Karachi

 

Karachi is the largest city of Pakistan. It is the main seaport and the main financial hub of Pakistan. According to 1998 poll its population is approximately 16 to 18 million. Karachi is one of the world’s widespread cities in terms of inhabitants and the 10th leading urban aggregation. It is Pakistan’s leading center of banking, industry, and trade. And is habitat to Pakistan’s leading corporations witch are concerned with textiles, shipping, automotive industry, entertainment, the arts, fashion, advertising, publishing, software development and medical research. The city is considered as nucleus of higher education in South Asia and the wider Islamic world.
Karachi was initially the capital of Pakistan until the construction of Islamabad. Karachi is ranked as a Beta world city. There are sites of seaport Karachi and Port Bin Qasim, two of the region’s major and busiest ports. After the independence of Pakistan, hundreds of thousands Urdu-speaking migrants or Muhajirs from India, East Pakistan (later Bangladesh) and other parts of South Asia came to settle in Karachi, that’s why the population of this city was increased dramatically.
The area of this city is stretch over 3,527sq km (1,362 sq miles), nearly four times bigger than Hong Kong. Karachi is known by different names like, “City of Lights” and “The bride of the cities” for its dynamism, and the “City of the Quaid”. The leader and founder of Pakistan Quaid-e-Azam (Muhammad Ali Jinnah), was born and buried in Karachi.