Pakistan

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• ⚽️Sialkot is a major international centre for sporting-goods manufacturing, including footballs; Pakistan's industry association traces local football production back to 1918.
• 🏔Home to K2 (Chogori), the second-highest mountain in the world (8,611 m) and considered far deadlier to climb than Everest — its nickname is the 'Savage Mountain'.
• 🎨Trucks here are rolling art galleries — drivers spend thousands of dollars decorating them with paintings, mirror mosaics, calligraphy and chiming bells.
• 🏜The Katpana 'Cold Desert' sits above 2,000 m, where sand dunes meet snow-capped peaks and glaciers.
• 🏙Mohenjo-Daro, one of humanity's oldest cities, had grid-based urban planning and full sewage systems while much of Europe still lived in huts.
• 🏅Has the world's highest paved international road — the Karakoram Highway, climbing to 4,693 m near the Chinese border.