Map of Pakistan

Pakistan is located in Asia. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 30.0° N, 70.0° E. It shares land borders with 4 countries — Afghanistan, China, India and Iran — and also has its own coastline. Within Asia, a continent of 49 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Pakistan is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Pakistan shares land frontiers with the following 4 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Pakistan covers about 796,095 km² (307,374 sq mi). That makes it the 35th-largest country in the world by area and the 8th-largest in Asia, larger by area than 41 of the continent’s 49 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 241,499,431, the 5th-largest in the world and the 4th-largest in Asia, accounting for about 5.1% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Pakistan has an average population density of about 303 people per km². Among the 49 countries of Asia it stands 4th by population and 8th by area.

The seat of government is Islamabad, and the official currency is the Pakistani rupee (PKR, ₨), and the main official languages are English and Urdu. Traffic drives on the left, and the country observes the time zone UTC+05:00.

Pakistan carries the ISO country codes PK and PAK, dials on the international calling code +92 and uses the .pk internet domain.

Pakistan shares its land borders with 4 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are India (capital New Delhi, about 1,417,492,000 people), China (capital Beijing, about 1,408,280,000 people), Iran (capital Tehran, about 85,961,000 people) and Afghanistan (capital Kabul, about 43,844,000 people).

By area, Pakistan is larger than 1 of these neighbours and smaller than 3 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 30.0° N, 70.0° E and opens at zoom level 5, framing Pakistan within Asia. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Islamabad. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Pakistan lies about 3,330 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Pakistan keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+05:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +05:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Pakistani rupee (PKR, ₨).

The official languages are English and Urdu, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the left-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +92 and websites commonly use the .pk internet domain.

In short, Pakistan is a coastal country in Asia, sharing land borders with 4 countries. Its capital is Islamabad. Pakistan has a population of about 241,499,431 and covers around 796,095 km² (307,374 sq mi), ranking it 5th in the world by population and 35th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Pakistan.

The flag of Pakistan is composed of a white vertical band on its hoist side that takes up about one-fourth the width of the field and a dark green rectangular area that spans the rest of the field. A white fly-side facing crescent and five-pointed star are centered in the dark green area.

The flag of Pakistan is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.