Top 10 Interesting Facts About Pakistan
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In this Article of Countries facts I'm revisiting the country of Pakistan and I'm excited for this one hey guys welcome to Countries facts once again and I hope you're doing great also make sure you watch this Article till the end and if you love this Article and you want more facts about Pakistan leave a comment down below saying that you want more facts and with that said let's just jump into this Article now the first thing I want to share with you is that Pakistan.
1 Pakistan is home to the highest mountain ranges in the world in order from tallest to shortest there is the Himalayas with an elevation of 29,029 feet and then there's the Karakoram at 28,000 251 feet and finally the Hindu Kush range all of which are located in Pakistan as well as other countries of course now the second highest mountain in the world is known as k2 and it's a part of the Karakoram mountain range it's like heaven for mountain climbers like really now interestingly enough although Pakistan has not won a medal in the Olympics since 1992 that year they want a bronze medal for field hockey before that I did not know that Pakistan.
2 Pakistan had a field hockey team I thought you're talking about ice hockey then I looked into and I was like oh yeah field hockey yeah yeah but we got the Olympics coming up in 2020 so I'm just wishing Pakistan.
3 Pakistan the best of luck maybe this is their year to get another medal gold medal this time Faxon also has the world's largest ambulance network abdul Sattar Edhi founded the world's largest volunteer ambulance network in pakistan.
4 Pakistan and this network is also listed in the Guinness Book of World Records abdul Sattar Edhi dedicated his life to the poor from the age of 20 years old when he himself was completely broke and sadly he passed away in the year 2016 at the age of 88 but his legacy still lives on now for the longest time I just heard the name Pakistan.
5 Pakistan and I never really thought you know what does the name actually even mean outside of just being a cool word so I got curious and I found out of the name Pakistan actually has a great meaning it means land of the you're in Persian and Purdue Ferguson is also sometimes portrayed as the little brother of India at least to us living in the West anyways so some people have gotten the impression that Pakistan is a small country but that definitely is not true at all Pakistan.
6 Pakistan is now the fifth most populated country in the entire world with 218 million people and that's growing fast also Pakistan has a total land area of seven hundred and seventy thousand eight hundred and eighty square kilometers now a full name for the country is the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
7 Republic of Pakistan and it is unique among other Muslim countries because it's the only Muslim country that has and maintained research center in the Antarctic and that is the Jinnah antartic station or Jas for short also one of the eighth wonders of the world is a Karakoram highway now
8 Karakoram is the highest paved international road and the highway can bring you from Pakistan to China and it is fifteen thousand three hundred ninety seven feet high and 1,300 kilometers or 800 miles long it's also extremely dangerous as well because there's a lot of sharp rocks and turns and everything so drive on the highway at your own risk but it's still a beauty to look at and of course it gives Pakistan some bragging rights right now what do you think does it right you probably think ah ok nothing grows there but actually that's not true in the DARPA car.
9 Desert in the DARPA car district it's the only fertile desert in the world and it's also located in Pakistan the area is a Hindu majority region with the largest Hindu population in Pakistan now there are valleys and ridges that shoot up about 46 meters and when it rains these valleys become moist enough for grass to start growing now Pakistan there are 15,000 new babies born each and every single day that's roughly ten babies born per minute so by the time this Article is over about 50 to 70 would be born you know our Article average between 5 minutes to 7 minutes I'm not sure how long this is gonna be after it's edited but yeah that's a whole lot of babies no wonder the country is growing so fast and the final thing I want to share with you guys is in 2012 the Institute of Business Administration gathered a poll from 125 countries and Pakistan.
10 Pakistan came in fourth as the most intelligent country in the world it was said that Pakistanis are equal to the people of developed and industrialised countries when it comes to intelligence so yeah Pakistan not only a lot of babies are being born but a lot of intelligent people are being born in that country as well so alright guys that wraps up this Article about ten surprising facts about Pakistan I had a whole lot of fun researching this one and filming it.
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