Larkana

Larkana is a city in the Sindh province of Pakistan, within Larkana District, with the Indus River flowing to its east and south. With 551,716 inhabitants at the 2023 census it is the fourth most populated city of Sindh after Karachi, Hyderabad and Sukkur. It has a hot desert climate with sweltering summers and mild winters; its highest annual rainfall on record, 988.7 millimetres, fell in 2022 and the lowest, 7.1 millimetres, in 1938. Educational institutions include the Government Pilot School, founded by the British in 1926, and Chandka Medical College, established and inaugurated by former prime minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto on 20 April 1973. The city is overwhelmingly Sindhi-speaking, with about 99.3 percent of residents giving Sindhi as their mother tongue.