Metroji clue #47

Islamabad in five emoji

Pakistan

Built in the 1960s on a grid of numbered sectors, which makes it easy to navigate and hard to love. Rawalpindi next door is the older and messier half of the pair.

What each emoji refers to

The Faisal Mosque is shaped like a tent rather than a dome, and was paid for by Saudi Arabia.
The Margalla Hills close off the north of the city, with leopards still occasionally recorded in them.
Pakistani mangoes are a diplomatic gift as much as a crop. The Chaunsa and Anwar Ratol have their partisans.
Trees went in with the street plan, which is why it is greener than any other city in the country.
Cricket is the national obsession, and the 1992 World Cup win is still the reference point.

Islamabad at a glance

Country
Pakistan
Coordinates
33.68Β° N, 73.05Β° E
First played

Nearest cities in the game

Distances are great-circle, the same measure the game reports after a wrong guess. The arrow is the direction you would need to travel from Islamabad.

City Distance Direction
LahorePakistan 270 km
KabulAfghanistan 370 km
DushanbeTajikistan 660 km
New DelhiIndia 690 km
TashkentUzbekistan 910 km
BishkekKyrgyzstan 1,030 km

Today's city is a different one

Metroji picks a new city every day at midnight, wherever you are. Everyone gets the same one, so scores are comparable.

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