• Location: Southern Asia, bordering the Arabian Sea, between India on the east and Iran and Afghanistan on the west and China in the north
• Geographic coordinates: 30 00 N, 70 00 E
• Map references: Asia
• Area:
  
  Total: 803,940 sq km
  
  Land: 778,720 sq km
  
  Water: 25,220 sq km
• Area - comparative: slightly less than twice the size of California
• Land boundaries:
  
  Total: 6,774 km
  
  Border countries: Afghanistan 2,430 km, China 523 km, India 2,912 km, Iran 909 km
• Coastline: 1,046 km
• Maritime claims:
  
  Contiguous zone: 24 nm
  
  Continental shelf: 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin
  
  Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
  
  Territorial sea: 12 nm
• Climate: mostly hot, dry desert; temperate in northwest; arctic in north
• Terrain: flat Indus plain in east; mountains in north and northwest; Balochistan plateau in west
• Elevation extremes:
  
  Lowest point: Indian Ocean 0 m
  
  Highest point: K2 (Mt. Godwin-Austen) 8,611 m
• Natural resources: land, extensive natural gas reserves, limited petroleum, poor quality coal, iron ore, copper, salt, limestone