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Google Earth is a web and computer program that renders a 3D representation of Earth based primarily on satellite imagery.The program maps the Earth by superimposing satellite images, aerial photography, and GIS data onto a 3D globe, allowing users to see cities and landscapes from various angles.
Karachi is one of the world's fastest-growing cities, [32] and has significant communities representing almost every ethnic group in Pakistan. Karachi holds more than two million Bengali immigrants, a million Afghan refugees, and up to 400,000 Rohingyas from Myanmar. [33] [34] [35] Karachi is now Pakistan's premier industrial and financial centre.
Karachi was the national capital from 1947 until 1959. Over the next several decades it became one of the fastest-growing cities in the world, doubling its population from 1981 to 1999. [1] The hills in Karachi are the off-shoots of the Kirthar Range. The highest point of these hills in Karachi is about 528m in the extreme north.
Gulshan-e-Hadeed or Gulshan-e-Hadid (Sindhi: گلشن حديد ) (meaning Garden of Iron) is a residential neighborhood in the Bin Qasim Town of Malir District in Karachi, Pakistan. [2] Water tank at Gulsan-e-Hadeed. Gulshan-e-Hadeed was built near Pakistan Steel Mills for housing its employees in the late 1980s, and thus the name. The Gulshan ...
It is situated 56 km from Karachi city in Karachi and Hub District on Sindh and Balochistan provinces border. The dam is extended to 24300 acres with gross storage capacity of 857000 acre feet. It is Pakistan's fifth-largest dam. [4] It is an important source that provides the drinking water to the metropolitan city Karachi. [5]
Karachi East Karachi West Karachi South Karachi Central Malir Korangi Kemari. Cantonments A. Karachi Cantonment B. Clifton Cantonment C. Korangi Creek Cantonment D. Faisal Cantonment E. Malir Cantonment F. Manora Cantonment
The harbour is divided into an Upper and Lower Harbour, which together have a length of 11.5 kilometres (7.1 mi). [1] The Upper Harbour has been developed into the Port of Karachi, and is located between the East and West Wharfs of the port, [3] where it then goes on eastward to form a series of backwaters with thick mangrove forests known as Chinna Creek.
North Nazimabad (Urdu: نارتھ ناظم آباد) is a suburb of Karachi, Pakistan.North Nazimabad was developed in the late 1950s as a residential area for the employees of the federal government of Pakistan, and was named after Khawaja Nazimuddin who was the second Governor-General of Pakistan and later the second Prime Minister of Pakistan.