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Pakistan Education
Pakistan's climate varies from tropical to temperate
with arid conditions existing in the coastal south,
characterized by a monsoon season with adequate rainfall
and a dry season with lesser rainfall. Pakistan
is a multilingual country. Its national language, Urdu,
is the mother tongue of only 7.57 per cent of the
population though it is very widely used in the urban
areas of the country. Pakistan's official language is
still English as it was when the British ruled the
country as part of British India. The official currency of Pakistan is the
rupee (PKR). One rupee consists of 100 paise (singular =
paisa). When Pakistan began printing its own currency in
1948, they used Indian currency with "Pakistan" stamped
on it for the first few months until enough of the
Pakistani notes were in circulation. Pakistan was estimated to be 126
million, making it the ninth most populous country in
the world, the population growth rate is among the
world's highest, officially estimated at 3.1 percent per
year. Islamabad is the capital of
Pakistan and the tenth largest city in the country. |
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