Pakistan--country profile of cancer and cancer control 1995-2004.

Abstract

Pakistan is an Islamic Republic in Southern Asia bordering the Arabian Sea (30 00 N 70 00 E). It is situated between India on the east Iran and Afghanistan on the west and China in the north. The total area of Pakistan is 803940 sq km 778720 sq km of land and 25220 sq km of water. Largely an agricultural country the arable land constitutes 27.87% of the total land area. The climate is mostly hot dry desert becomes temperate in northwest and arctic in the north. The terrain is flat Indus plain in the east; mountains in north and northwest; and the Baluchistan plateau in the west. The administrative divisions of the country are 4 provinces (Sindh Punjab Baluchistan and North-West Frontier Province) a territory (Federally Administered Tribal Area) 1 capital territory (Islamabad) and the Pakistani administered portion of the disputed Jammu and Kashmir region (Azad Kashmir and the Northern Areas). (excerpt)