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 "slug": "karachi",
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  "ar": "كراتشي",
  "en": "Karachi",
  "ur": "کراچی"
 },
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  "ar": "أكبر مدن باكستان وميناؤها على بحر العرب؛ كانت أول عاصمة للدولة الفتية، ونشأت من قرية الصيادين كولاتشي حتى صارت العاصمة التجارية للبلاد وموطن المهاجرين الناطقين بالأردية.",
  "en": "Largest city and port of Pakistan on the Arabian Sea; first capital of the new state, it grew from the Kolachi fishing village into the country's commercial capital and home of its Urdu-speaking muhajir population.",
  "ur": "پاکستان کا سب سے بڑا شہر اور بندرگاہ بحیرہ عرب پر؛ نئی ریاست کا پہلا دارالحکومت، ماہی گیر بستی کولاچی سے ابھر کر ملک کا تجارتی مرکز بنا۔"
 },
 "stub": false,
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 ],
 "regions": [
  "south-asia"
 ],
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 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "coordinates": [
  24.8607,
  67.0011
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   24.8607,
   67.0011
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  "coordinate_note": "Coordinates from Wikidata; community-maintained, treated as approximate until checked against a gazetteer.",
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   "wikidata": "Q8660"
  },
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   "source/wikidata",
   "source/geonames-gazetteer"
  ],
  "importance": 2,
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1
  },
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "generated_by": "Devin",
   "run": "person-place-geo-merge",
   "merged_from": [
    "person-place-geo-b",
    "person-place-geo-c"
   ],
   "note": "Semantic merge of duplicate records written by parallel enrichment runs.",
   "source": "Wikidata item Q8660 (labels, coordinates, country), read via the Wikidata API in the person-place geo-enrichment run.; GeoNames gazetteer entry; coordinates the city's gazetteer point"
  }
 },
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 "degree": 92,
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 "updated": "2026-11-10",
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   "to": "person/maulana-nizamul-haq-thanvi",
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