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    The Geography of Pakistan (Urdu: جغرافیۂ پاکِستان) encompasses a wide variety of landscapes varying from plains to deserts, forests, and plateaus ranging...
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    correctly. Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the fifth-most populous country, with a population of over...
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    covering most of Earth Plate tectonics – Movement of Earth's lithosphere List of tectonic plate interactions – Types of plate boundaries Supercontinent –...
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  • fault, but only major fault zones.[clarification needed] Lists of earthquakes Tectonics Yeats, R. (2012), Active Faults of the World, Cambridge University...
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    it spans major landmasses from the countries of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The neighboring geographical...
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    Transform fault (category Plate tectonics)
    further supports the theory of plate tectonics. Active transform faults are between two tectonic structures or faults. Fracture zones represent the previously...
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    the adjacent zones. From south to north, the zones and the major faults separating them are the Main Frontal Thrust (MFT), Subhimalaya Zone (also called...
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    legally defined the concept of EEZ in the "Territorial Waters, Continental Shelf, Exclusive Economic Zone and Other Maritime Zones Act, 1976". In June 1997...
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    Main Frontal Thrust (category Tectonics)
    (1999). "Uplift and convergence along the Himalayan Frontal Thrust of India". Tectonics. 18 (6): 967–976. Bibcode:1999Tecto..18..967W. doi:10.1029/1999TC900026...
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    collision tectonics. The Himalayan arc extends about 2,400 km (1,500 mi) from Nanga Parbat (8,138 m (26,699 ft)) by the Indus River in northern Pakistan eastward...
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    Makran Trench (category Tectonics stubs)
    expression of a subduction zone along the northeastern margin of the Gulf of Oman adjacent to the southwestern coast of Balochistan of Pakistan and the southeastern...
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    The wildlife of Pakistan comprises a diverse flora and fauna in a wide range of habitats from sea level to high elevation areas in the mountains, including...
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    Northern Pakistan (Urdu: شمالی پاکستان ALA-LC: śimālī Pākistān) is a tourism region in northern and north-western parts of Pakistan, comprising the administrative...
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    capital city of the Pakistani province of Sindh. It is the largest city in Pakistan and the 12th largest in the world, with a population of over 20 million...
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    at 08:50:39 Pakistan Standard Time on 8 October 2005 in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, a territory under Pakistan. It was centred near the city of Muzaffarabad...
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  • list of faults in Pakistan. The Chaman Fault is a major, active geological fault in Pakistan and Afghanistan that runs for over 850 km.Tectonically, it...
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    Main Himalayan Thrust (category Tectonics)
    Alessandro M. Michetti; Paul W. Burton (2009). "The Muzaffarabad, Pakistan, earthquake of 8 October 2005: surface faulting, environmental effects and macroseismic...
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    Pakistan's native flora reflects its varied climatic zones, which range from arid and semi-arid to temperate and tropical. For further details of habitats...
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    Pakistan occur often and are destructive. Pakistan geologically overlaps both the Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates. Balochistan, the Federally Administered...
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    earthquake. India portal Pakistan portal Earth sciences portal Earthquake zones of India List of earthquakes in 2001 List of earthquakes in India ISC-GEM...
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    continental collision zones, such as the Himalayas. Unlike in trenches, in continental collision zones continental crust enters a subduction zone. When buoyant...
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    activity. More active zones are divided into smaller F-E regions whereas less active zones belong to larger F-E regions. Standard reporting of earthquakes includes...
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  • are important from the point of view of science, conservation or natural beauty, are defined as natural heritage. Pakistan ratified the convention on 23...
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    broad climate zones: The northern Indian edge and northern Pakistani uplands have a dry subtropical continental climate The far south of India and southwest...
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    Sutlej (category Rivers of Punjab (Pakistan))
    (/ˈsʌtlədʒ/) is the longest of the five rivers that flow through the historic crossroads region of Punjab in northern India and Pakistan. The Sutlej River is...
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  • associated with north–south trending zones of right lateral strike-slip, such as the Chaman Fault, with an increasing degree of shortening to the north, together...
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    October 2015 Hindu Kush earthquake (category 2015 disasters in Pakistan)
    earthquake active zones in the world. The earthquake was also felt in New Delhi, in both Pakistan's Azad Kashmir territory, and the Indian state of Jammu and...
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  • Chaman Fault (category Plate tectonics)
    active geological fault in Pakistan and Afghanistan that runs for over 850 km. Tectonically, it is actually a system of related geologic faults that...
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    Pakistan's native fauna reflect its varied climatic zones. The northern Pakistan, which includes Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit Baltistan, has portions...
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    Foreland basin (category Tectonics)
    Cenozoic reorganization of the Arabia-Eurasia collision and the comparison of short-term and long-term deformation rates". Tectonics, 23, TC2008, 16 pp. Bethke...
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