Editing Geography of Pakistan (section)

==Area and boundaries==
; Area
:* total: {{convert|882,363|km2|abbr=on}}
:**''country rank in the world:'' 33rd
:* land: {{convert|857,143|km2|abbr=on}}
:* water: {{convert|25,220|km2|abbr=on}}

; Area—comparative
:* Australia comparative: approximately half the size of [[Queensland]]
:* Canada comparative: approximately {{sfrac|1|1|3}} times the size of [[Alberta]]
:* United Kingdom comparative: approximately {{sfrac|3|3|5}} times the size of the United Kingdom
:* United States comparative: approximately four times the size of [[Utah]]
:* [[European Union|EU]] comparative: slightly less than three times the size of [[Italy]]

===International boundaries===
{{Map of Pakistan}}

Pakistan shares its borders with four neighboring countries—[[People's Republic of China]], [[Afghanistan]], [[India]], and [[Iran]]—while [[Tajikistan]] is separated by the narrow [[Wakhan Corridor]]. Additionally, Pakistan shares [[Maritime boundary|maritime boundaries]] with India and Iran and has close maritime proximity with [[Oman]] across the [[Arabian Sea]], which plays a crucial role in its trade and maritime connectivity. In total, Pakistan's land borders span approximately 7,307 km (4,540.4 mi), excluding its coastline along the Arabian Sea.

====Afghanistan–Pakistan border====
The [[Afghanistan–Pakistan border|border with Afghanistan]] which is known as the [[Durand Line]], {{Convert|2640|km|mi|1|abbr=on}}, which runs from the [[Hindu Kush]] and the [[Pamir Mountains]]. A narrow strip of Afghanistan territory called the [[Wakhan Corridor]] extends between Pakistan and [[Tajikistan]].

====China–Pakistan border====
The eastern tip of the [[Wahan Ke Log|Wahan]] Corridor starts the [[China–Pakistan border|Sino-Pak border]] between the [[People's Republic of China]] and Pakistan spanning about {{Convert|559|km|mi|1|abbr=on}}. It carries on south-eastward and ends near the [[Karakoram Pass]]. This line was determined from 1961 to 1965 in a series of agreements between China and Pakistan and finally on 2 March 1963 both the governments, of [[Karachi]] and [[Beijing]], formally agreed. It is understood that if the dispute over Kashmir is resolved, the border would need to be discussed again.<ref name="CITEREFPakistanGeography">{{cite web
|url=http://countrystudies.us/pakistan/23.htm
|title=Pakistan: Geography
|publisher=US Country Studies
|access-date=2008-05-05}}</ref>

====India–Pakistan border====
The [[Northern Areas]] has five of the world's seventeen highest [[mountain|peaks]] along with highest range of mountains the [[Karakoram]] and [[Himalayas]]. It also has such extensive [[glacier]]s that it has sometimes been called the "[[Siachen Glacier|Third Pole]]". The [[India–Pakistan border|international border-line]] has been a matter of pivotal dispute between Pakistan and India ever since 1947, and the Siachen Glacier in northern Kashmir has been an important arena for fighting between the two sides since 1984, although far more soldiers have died of exposure to the cold than from any skirmishes in the conflict between their National Armies facing each other.

The Pakistan–India [[ceasefire]] [[border|line]] runs from the Karakoram Pass west-southwest to a point about 130 kilometres northwest of Lahore. This line, about 740 kilometres long, was arranged with [[United Nations]] (UNO) assistance at the end of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947–48. The ceasefire line came into effect on 1 January 1949, after eighteen months of fighting between Indian forces and Pakistani forces and was last adjusted and agreed upon by the two countries according to the [[Shimla Agreement]] of 2 July 1972 between [[Indira Gandhi]] and [[Zulfikar Ali Bhutto]]. Since then, it has been generally known as the Line of Control or the (LoC).

The India–Pakistan border continues irregularly southward for about 1,280 kilometers, following the [[Radcliffe line]], named for Sir [[Cyril Radcliffe, 1st Viscount Radcliffe|Cyril Radcliffe]], the head of the British Boundary Commission on the division of the [[Punjab Province (British India)|Punjab]] and [[Bengal]] provinces of [[British India]] on 13 August 1947.

The southern borders are far less contentious than those in northern Pakistan (Kashmir). The Thar Desert in the province of [[Sindh]] is separated in the south from the salt flats of the Rann of Kachchh (Kutch) by a boundary that was first delineated in 1923–1924. After independence and dissolution of Empire, Independent and free Pakistan contested the southern boundary of Sindh, and a succession of border incidents resulted. They were less dangerous and less widespread, however, than the conflict that erupted in Kashmir in the Indo-Pakistani War of August 1965, which started with this decisive core of issues. These southern hostilities were ended by British mediation during Harold Wilson's era, and both sides accepted the award of the Indo-Pakistan Western Boundary Case Tribunal designated by the UN secretary general himself. The tribunal made its award on 19 February 1968; delimiting a line of 403 kilometres that was later demarcated by joint survey teams, of its original claim of some 9,100 square kilometres, Pakistan was awarded only about 780 square kilometers. Beyond the western terminus of the tribunal's award, the final stretch of Pakistan's border with India is about 80 kilometres long, running east and southeast of Sindh to an inlet of the [[Arabian Sea|Indian Ocean]]. The village of [[Punjwarian]] is one of the villages close to the border of Indo-Pakistan.

====Iran–Pakistan border====
The [[Iran–Pakistan border|boundary with Iran]], {{convert|959|km|mi|1|abbr=on}}, was first delimited by a British commission in the same year as the Durand Line was demarcated, separating [[Iran]] from what was then British India's [[Baluchistan (Chief Commissioners Province)|Baluchistan]] province.<ref name="CITEREFPakistanGeography"/> Modern Iran has a province named [[Sistan va Baluchistan]] that borders Pakistan and has [[Baloch people|Baluchis]] in an ethnic majority. In 1957 Pakistan signed a frontier agreement with Iran in [[Rawalpindi]] according to which the border was officially declared and the two countries have not had this border as a subject of serious dispute at all.
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=== Maritime border ===
; Contiguous zone
: {{Convert|12|nmi}}
; Continental shelf
: {{Convert|350<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8aCGEh0gds|title = Extension of Continental Shelf Pakistan|website = [[YouTube]]}}</ref>|nmi}}, or to the edge of the [[continental margin]]
; [[Exclusive Economic Zone]]
: {{Convert|290,000|km2|mi2|abbr=on}}
; Territorial sea
: {{Convert|12|nmi}}

{{Borders of Pakistan}}