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Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited

Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) is Pakistan's largest integrated telecommunications company, providing fixed-line, broadband, and fiber services throughout Pakistan; it acquired Telenor Pakistan in 2025.

Pakistani passport (پاکستانی پاسپورٹ)

The Pakistani passport (پاکستانی پاسپورٹ), or Passport of Pakistan, is the travel document issued to Pakistani citizens by the Directorate General of Immigration & Passports.

Pakri Barwadih Coal Mine

The Pakri Barwadih Coal Mine is an opencast captive coal mine in Hazaribagh district, Jharkhand, India, operated by NTPC, which was allotted the block in October 2004.

Paks nuclear power plant

The Paks nuclear power plant is Hungary's only nuclear power station, with four Soviet-designed VVER-440 reactors on the Danube about 100 km south of Budapest.

Pakyong Airport

Pakyong Airport, also known as Gangtok Airport, is an airport in East Sikkim, India, inaugurated in 2018 as the state's first airport, about 33 km from Gangtok.

PAL

PAL (Phase Alternating Line) is an analog color television encoding system developed by Walter Bruch at Telefunken in West Germany in 1962 to reduce visible phase errors.

PAL Robotics

PAL Robotics is a Spanish service-robotics company founded in Barcelona in 2004 to build Europe's first humanoid robot, now making TALOS, TIAGo, and ARI platforms.

Palace

Palace: a grand residence of a ruler or prelate serving court, ceremony, and government, distinct from a fortified castle. Key examples include the Forbidden City (1406–1420, ~10,000 rooms) and Baroque Versailles, seat of Louis XIV's court from 1682.

Palace Bridge

Palace Bridge, also known as Dvortsoviy Most, is a bascule bridge in Saint Petersburg that crosses the Neva River, linking the Winter Palace with Vasilievsky Island.

Palace of Ajuda

The Palace of Ajuda (Palácio Nacional da Ajuda) is a neoclassical former royal palace in Lisbon, Portugal, begun in 1796 and now a national museum of decorative arts.

Palace of Culture and Science

The Palace of Culture and Science (Pałac Kultury i Nauki) is a Stalinist-era skyscraper in central Warsaw, built 1952–1955 as a gift from the Soviet Union.

Palace of Facets

Palace of Facets (Granovitaya Palata, Грановитая Палата), Moscow Kremlin ceremonial hall built 1487–1491 by Marco Ruffo and Pietro Antonio Solari; 495 sq m one-pillar vaulted throne hall, diamond-rusticated facade, now a Russian presidential representative hall.

Palace of Fine Arts

The Palace of Fine Arts is a rotunda, colonnade, and lagoon in San Francisco, built for the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition and designed by Bernard Maybeck.

Palace of Fontainebleau

The Palace of Fontainebleau (Château de Fontainebleau) is a royal residence at Fontainebleau, France, rebuilt in Renaissance style by François I from 1528 and used by French kings until 1870.

Palace of Placentia

The Palace of Placentia, better known as Greenwich Palace, was a Tudor royal residence at Greenwich in London, the birthplace of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I.

Palace of the Parliament

The Palace of the Parliament (Palatul Parlamentului), also known as Casa Poporului, is the seat of Romania's parliament in Bucharest, built under Ceaușescu from 1984.

Palace of the Parliament, Bucharest

The Palace of the Parliament (Palatul Parlamentului), also known as the People's House, is a monumental building in Bucharest that houses both chambers of Romania's Parliament.

Palace of the Soviets (Дворец Советов)

The Palace of the Soviets (Дворец Советов) was an unbuilt Moscow government building planned from 1931 on the site of the demolished Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.

Palace of Versailles

The Palace of Versailles (Château de Versailles) is a former French royal residence at Versailles, the seat of the French court and government from 1682 to 1789.

Palace of Westminster

The Palace of Westminster, commonly called the Houses of Parliament, is the meeting place of the UK Parliament's two chambers, on the north bank of the Thames in London.

Palace of Whitehall

The Palace of Whitehall, also known as York Place, was the main London residence of English monarchs from 1530 until a 1698 fire destroyed almost all of it.

Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin

Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin (Schlösser und Parks von Potsdam und Berlin), UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1990, criteria (i)(ii)(iv), 2,064 ha: Sanssouci, New Garden, Babelsberg, Glienicke, Peacock Island.

Paladin Energy

Paladin Energy is an independent uranium mining company based in Perth, Australia, best known for owning 75% of the Langer Heinrich Mine in Namibia, restarted in 2024.

Palagua Oil and Gas Field

The Palagua Oil and Gas Field is an oil field in the Middle Magdalena Valley Basin of Colombia near Puerto Boyacá, discovered in 1954 and operated by Ecopetrol.

Palais Bourbon

The Palais Bourbon is a Paris palace on the Left Bank of the Seine, built between 1722 and 1728 and housing the French National Assembly's 577 deputies since 1798.

Palais de Justice de Bruxelles

The Palais de Justice de Bruxelles (Dutch: Justitiepaleis van Brussel) is Brussels' main courthouse, designed by Joseph Poelaert and built between 1866 and 1883 on Gallows Hill overlooking the Marolles.

Palais de Justice de Paris

The Palais de Justice de Paris is the historic law courts complex on the Île de la Cité, built on the site of the medieval royal palace.

Palais des Papes

The Palais des Papes, or Palace of the Popes, is a 14th-century Gothic palace-fortress in Avignon, France, built as the residence of the popes from 1335 to 1352.

Palanca Oil Field

The Palanca Oil Field is an offshore oil field about 37 km off Angola, discovered in 1981 with first oil in 1985 and developed by Elf Aquitaine.

Palantir Foundry

Palantir Foundry, Palantir's data operations platform launched commercially in 2016, integrates enterprise data, logic, and actions through the Palantir Ontology, within the AIP-Foundry-Apollo architecture, serving commercial and government customers.