Pakistan stretches from the Arabian Sea to the high mountains of central Asia and covers an area of 803,944 square kilometers. The distance from southwest to northeast is 1800 kilometers and the southern west to east, Pakistan is bordered by Iran, Afghanistan, China and India.
The country is divided into four provinces: Sindh, Baluchistan, Punjab and the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP).
Geographically Pakistan falls into three main regions: the mountainous north where the Hindu Kush, Karakorams and Himalayan ranges meet; the vast but sparsely populated plateau of Baluchistan; and the Punjab and Sindh plains of the Indus River and its five mountains tributaries. The Indus plains apart, Pakistan is mostly mountainous desserts and arid plateau.
