What are the Administrative Units of Pakistan?
Pakistan is a federation of four provinces (Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and
Balochistan), the Islamabad Capital Territory and two separately administered territories.
- The provinces grew out of the British India provinces that became part of Pakistan in 1947.
- In 1955 the western provinces were merged into one unit, West Pakistan.
- West Pakistan was dissolved in 1970 and the four provinces were restored.
- The Northern Areas were renamed Gilgit-Baltistan in 2009.
- The North-West Frontier Province was renamed Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 2010.
- The Federally Administered Tribal Areas (F.A.T.A.), shown on this quiz's map, joined Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 2018.
Current quiz contains
8 administrative units:
Azad Kashmir, Baluchistan, F.A.T.A., F.C.T., N.W.F.P., Northern Areas, Punjab, Sind.