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Islamabad

A modern planned city that is well-maintained and well-organised, Islamabad is Pakistan's clean, calm, and green capital. Founded in the 1960s, it attracts people from all over Pakistan, and hosts a large number of diplomats, politicians and government employees, making it one of the nation's most cosmopolitan and urbanized cities. Wikivoyage

Population 1,014,825 (Wikidata)

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Before you go

Emergency numbers in Pakistan

Visas and entry What your passport needs for Pakistan

Getting there

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Best-documented sights

All of them in the guide

Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.

Markets

  • WholeSale Market

    No hours mapped

    1.2 km from the centre

  • Libra market

    No hours mapped

    1.3 km from the centre

  • Raftar Goods Forwarding Agency

    No hours mapped

    1.4 km from the centre

  • Sitara Market

    No hours mapped

    1.4 km from the centre

  • Gool Market

    No hours mapped

    1.6 km from the centre

  • Sunday Market

    اتوار بازار

    No hours mapped

    2.3 km from the centre

  • Faisal Market

    No hours mapped

    2.6 km from the centre

  • Irum Market

    No hours mapped

    2.8 km from the centre

Markets mapped on OpenStreetMap, with their hours where someone has added them. Check locally before you go.

Somewhere to run

Getting around

Train stations: Margalla Railway Station 3.8 km

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