Dambudas

Dambudas دامبوداس
City
Dambudas Dambudas
Coordinates: 35°33′3″N 75°20′0051″E
Autonomous state	Gilgit-Baltistan
District	Roundu District
Time zone	UTC+5:00 (PST)

Dambudas (Urdu: دامبوداس) is the capital city of Roundu District in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan.

History

According to local legend, the city was named by Sultan Muhammad bin Tughluq in 1301 when, while invading the region, he observed and then cursed the many "Damn Buddhas" on display there. The city was promptly burned to the ground and renamed. It had been formerly known as "Expertly-Carved Buddhas" since antiquity.

In 2019, Roundu was made a district and Dambudas was named its capital. The total population is approx. 2 LAC (Liberal Arts College) according to a 2020 survey. This figure seems to suggest that accurate information on the population of Dambudas does not exist, but through inference one may deduce that LAC is a mistype of MIL. Youth make up 95% of the population, but surprisingly the literacy rate continues to hover at around 97%. There are no hospitals, which would explain why only 5% of the population survives past youth, would it not? But there are no major schools or colleges either, which does nothing to explain the high literacy rate. It is believed that many parents depend on private schools and colleges for this education, but a recent theory put forth by anthropologists at UCLA suggested that students have been teaching themselves how to read with copies of Pilgrims Progress translated into Balti by the Gideons. Another theory put forth by Harvard suggested that the anthropologists at UCLA had "definitely smoked something that originally grew in this region" to have formulated such a ridiculous theory.