• Pakistan’s estimated population 219,934,209 as of Monday, April 13, 2020, making it the world’s fifth-most-populous country.
• The name Pakistan means “Land of the pure” in Persian and Urdu.
• Two people have won the Nobel Prize from Pakistan. Malala Yousafzai for Peace in 2014 and Abdus Salam for Physics in 1979.
• Pakistan is the world’s first Islamic country to attain nuclear power.
• Pakistan has the highest paved international road–The Karakoram Highway (KKH).
• Pakistan has the Sixth largest armed force in the world. It has 653,000 people in its army. UN peacekeeping missions are supported largely by the Pakistani army.
• According to a survey, Pakistan has one of the world’s top national anthem tunes. The duration of Pakistan’s National Anthem is 80 seconds.
• Pakistanis are the fourth-most intelligent people in the world, according to poll results gathered from 125 countries by the Institute of European Business Administration.

• Sialkot, located in Pakistan, is the world’s largest producer of hand sewn footballs. Local factories in the region produce 40-60 million footballs a year, which is roughly 50-70% of the world’s total production. The football manufacturing industry now consists of more than 200 factories.
• Pakistan has the largest canal-based irrigation system in the world.
• Edhi Foundation Pakistan has the world’s largest ambulance network. It is also listed in the Guinness Book of World Records, operates about 2000 Ambulance in the network.
• Pakistan boasts the world’s highest ATM (automated teller machine). The ATM is operated by the National Bank of Pakistan and it is installed at a height of 16,007 feet above sea level, at the Pak-China border, Khunjerab Pass.
• Karachi, the largest city of Pakistan, is its financial hub as well as home to almost 20 million people. It also has a major seaport. Karachi was the first capital city of Pakistan and now Islamabad.

• Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) was founded on 23 October 1946 as Orient Airways. The airline was nationalized on January 10^th, 1955. The airline has a world record for flying the fastest between London and Karachi. PIA achieved this feat in 1962 when they completed the flight in 6 hours, 43 minutes, 55 seconds, a record which remains unbroken to this day.
• K-2 (Chagori) is the highest mountain peak in Pakistan and the second highest in the world. If we check the list of top 20 highest mountains peaks 8 of the World’s highest peaks are in Pakistan.
• Pakistan also made history with the youngest civil judge in the world.Mohammed Ilyas passed the exam when he was 20 years and 9 months old and thus became the youngest civil judge in the world.
• Pakistan has the only fertile desert in the world The Tharparkar desert  located in Sindh province.
• The world’s seventh-largest collection of scientists and engineers is from Pakistan.

• The ‘Khewra Salt Mine’ in Pakistan is the second largest and oldest salt mine in the world.
• MM Alam, late Air Commodore from Pakistan, is known to have shot five planes in less than One minute during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
• Pakistan is the only Muslim country after Turkey to open Combat Jobs for women.
• Pakistan is also famous for truck art (decorating trucks with complex floral patterns and poetic calligraphy). Trucks are painted with a splash of colors and the artists’ creativity is very appealing.
• Pakistan is also blessed with Jahangir Khan, a former World No. 1 professional squash player. Between 1981 and 1986, he won 555 matches consecutively (the longest winning streak by any athlete in top-level professional sports as recorded by Guinness World Records).
• Pakistan is the fourth largest cotton producing country in the world (2017).
• Pakistan is world’s fourth largest milk producing country.
• Out of the total land area in Pakistan, 25% is under agricultural cultivation. Pakistan irrigates three times more land area than Russia.

• Islamabad, Pakistan is ranked the second most beautiful capital in the world.
• The largest earth-filled damin the world (and fifth largest by structural volume) is the ‘Tarbela Dam’ on the Indus river in Pakistan. The dam was built in 1968 and 1976. The dam is 143.26 meters high and 2,743.2 meters long.
• Pakistan is also known for its missile technology,which is one of the best in the world.
• The once world’s largest man-made forest is in Pakistan – the Changa Manga forest (12,423 acres in area). It is named after two brother dacoits; the Changa Manga forest was originally planted in 1866 by British foresters.
• Pakistan has some of the best-trained air force pilots in the world.
• The Shah Faisal Mosque in Pakistan can accommodate 300,000 worshipers at a time. It was the largest mosque in the world from 1986 until 1993.
• Sohail Abbas, a Pakistani field hockey defender,is the highest goal scorer in the history of field hockey, with his current goal tally at 348.
• In 2013, Lonely Planet–the largest travel guide book publisher in the world–titled Pakistan, ‘The Next Big Thing’.
• Pakistani intelligenceagency ISI is considered the best intelligence corps in the world, even better than the CIA.
• Pakistan is also one of the top producers and exporters of surgical instruments in the world. According to  source, almost 99% of these instruments are produced in Sialkot.
• In the last five years, Pakistan’s literacy rate has grown by 250%, the largest increase in any country to date.

• Shandur Pass located in Chitral District and Ghizer (Gherz) District, Balawaristan, North Pakistan is home to the world’s highest Polo ground at 3,700 meters. Since 1936, traditional polo festival is being held on Shandur Top.
• Gwadar port is the largest deep sea port in the world,located on the southwestern Arabian Sea along the coastline of Baluchistan, Pakistan. The port has an area of 64,000 square meters and has a depth of more than 14 meters.
• Located at the northern end of the Kaghan Valley, Lake Saiful Muluk, isone of the highest lakes in Pakistan, at an elevation of 3,224 m (10,578 feet) above sea level.
• Mohenjo-Daro is an archaeological site in the province of Sindh, Pakistan.It was one of the largest and most advanced cities in the world during its time (built around 2500 BCE).
• Makli Hill located in Thatta, Pakistan is home to over half a million tombs and graves. It is one of the largest necropolises (a large, designed cemetery with elaborate tomb monuments) in the world. The tombs were built over a period of 400 years between the 14th and 18th centuries.
• The world’s longest glacial system outside the Polar Regions The Biafo Glacier  is in Pakistan.
• Gaddani, Pakistan is also home to the world’s third-largest ship breaking yard.
• The Badshahi Mosque in Lahore,Pakistan is one of the world’s largest mosques. It was commissioned by the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb in 1671 and its construction completed in 1673.