
Pakistan's Geography
Pakistan displays some of Asia’s most magnificent landscapes as it stretches from the Arabian Sea, its southern border, to some of the world’s most spectacular mountain ranges in the north. Pakistan is also home to sites that date back to word’s earliest settlements rivaling those of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia.
Located
in South Asia, Pakistan shares an
eastern border with India and a north-eastern
border with China. Iran makes up the
country’s south-west border,
and Afghanistan runes along its western
and northern edge. The Arabian Sea
is Pakistan’s southern boundary
with 1,064 km of coastline.
The country has a total area of 796,095
sq km and is nearly four times the
size of the United Kingdom. From Gwadar
Bay in it’s south-eastern corner,
the country extends more than 1,800
km to the Khunjerab Pass on China’s
border.
Pakistan is a land of many splendors. The scenery changes northward from coastal beaches, lagoons and mangrove swamps in the south to sandy deserts, desolate plateaus, fertile plains, dissected upland in the middle and high mountains with beautiful valleys, snow-covered peaks and eternal glaciers in the north.
The variety of landscape divides Pakistan into six major regions:
the North High Mountainous Region, the Western Low Mountainous Region, the Balochistan Plateau, the Potohar Uplands, the Punjab and the Sindh Plains.