Islamabad

Pakistan

Islamabad is the capital city of Pakistan. It is the country's tenth-most populous city with a population of over 1.1 million and is federally administered by the Pakistani government as part of the Islamabad Capital Territory — with a metropolitan population of over 2.3 million. Built as a planned city along the Margalla Hills in the 1960s and established in 1967, Islamabad replaced Karachi as Pakistan's national capital.

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Country: Pakistan
Population: 780,000
Latitude: 33.7° N
Longitude: 73.16° E

Which way is Islamabad from…

From Paris, Islamabad lies at 79° to the east, 5,926 km as the crow flies.

Paris	79° east	5,926 km
London	79° east	6,041 km
New York	27° north-east	11,083 km
Madrid	70° east	6,645 km
Rome	79° east	5,296 km
Montreal	27° north-east	10,593 km
Saint-Denis, Réunion	18° north	6,353 km

Bearings as the crow flies (great circle), measured from north. From somewhere else, the bearing changes: that’s the whole game.

Oùcécap’s take

Rabat, Beirut, Baghdad: three capitals on Islamabad’s latitude, each within half a degree. From London, a flat map would aim at 108°, south of east; the compass says 79°, north of east, for 6,041 km. From New York, the gap reaches 66°: 27°, north-east, over Greenland and Russia, against 93° on the map. To place Pakistan’s capital, remember it lies 378 km east of Kabul.