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Karachi District (Urdu: ضلع کراچی) Largest city and chief port of Pakistan, lying on the Arabian Sea, northwest of the Indus River Delta; population (1998 est) 9,269,300; 4 million live in makeshift settlements. It is the capital of Sindh province, and Pakistan's leading centre for commerce, finance, industry, and transport. Its port handles most of the international trade of the country, as well as of the neighbouring landlocked state of Afghanistan. It is also served by a major international airport. Industries include shipbuilding, engineering, chemicals, plastics and textiles, including the manufacture of cotton and jute. It was the capital of Pakistan 1947-59, when it was replaced by Islamabad.

Towns of Karachi

Karachi admin
Map of Karachi proper
  • Malir Town
  • Shah Faisal Town
  • Landhi Town
  • Korangi Town
  • Muhammad Bin Qasim Town
  • Gadap Town
  • Gulshan-e-Iqbal Town
  • Jamshed Town
  • Gulberg Town
  • Liaquatabad Town
  • North Nazimabad Town
  • New Karachi Town
  • Orangi Town
  • Baldia Town
  • SITE town
  • Lyari Town
  • Saddar Town
  • Keamari Town

Images for kids

  • PK Chaukhandi Necropolis near Karachi asv2020-02 img08

    The 15th–18th century Chaukhandi tombs are located 29 km (18 mi) east of Karachi.

  • Manora Beach, Karachi Pakistan

    The Manora Fort, built-in 1797 to defend Karachi, was captured by the British on 3 February 1839 and upgraded 1888–1889.

  • A street in Old Town, Karachi, India. Photograph, 1897. Wellcome V0029261

    An 1897 image of Karachi's Rampart Row street in Mithadar

  • Frere-Hall-Karachi-Shamail

    Some of Karachi's most recognized structures, such as Frere Hall, date from the British Raj.

  • Karachi Municipal Corporation (KMC) Head Office at M.A Jinnah Road - Photo By Aliraza Khatri

    Karachi features several examples of colonial-era Indo-Saracenic architecture, such as the KMC Building.

  • Lord Mountbatten and his wife Advena in Karachi 14 August 1947

    Lord Mountbatten and his wife Edwina in Karachi 14 August 1947

  • Karachi ali 2010008 lrg

    Satellite view of Karachi 2010

  • HawkesBay

    Hawke's Bay, west of Karachi

  • Clifton Karachi at Night

    Clifton Skyline at night

  • Karachi beach panorama

    The Arabian Sea influences Karachi's climate, providing the city with more moderate temperatures compared to the interior Sindh province.

  • Karachi Chamber of Commerce

    The Karachi Chamber of Commerce Building. Central Karachi features several such buildings dating from the colonial era.

  • Karachi after rain-20160629

    Much of Karachi's skyline is decentralized, with some growth in traditionally suburban areas.

  • Old building of State Bank of Pakistan, Now its known as State Bank Museum

    The former State Bank of Pakistan building was built during the colonial era.

  • PK Karachi asv2020-02 img88 Charminar Chowrangi

    Karachi is home to large numbers of descendants of refugees and migrants from Hyderabad, in southern India, who built a small replica of Hyderabad's famous Charminar monument in Karachi's Bahadurabad area.

  • Abdullah Shah Ghazi Shrine Clifton Karachi

    Abdullah Shah Ghazi, an 8th Century Sufi mystic, is the patron saint of Karachi.

  • PK Karachi asv2020-02 img40 StPatrick Cathedral

    St. Patrick's Cathedral, built-in 1881, serves as the seat of the Archdiocese of Karachi.

  • SWAMI NARAYAN TEMPLE HADDID UDDIN - panoramio - Haddid Uddin

    The Swaminarayan Temple is the largest Hindu temple in Karachi.

  • Nagan Ch Karachi

    Nagan Chowrangi interchange is a major intersection in northern Karachi.

  • Lyari Expressway SSS Man Interchange

    Lyari Expressway Interchange

  • Karachi cantt. station full facade

    Karachi's Cantonment railway station is one of the city's primary transport hubs.

  • Greenline Metrobus Station 2

    Greeline Metrobus Station

  • Karachi Circular Railway

    Karachi Circular Railway

  • PK Karachi Airport asv2020-01

    Karachi's Jinnah International Airport is the busiest and second largest airport in Pakistan.

  • Kharachi Port

    The Port of Karachi is one of South Asia's largest and busiest deep-water seaports.

  • Bvs 608

    Bai Virbaijee Soparivala (B.V.S.) Parsi High School

  • DJCollegeKarachi

    The D. J. Sindh Government Science College is one of Karachi's oldest universities and dates from 1887.

  • Mohenjo-daro Priesterkönig

    The famous "Priest-King" statue of the Indus Valley civilization is displayed at Karachi's National Museum of Pakistan.

  • Another beautiful View of "Mohatta Palace"

    Built as a home for a wealthy Hindu businessman, the Mohatta Palace is now a museum open to the public.

  • Hindu Gymkhana Karachi

    Built by Hindus under British rule, the Gymkhana Building was repurposed to house the National Academy of Performing Arts.

  • PK Karachi asv2020-02 img57 Tooba Mosque

    The Tooba Mosque. Karachi saw construction of several such modernist style buildings in the 1950s and 1960s.

  • OldUSConsulateKarachi

    The former US Embassy, designed by modernist architect Richard Neutra

  • Inside the National Stadium, Karachi 01

    The National Stadium in Karachi

  • Bahria Icon Karachi 1

    At a height of 300 metres (980 ft), Bahria Icon Tower is the tallest skyscraper in Pakistan.

  • Lucky One Mall

    Lucky One Mall is the largest shopping mall in Pakistan as well as in South Asia with an area of about 3.4 million square feet.

  • Millenium Mall

    Millenium Mall

  • PK Karachi asv2020-02 img22 Chundrigar Road

    Karachi's downtown is centred on I. I. Chundrigar Road.

  • EFU Life By Asif Akbar

    Many corporations are located in Defence and Clifton.

  • Karachi Port Trust (KPT) Head Office Building Karachi

    Karachi Port Trust Building

  • KhaliqDeenaHall1

    Khaliq Dina Hall

  • Empress Market as of 2021

    Empress Market

  • Ocean Tower Clifton Karachi

    Ocean Tower

  • PK Karachi asv2020-02 img62 Frere Hall

    Frere Hall

  • Merewether Clock Tower 01

    Merewether Clock Tower

  • Katrak Bandstand

    Katrak Bandstand at the Jehangir Kothari Parade

  • Dolmen Towers

    Dolmen Twin Towers

  • Bahria Town Karachi Grand Mosque 2

    Grand Jamia Mosque

  • Habib Bank Sadar

    Habib Bank Plaza

  • Teen Talwar Clifton Karachi 2

    Teen Talwar Monument Clifton

See also

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