollment.
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