Local time
Wed, 10:36 PM GMT+5Asia/KarachiCityCapital
Islamabad
33.70° N, 73.16° E
- Population
- 780,000
- Population from Natural Earth (POP_MAX). The source does not state which year the figure belongs to, so no year is shown.
- Population rank
- 11 of 40
- Rank by Natural Earth population among the 40 cities of Pakistan in Terratlasia that have a population figure. Terratlasia does not list every city of Pakistan, so this is not a national ranking.
- Founded
- 1960
- Year of founding from Wikidata (P571). Only the year is known, not the day; a city whose sources give more than one year shows no row.
- Area
- 906 km²
- Total area from Wikidata (P2046). Where two statements differ by less than half a percent the smaller is shown; a larger disagreement (land area against total area, say) shows no row.
- Administrative unit
- Islamabad Capital Territory
- The administrative unit Wikidata files this city under (P131), one level below the state. The state itself is shown on its own row and is not repeated here; a city filed under more than three units shows no row at all.
- Time zone
- Asia/Karachi
Traveler brief
Only what this atlas can source — no hours, prices, visas or safety advice.
Practical bearings for Islamabad, from the same records as the rest of this page.
No places in Islamabad have been recorded yet. The map and the country page still carry its context.
Overview
Name
The name means "city of Islam" and derives from the Arabic "islam," referring to the Islamic faith, and the Persian suffix "-abad," meaning "inhabited place" or "city".
Source: CIA World Factbook · 2026-02-01 · text generated from this source, approved by a person
