Gilgit-Baltistan

**Gilgit Baltistan** (), previously known as the Northern Areas, is the northern-most autonomous territory of Pakistan. In terms of land area it is bigger than Sierra Leone but smaller than Panama. It was part of the former Princely state of Kashmir and Jammu in 1800s and later leased to British eventually liberated after a planned liberation movement led by Gilgit Scouts.

It borders Azad Jammu and Kashmir in the south, Indian-administered Kashmir in the southeast, where the KPK province of Pakistan to the west, and internationally borders Afghanistan to the north. However, Tajikistan is separated by fourteen kilometers via Wakhan Corridor, the People's Republic of China to the northeast.

## Infobox (settlement)

- **name**: Gilgit-Baltistan
- **native name lang**: ur
- **settlement type**: Administrative units of Pakistan, Semi-autonomous region
- **image map**: File:Kashmir region. LOC 2003626427 - showing sub-regions administered by different countries.jpg
- **map alt**: Map of the disputed Kashmir region showing areas of control by India, Pakistan, and China
- **map caption**: A map of the disputed Kashmir region with the two Pakistan-administered areas shaded in sage-green.
- **map caption1**: Interactive map of Gilgit-Baltistan
- **subdivision type**: Administering country
- **subdivision name**: Pakistan de facto occupied, claimed by India
- **established title**: Established
- **established date**: 1 November 1948
- **seat type**: Capital
- **seat**: Gilgit
- **seat1 type**: Largest city
- **seat1**: Skardu
- **government type**: Administrative territory
- **governing body**: Government of Gilgit-Baltistan
- **leader title**: Governor of Gilgit-Baltistan, Governor
- **leader name**: Syed Mehdi Shah
- **leader title1**: Chief Minister of Gilgit-Baltistan, Chief Minister
- **leader name1**: Gulbar Khan
- **leader title2**: Chief Secretary (Pakistan), Chief Secretary
- **leader name2**: Muhammad Khuram Aga
- **leader title3**: List of legislatures in South Asia#Pakistan, Legislature
- **leader name3**: Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly
- **leader title4**: High courts of Pakistan, High Court
- **leader name4**: Supreme Appellate Court Gilgit-Baltistan
- **unit pref**: Metric
- **area total km2**: 72496
- **population total**: 1,492,924
- **population as of**: 2014
- **population density km2**: auto
- **timezone1**: Pakistan Standard Time, PKT
- **utc offset1**: +05:00
- **iso code**: ISO 3166-2:PK, PK-GB
- **blank name sec1**: Languages
- **blank info sec1**: Balti dialect, Balti, Shina language, Shina, Wakhi language, Wakhi, Burushaski, Khowar, Domaki, Purgi language, Purgi, Changthang language, Changthang, Brokskat, Ladakhi language, Ladakhi, Urdu (administrative)
- **blank name sec2**: Assembly seats
- **blank info sec2**: 33
- **blank1 name sec2**: Divisions of Pakistan, Divisions
- **blank1 info sec2**: 3
- **blank2 name sec2**: List of districts in Gilgit-Baltistan, Districts
- **blank2 info sec2**: 14
- **blank3 name sec2**: List of tehsils of Gilgit-Baltistan, Tehsils
- **blank3 info sec2**: 31
- **blank4 name sec2**: Union council (Pakistan), Union Councils
- **blank4 info sec2**: 113
- **blank5 name sec1**: List of administrative units of Pakistan by Human Development Index, HDI (2019)
- **blank5 info sec1**: 0.592