Gilgit is a populated place in Pakistan. GeoNames lists its administrative area as Gilgit-Baltistan.

Its mapped location is latitude 35.91869° and longitude 74.31245° (WGS84). The recorded IANA time zone is Asia/Karachi. The country record uses the currency code PKR. The source record reports a population of 216,760; this is a recorded figure, not a live population count.

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