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| 1 | Sialkot ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 256 Lat/Lng : 32.4972 / 74.5361 | Sialkot (Urdu and) is a city in Punjab, Pakistan. Sialkot is Pakistan's 13th largest city, and is located in north-east Punjab — one of Pakistan's mostly highly industrialised regions. Along with the nearby cities of Gujranwala and Gujrat, Sialkot forms part of the so-called Golden Triangle of (...) | |
| 2 | Islamabad ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 533 Lat/Lng : 33.6939 / 73.065 | Islamabad is the capital city of Pakistan, and is federally administered as part of the Islamabad Capital Territory. Built as a planned city in the 1960s to replace Karachi as Pakistan's capital, Islamabad is noted for its high standards of living, safety, and abundant greenery (...) | |
| 3 | Peshawar ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 325 Lat/Lng : 34.0167 / 71.5833 | Peshawar (Pēkhawar pronunciation; ;) is the capital of the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Situated in the broad Valley of Peshawar near the eastern end of the historic Khyber Pass, close to the border with Afghanistan, Peshawar's recorded history dates back to at least 539 BCE, making it (...) | |
| 4 | Chengdu ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 507 Lat/Lng : 30.657 / 104.066 | Chengdu , formerly romanized as Chengtu, is a sub-provincial city which serves as the capital of Sichuan province, People's Republic of China. It is one of the three most populous cities in Western China, the other two being Chongqing and Xi'an (...) | |
| 5 | Bogotá ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 2613 Lat/Lng : 4.5981 / -74.0758 | Bogotá , officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santafé/Santa Fé de Bogotá between 1991 and 2000, is the capital and largest city of Colombia, administered as the Capital District, although often erroneously thought of as part of Cundinamarca (...) | |
| 6 | Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 24.412 / 54.474 | Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan ; 6 May 1918 – 2 November 2004) was the Ruler of Abu Dhabi for 38 years (6 August 1966 – 2 November 2004). He is the founding father and the principal driving force behind the formation of the United Arab Emirates , becoming the Union's first President , a post (...) | |
| 7 | 2016 Pakistan Super League ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 554 Lat/Lng : 33.7167 / 73.0667 | The 2016 Pakistan Super League (or for sponsorship reasons HBL PSL 2016) was the debut season of the Pakistan Super League which was established by the Pakistan Cricket Board. The tournament featured five teams and was held from 4 February 2016 to 23 February 2016 in the United Arab Emirates (...) | |
| 8 | 2017 Pakistan Super League ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 554 Lat/Lng : 33.7167 / 73.0667 | The 2017 Pakistan Super League (also known as PSL 2 or, for sponsorship reasons, HBL PSL 2017), was the second season of the Pakistan Super League, a franchise Twenty20 cricket league which was established by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) in 2016 (...) | |
| 9 | 1996 Cricket World Cup ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 22.5667 / 88.3667 | The 1996 Cricket World Cup, also called the Wills World Cup 1996 after its official sponsors, ITC's Wills brand, was the sixth Cricket World Cup, organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC). It was the second World Cup to be hosted by Pakistan and India, and for the first time by Sri Lanka (...) | |
| 10 | 2018 Pakistan Super League ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 554 Lat/Lng : 33.7167 / 73.0667 | 2018 Pakistan Super League (also known as PSL 3 or for sponsorship reasons, HBL PSL 2018) was the third season of the Pakistan Super League, a franchise Twenty20 cricket league which was established by the Pakistan Cricket Board in 2015 (...) | |
| 11 | 2011 Cricket World Cup ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 22.3217 / 91.8153 | The 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup (officially known as ICC Cricket World Cup 2011) was the tenth Cricket World Cup. It was played in India, Sri Lanka, and (for the first time) Bangladesh. India won the tournament, defeating Sri Lanka by 6 wickets in the final at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, thus (...) | |
| 12 | Sri Lankan cricket team against Pakistan in the UAE in 2017–18 ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 3 Lat/Lng : 24.3964 / 54.5406 | The Sri Lanka cricket team toured the United Arab Emirates in September and October 2017 to play two Tests, five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches against the Pakistan cricket team (...) | |
| 13 | Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 3 Lat/Lng : 24.3964 / 54.5406 | The Sheikh Zayed Stadium is a cricket ground located in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The stadium cost $23 million to build and was opened in May 2004, with its inaugural first-class match being an Intercontinental Cup fixture between Scotland and Kenya in November of that year (...) | |
| 14 | Sheikh Zayed Mosque ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 24.412 / 54.474 | Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque is located in Abu Dhabi, the capital city of the United Arab Emirates. The largest mosque in the country, it is the key place of worship for daily prayers, Friday gathering and Eid prayers. During Eid it may be visited by more than 41,000 people (...) | |
| 15 | Lahore Race Club ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 217 Lat/Lng : 31.4389 / 74.3328 | Lahore Race Club, in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan, is a club concerned with the sport of horse racing, established in 1924 when Lahore was part of the Punjab Province of British India. The club is registered as a company. at pakboi.gov (...) | |
| 16 | Multan International Airport ![]() FeatureType : airport Elevation : 129 Lat/Lng : 30.2033 / 71.4192 | Multan International Airport is an international airport located 4 km west of Multan, Pakistan.http://www.multaninternationalairport.com.pk Multan International Airport The airport is southern Punjab's largest and busiest airport (...) | |
| 17 | Pakistan national cricket team ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 320 Lat/Lng : 34.0216 / 71.5784 | The Pakistan Men's National Cricket Team , popularly referred to as the Shaheens , Green Shirts and Men in Green,http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04x6xb6 BBC – When Pakistan's 'Cornered Tigers' Ruled the Worldhttp://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/story/410118 (...) | |
| 18 | Operation Zarb-e-Azb ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 880 Lat/Lng : 32.9626 / 70.1257 | Operation Zarb-e-Azb (Pashto/ ALA-LC:) was a joint military offensive conducted by the Pakistan Armed Forces against various militant groups, including the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, al-Qaeda, Jundallah (...) | |
| 19 | Pakistan Super League ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 554 Lat/Lng : 33.7167 / 73.0667 | Pakistan Super League (; PSL) is a Twenty20 cricket league, founded in Lahore on 9 September 2015 with five teams and now comprises six teams. Instead of operating as an association of independently owned teams, the league is a single entity in which each franchise is owned and controlled by (...) | |
| 20 | Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Agra ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 173 Lat/Lng : 27.3 / 78.0333 | The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Agra is a Latin Metropolitan archdiocese in northern India's Uttar Pradesh state. Its cathedral episcopal see is located in the city of Agra. (...) | |
| 21 | Gated community ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 28 Lat/Lng : 52.4133 / 13.0903 | In its modern form, a gated community (or walled community) is a form of residential community or housing estate containing strictly controlled entrances for pedestrians, bicycles, and automobiles, and often characterized by a closed perimeter of walls and fences (...) | |
| 22 | Amol ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 97 Lat/Lng : 36.4675 / 52.3506 | Amol (– ; ; also Romanized as Āmol and Amul) is a city and the administrative center of Amol County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. In the 2006 census, the surveyed population of the city was 197,470, in 55,183 families. Amol is located on the Haraz river bank (...) | |
| 23 | Gwadar International Airport ![]() FeatureType : airport Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 25.2322 / 62.3272 | Gwadar International Airport is an international airport situated 14 km (9 miles) north of the city centre of Gwadar, in the Balochistan province of Pakistan. (...) | |
| 24 | 2008 Asia Cup ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 57 Lat/Lng : 24.8961 / 67.0814 | The 2008 Asia Cup (also called STAR Cricket Asia Cup) took place in Pakistan in June 2008. The six teams which took part in the tournament were India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Asian associate nations UAE and Hong Kong (...) | |
| 25 | 2018 Mastung and Bannu bombings ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1827 Lat/Lng : 29.4087 / 67.1894 | On 13 July 2018, ahead of the Pakistan's general election, two bombings took place at election rallies in Bannu and Mastung. In Bannu, a remotely exploded bomb planted in a motorcycle left 5 people dead and 37 others wounded in an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate former Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief (...) | |
| 26 | Lockheed U-2 ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 36 Lat/Lng : 39.1466 / -121.4328 | The Lockheed U-2, nicknamed "Dragon Lady", is an American single-jet engine, ultra-high altitude reconnaissance aircraft operated by the United States Air Force (USAF) and previously flown by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) (...) | |
| 27 | Demolition of the Babri Masjid ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 110 Lat/Lng : 26.8 / 82.2 | On 6 December 1992, a large crowd of Hindu Kar Sevaks demolished the 16th-century Babri Mosque in the city of Ayodhya, in Uttar Pradesh. The demolition occurred after a political rally at the site turned violent. In Hindu tradition, the city of Ayodhya is the birthplace of Rama (...) | |
| 28 | 2013 Balochistan earthquakes ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 944 Lat/Lng : 27.0 / 65.514 | The 2013 Balochistan earthquakes took place in late September in southwestern Pakistan. The mainshock had a moment magnitude of 7.7 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong). At least 825 people were killed and hundreds more were injured. On 28 September, a M6 (...) | |
| 29 | 2011 NATO attack in Pakistan ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1296 Lat/Lng : 34.5 / 71.0 | The 2011 NATO attack in Pakistan (also known as the Salala incident, Salala attack or 26/11 attacks), was a border skirmish that occurred when US-led NATO forces engaged Pakistani security forces at two Pakistani military checkposts along the Afghanistan–Pakistan border on Saturday, 26 November 2011 (...) | |
| 30 | Jalalpur Pirwala ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 108 Lat/Lng : 29.5031 / 71.2167 | Jalalpur Pirwala is a city and the capital of Jalalpur Pirwala Tehsil, Multan District, Pakistan. This city is about 90 km away towards south from Multan city. Jalalpur Pirwala is a historical city. It had a population was about 500,000 plus in the 2017 census (...) | |
| 31 | Shaikh Zayed Hospital ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 214 Lat/Lng : 31.5082 / 74.3085 | Shaikh Zayed Hospital, Lahore is a tertiary care Hospital located in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. It is attached with Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan Medical and Dental College as a teaching hospital and is part of Shaikh Zayed Medical Complex Lahore. (...) | |
| 32 | Expo 2010 pavilions ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 0 Lat/Lng : 31.1941 / 121.4864 | This article contains the details of the pavilions in Expo 2010. The 2010 World Expo Shanghai is the largest Expo site ever, covering more than 5.2 square kilometers and containing more than 70 exposition pavilions (...) | |
| 33 | Dajal, Rajanpur ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 127 Lat/Lng : 29.5594 / 70.3758 | Dajal is a small town in Tehsil Jampur Distt.Rajan Pur of Punjab, Pakistan. It is on the border of Balochistan province. It is located at 29°33′34″N 70°22′33"E, and its population is around 50,000. A few people are working in Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates (...) | |
| 34 | Ghuinke ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 241 Lat/Lng : 32.4244 / 74.4603 | Ghuinke (Punjabi and) is a large Town in the Punjab province of Pakistan. The village is located at 32°25′28″N 74°27′37″E and is nearly 15 km away from Daska. This village belongs to Tehsil Daska and District Sialkot. (...) | |