Baluchistan province バローチスタン州

Provincial Capital Quetta
Other Cities Khuzdar, Gawadar, Peshin, Nushki, Sibbi, Dera Gazi Khan.

Although Baluchistan is area-wise the largest province (347,190 sq. km), it is most sparsely populated, with a total of population around 5 million (3.8 per cent of the country¹s total population). It has thus an average density of 12 persons per square kilometer. Located in the west and north-west by Iran and Afghanistan; on the north by the provinces of N. W. F. P. and the Punjab; on the east by the province of Sind and on the south by the Arabian Sea. It has common borders of 832 kilometers with Iran and of 1,160 kilometers with Afghanistan, while it has 560 kilometers of coast commanding 1,440 kilometers of Arabian Sea. It guards the Gulf. It is the western-most part of South Asia. Its geographical situation makes it a strategic area.