Kin, Pakistan

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Coordinates: 28°37′55″N69°53′18″E / 28.63194°N 69.88833°E / 28.63194; 69.88833 Coordinates: 28°37′55″N69°53′18″E / 28.63194°N 69.88833°E / 28.63194; 69.88833
Country Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan
Province Punjab
District Rajanpur
Time zone PST (UTC+5)

Kin [1] is a village in Rajanpur District, Punjab, of central Pakistan. It is located on the western side (right bank) of the Indus River at the edge of the flood plain. Kin is in the Mazāri tribal area and under the jurisdiction of the Shaikhwāli Police Post. It is about halfway between Rajanpur to the northeast, and Kashmore to the southwest just off of the Indus Highway (N55).

Rajanpur District District in Punjab, Pakistan

Rajanpur District, is a district of Punjab province in Pakistan. According to the 1998 census of Pakistan it had a population of 1,103,618 of which 14.27% were urban. Its administrative centre is Rajanpur.

Punjab, Pakistan Province in Pakistan

Punjab is Pakistan's second largest province by area, after Balochistan, and it is the most populated province, with an estimated population of 110,012,442 as of 2017. Forming the bulk of the transnational Punjab region, it is bordered by the Pakistan provinces of Sindh, Balochistan, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the enclave of Islamabad, and Azad Kashmir. It also shares borders with the Indian states of Punjab, Rajasthan and Jammu and Kashmir. The provincial capital of Punjab is the city Lahore, a cultural, historical, economic and cosmopolitan centre of Pakistan where the country's cinema industry, and much of its fashion industry, are based.

Pakistan federal parliamentary constitutional republic in South Asia

Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the world’s sixth-most populous country with a population exceeding 212,742,631 people. In area, it is the 33rd-largest country, spanning 881,913 square kilometres. Pakistan has a 1,046-kilometre (650-mile) coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by India to the east, Afghanistan to the west, Iran to the southwest, and China in the far northeast. It is separated narrowly from Tajikistan by Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor in the northwest, and also shares a maritime border with Oman.

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