Korangi (Sindhi: ڪورنگي Urdu: کورنگي )is a town in the Karachi district of Pakistan. It attained the status of a town following a local government reorganisation in 2000. The town houses mix population of Sindhi, Urdu speaking Muhajir, Pashtun and Baloch. A large number of the illegal migrants of Bihari, Bengali and Burmese origin also inhabit the town.
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“The city is recruited from the country. In the year 1805, it is said, every legitimate monarch in Europe was imbecile. The city would have died out, rotted, and exploded, long ago, but that it was reinforced from the fields. It is only country which came to town day before yesterday, that is city and court today.”
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