Gilgit-Baltistan

+ Provincial symbols of the Gilgit-Baltistan Animal Wild yak  90px Bird Shaheen falcon 90px Tree Himalayan oak  90px Flower Granny's bonnet 90px Sport Yak polo 90px

Gilgit-Baltistan (Urdu: , Balti: , umwhile kent as the Northren Auries (, )),"Cabinet approves ‘Gilgit-Baltistan Empowerment and Self-Governance Order 2009’" 29 August 2009 Associated Press of Pakistan is the northmaist poleetical entity athin Pakistan. It borders Pakistan's Khyber Pukhtunkhwa province tae the wast, Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor tae the north, Cheenae tae the east an northeast, Azad Kashmir tae the soothwast, an Indie-admeenistered Jammu an Kashmir tae the sootheast. Gilgit-Baltistan covers an aurie o 72,971 km² (28,174 mi²) an is heichlie muntainous. It haes an estimatit population approachin 1,000,000. Its admeenistrative center is the ceety o Gilgit (population 216,760).

References

Further readin
Pakistan Trekking Guide, by Isobel and Ben Shaw, 1993.


External links

 Offeecial Wabsteid o the Govrenment o Gilgit Baltistan 

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