Sindh
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Sindh (Sindhi: سنڌ) (Urdu: صوبہ سندھ) is a province in Pakistan. The provincial capital of Sindh is Karachi. Sindh has a population of 47.9 million people and an area of 54,407 mi² or (140,914 km²). The provincial region of Sindh is larger than Greece but smaller than Tajikistan,
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Etymology
The province of Sindh and the people inhabiting the region are named after the river known as the Sindhu River and now called the Indus River.
The Greeks who conquered Sindh in 325 BC under Alexander the Great called it Indós, hence the modern Indus. A study said, the Ancient Gypsy hail from Sindh from the Rohri Taluka in the Sukkur District[7]
History
Sindh (Sindhi: سنڌ) is one of the provinces of Pakistan. Sindh was home to one of the world's oldest civilizations, the Indus Valley Civilization which is 5,500 years old[8] 'Hind' word is also derived from the words 'Sindh' and while its worth noting that Hind was known because of Sind by the early Persian and Arabs [9]'. On the 26th of June in 1947 Sindh joined Pakistan by a majority vote of members of the 1947 provincial legislature.
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