Pakistan

F. Blashfield Jean

Description

Cuba offers complete coverage of this fascinating country, including sections on history, geography, wildlife, infrastructure and government, and culture. It also includes a detailed fact file, maps and charts, and a traceable flag.

Sujets

• Pakistán
• Pakistan

Informations

• Publié par: Capstone Global Library
• Date de parution: 05 juillet 2011
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781406233513
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

Extrait

Countries Around the World Pakistan

Jean F. Blashfield

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Edited by Louise Galpine Designed by Richard Parker Original illustrations © Capstone Global Library 2011 Illustrated by Oxford Designers and Illustrators Picture research by Mica Brancic Originated by Capstone Global Library Ltd. Printed in China by CTPS

ISBN 978 1 406 22782 6 (hardback) 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Blashfield, Jean F. Pakistan. --(Countries around the world) 954.9'1053-dc22

Acknowledgements We would like to thank the following for permission to reproduce photographs: Alamy pp. 5, 15 (© J Marshall - Tribaleye Images), 13 (© Asianet-Pakistan/Owais Aslam Ali), 19 (© National Geographic Image Collection/Joel Sartore), 26 (© F1online digitale Bildagentur GmbH/Harald Lueder), 31 (© Fabienne Fossez); AP/Press Association Images p. 37 (Vincent Thian), 8; Corbis p. 9 (© Bettmann); Getty Images pp. 6 (Robert Harding World Imagery/Ursula Gahwiler), 11 (Alex Wong), 16 (Bloomberg/Asad Zaidi), 23 (AFP Photo/ Farooq Naeem), 25 (Daniel Berehulak), 29, 32 (AFP Photo/ Asif Hassan), 30 (AFP Photo/Tariq Mahmood), 41 (The Image Bank/Art Wolfe); PA Wire/Press Association Images p. 34; Shutterstock pp. 7 (© Khalilshah), 21 (© Stayer), 33 (© Pichugin Dmitry), 35 (© Monkey Business Images), 39 (© Zotyesz), 46 (© Iakov Filimonov).

Cover photograph of trekkers crossing a swing bridge over the Braldu River en route to Baltoro Glacier, Karakoram Mountains, Pakistan, reproduced with permission of Getty Images (Minden Pictures/Colin Monteath/ Hedgehog House).

We would like to thank Lawrence Saez for his invaluable help in the preparation of this book.

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Contents

Introducing Pakistan ................................................................................. 4 History: building a nation........................................................................ 6 Regions and resources: from mountain to seashore ...................12 Wildlife: protecting Pakistan's nature ...............................................18 Infrastructure: working for all ..............................................................22

Culture: land of rich variety ..................................................................28 Pakistan today ...........................................................................................36 Factfile.........................................................................................................38 Timeline .......................................................................................................40 Glossary .......................................................................................................42 Findoutmore............................................................................................44 Topic tools...................................................................................................46 Index .............................................................................................................48

Some words are printed in bold,like this. You can înd out what they mean by looking in the glossary.

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Introducing Pakistan

Pakistan is both an ancient land and a new country. It is a land of contrasts. It has incredible wealth alongside great poverty. Its people live in bustling cities and remote villages, and they come from many differentethnic groups.

Creating Pakistan Pakistan was carved out of the northwestern and northeastern corners of India when it became independent from the United Kingdom in 1947. Later, the eastern part of Pakistan became a separate country, Bangladesh. The western part is what we now know as Pakistan.

Pakistanis a made-up name. The first part of the name is from the main provincesof the country: P is for Punjab, A for Afghania (now called Khyber Pakhunkhwa), K for Kashmir, and S for Sindh. The -tanending comes from the province of Balochistan.

Locating Pakistan Pakistan is over three times as big as the UK. Iran and Afghanistan border Pakistan to the west. China borders it to the north, while India borders it to the east. The country’s coastline is on the Arabian Sea.

Pakistan’s population in 2010 was approximately 166 million. It has the sixth-highest population of any nation on earth, but it is only 36th in terms of land area, which means that many people live in a small space. That small space is made even smaller because much of the northern part of the country is covered with towering mountains.

How to say... “Hello” in Urdu, the national language of Pakistan: Asslam-o-Alekum(AH-suh-lam-oh-uh-LAY-koom)