--- title: "North Karachi – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "North Karachi, Pakistan: New Karachi or North Karachi is a town in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. Nearby: University of Karachi, National Museum of Pakistan…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/north-karachi" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/north-karachi.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/North_Karachi_Power_House_Chorangi_-_panoramio.jpg/3840px-North_Karachi_Power_House_Chorangi_-_panoramio.jpg" --- Karachi city's administrative subdivision · Pakistan # North Karachi New Karachi or North Karachi is a town in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. ![North Karachi](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/North_Karachi_Power_House_Chorangi_-_panoramio.jpg/3840px-North_Karachi_Power_House_Chorangi_-_panoramio.jpg) North Karachi · Wikimedia Commons The place New Karachi or North Karachi is a town in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. New Karachi is located between the Lyari River, the Manghopir Hills and two major roads - Surjani Road to the north and Shahrah-e-Zahid Hussain to the south. To the north and west lies Gadap Town, and to the south the towns of Gulberg and North Nazimabad. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Karachi), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around North Karachi 10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name. 1. University of Karachi The University of Karachi is a public research university located in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. It was established in June 1951 by an act of Parliament as a successor to the University of Sindh. 8.8 km · public university in Karachi, Pakistan · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Karachi) 2. National Museum of Pakistan The National Museum of Pakistan is a public museum located in Karachi, Pakistan. 9.1 km · art museum and historic site in Karachi, Pakistan · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Museum_of_Pakistan) 3. Aga Khan University Aga Khan University is a private research university based in Karachi, Pakistan. It is a non-profit institution and an agency of the Aga Khan Development Network. 6.1 km · private university in Karachi, Pakistan · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aga_Khan_University) 4. Masjid e Tooba Masjid-e-Tooba also known as Gol Masjid, is a mosque located in the city of Karachi in Sindh province of Pakistan. It is situated near the main Korangi Road in Phase II of the Defence Housing Authority, Karachi. 8.5 km · mosque in Karachi, Pakistan · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masjid-e-Tooba) 5. National Stadium The National Stadium, officially known as the National Bank Stadium, is an international cricket ground in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, owned by the Pakistan Cricket Board. It is the home ground of the Karachi Kings franchise in Pakistan Super League and other domestic cricket teams of Sindh. 6.4 km · cricket stadium in Karachi, Pakistan · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Stadium,_Karachi) 6. Saint Patrick's Cathedral St. Patrick's Cathedral is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Karachi, and is located near the Empress Market in the Saddar locality in central Karachi. 7.9 km · cathedral in Karachi, Pakistan · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Patrick%27s_Cathedral,_Karachi) 7. Priest-King The Priest-King, in Pakistan often King-Priest, is a small male figure sculpted in steatite found during the excavation of the ruined Bronze Age city of Mohenjo-daro in Sindh, now Pakistan, in 1925 or 1926. It is dated to around 2000–1900 BC, in Mohenjo-daro's Late Period, and is "the most famous stone sculpture" of the Indus Valley Civilisation. 9.1 km · stone sculpture found at Mohenjo-daro, Pakistan · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priest-King_(sculpture%29) 8. Pakistan Maritime Museum Pakistan Maritime Museum is a maritime museum and park situated near PNS Karsaz on Habib Ibrahim Rehmatullah Road in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. The main museum building is located inside the park of 11.3 ha. 7.8 km · maritime museum in Karachi, Pakistan · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan_Maritime_Museum) 9. Frere Hall Frere Hall is a building in Karachi, Pakistan that dates from the early British colonial era in Sindh. Completed in 1865, Frere Hall was originally intended to serve as Karachi's town hall, and now serves as an exhibition space and library. 9.5 km · British colonial-era building in Karachi, Pakistan · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frere_Hall) 10. Shri Swaminarayan Mandir The Shri Swami Narayan Mandir, Karachi is a Hindu temple that is the only surviving Swami Narayan temple in Pakistan. The temple is notable for its size and frontage, over 32,306 square yards on the M. A. Jinnah Road in Karachi city. 9.1 km · Hindu temple in Karachi, Pakistan · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shri_Swaminarayan_Mandir,_Karachi) Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## Getting to North Karachi **Airports:** Jinnah (KHI), 13 km\ **Stations:** Karachi City Station, 9.8 km · Karachi Cantonment Railway Station, 9.9 km · Peoples Football Stadium, 9.5 km · Gilani Railway Station, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, 5.3 km\ - Turbat → North Karachi Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/turbat-to-north-karachi) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Turbat&to=North+Karachi) - Gurandani → North Karachi Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/gurandani-to-north-karachi) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Gurandani&to=North+Karachi) - Quetta → North Karachi Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/quetta-to-north-karachi) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Quetta&to=North+Karachi) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=North%20Karachi) Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for North Karachi Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for North Karachi. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get around Most of Karachi's inhabitants rely on public transport to and from their workplace and do ride in a taxi and auto-rickshaw at least once in the city. - Get around If you are not used to Pakistani roads, an auto-rickshaw ride can be a heart-stopping, death-defying, laws-of-physics-bending. - Get around Rickshaws are a popular method of travelling in Karachi, they're cheap, flexible and are everywhere in the city at any time of day. - Get around If you need to travel shorter distances, go by rickshaw. - Get around Pregnant ladies are most strongly advised not to travel by auto-rickshaws since the combination of rash driving, poor suspensions, and horrible road conditions have quite often led to serious complications. From [Wikivoyage: Karachi](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Karachi), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Tirthan Valley](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tirthan-valley) IN 8 ways of moving, 29 sources 1,260 km 2. [Chitkul](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/chitkul) IN 7 ways of moving, 20 sources 1,325 km 3. [Kaza](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kaza) IN 7 ways of moving, 20 sources 1,348 km 4. [Gokarna](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gokarna) IN 7 ways of moving, 14 sources 1,383 km 5. [Munsiyari](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/munsiyari) IN 8 ways of moving, 25 sources 1,421 km If you know how people move in North Karachi – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cnorth-karachi&title=North+Karachi&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fnorth-karachi), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to North Karachi North Karachi is 8 km from [Karachi](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/karachi), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture. - [Nazimabad District](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/nazimabad-district) administrative district of Karachi Division in Sindh, Pakistan 500 m - [Karachi South District](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/karachi-south-district) administrative district of Karachi Division in Sindh, Pakistan 8.1 km - [Karachi West District](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/karachi-west-district) district in Sindh, Pakistan 8.1 km - [Orangi Town](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/orangi-town) human settlement in Pakistan 7 km - [Lyari Town](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lyari-town) administrative borough of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan; disbanded in 2011 and re-instated in 2015 8 km - [Saddar Town](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/saddar-town) human settlement in Pakistan 9 km [The place page for North Karachi](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/north-karachi) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Pakistan](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-PK) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/north-karachi, for search crawlers and AI assistants. 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