Capital Territory of Islamabad

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Islamabad Capital Territory
اسلام آباد وفاقی دارالحکومت علاقہ
Capital Territory of Islamabad

Basic data
Capital :	Islamabad
Status:	Capital territory
Area :	906 km²
Residents :	2,006,572 (2017)
Population density :	2215.0 inh / km² (2017)
ISO 3166-2 :	PK-IS
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The capital territory of Islamabad (English Islamabad Capital Territory ; Urduاسلام آباد وفاقی دارالحکومت علاقہ) around the Pakistani capital Islamabad was established in 1970 after the capital was moved from the transition capital Rawalpindi in 1967 to the new planned capital Islamabad.

The territory is bordered to the north by the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and to the south by the province of Punjab , to which the area also belonged before 1970.

population

The mother tongue of 71.7% of the population is Punjabi , 10.1% speak the national language Urdu , and another 9.5% speak Pashtun . 95.5% of the population are Muslim , another 4.1% are Christians .

(According to the 1998 census)

The literacy rate in 2014/15 among the population over 10 years of age was 85% (women: 79%, men: 91%), making it the highest in all of Pakistan.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pakistan Bureau of Statistics | 6th Population and Housing Census. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 15, 2017 ; accessed on November 9, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ^ Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (2016). Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement Survey 2014-15. Government of Pakistan, accessed June 29, 2019 . 

Coordinates: 33 ° 42 ′  N , 73 ° 6 ′  E