Pakistan (/ˈpækɪstæn/ (About this sound listen) or /pɑːkɪˈstɑːn/ (About this sound listen); Urdu: پاکستان‬‎), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (Urdu: اسلامی جمہوریہ پاکستان‬‎), is a country in South Asia and on junction of West Asia, Central Asia and East Asia. It is the fifth-most populous country with a population exceeding 209,970,000 people.