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'''Karachi''' ({{lang-ur|کاراچی}} कराची) is the largest [[city]] in [[Pakistan]] and the capital of the province of [[Sindh]]. Until 1958, it was also the capital of Pakistan. It is also called the City of Lights. It is also one of the world's biggest [[megacities]].<ref>{{citation|author=Barbara A. Weightman|title=Dragons and Tigers: A Geography of South, East, and Southeast Asia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qeBfed17zxEC&pg=PA187|date=15 June 2011|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-11-1813-998-1|ref={{sfnref|Barbara A. Weightman|2011}}}}</ref> In 2017, there are about 17.63 million people who live in Karachi.<ref name="kp">{{cite web|title=Karachi Population 2017|url=http://worldpopulationreview.com/world-cities/karachi-population/|accessdate=13 June 2017|publisher=World Population Review}}</ref> It is the largest city in the [[Islam|Muslim]] world.<br />
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Karachi has many names including "Mai Kolachi Jo Goth" and "Karatishi". A native of Karachi is called a '''Karachiite'''. [[Quaid-e-Azam]] (Muhammad Ali Jinnah), who was the founder of Pakistan, was born and buried in Karachi. Karachi has two important regional seaports. Karachi also makes the largest share of Pakistan's [[Gross domestic product|GDP]] and national revenue. <br />
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Karachi has five districts: District South, District East, District West, District Central, and District Malir. The city is the financial and commercial center of Pakistan.<br />
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Karachi has 26 universities including the [[University of Karachi]]. It is home to the [[National Stadium, Karachi|National Stadium]], which hosts many [[cricket]] games, and several other sports complexes. The city has several long sandy beaches including Clifton/Kemari beach and Sandspit beach. Clifton beach suffered from an oil spillage but the beach was cleaned. Karachi has Pakistan's first nuclear site, KANUP in 1952 from Canada. Karachi hosted the first ever night hockey match between India and Pakistan in 1986 at Hockey Club of Pakistan Stadium.<br />
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Karachi has many large and small shopping areas including the Saddar area in downtown Karachi. Karachi also has a number of large modern shopping malls. <br />
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The city has a modern international airport ([[Jinnah International Airport]]) and two large shipping ports, [[Port of Karachi|the Port of Karachi]] and [[Port Qasim]]. Karachi is linked by railway to the rest of Pakistan.<br />
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Karachi has a hot [[desert climate]] (''BWh'' in the [[Koeppen climate classification]]).<br />
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==Related pages==<br />
* [[Islamabad]]<br />
* [[Lahore]]<br />
* [[Peshawar]]<br />
* [[Quetta]]<br />
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