Pakistan / Geography

Located in South Asia, Pakistan shares an eastern border with India and a north-eastern border with China. Iran makes up the country's south-west border, and Afghanistan runes along its western and northern edge. The Arabian Sea is Pakistan's southern boundary with 1,064 km of coastline.

The country as a total area of 803,940 sq km with a land area of 778,720 sq km and is nearly four times the size of the United Kingdom. From Gwadar Bay in it's south-eastern corner, the country extends more than 1,800 km to the Khunjerab Pass on China's border.

Pakistan is a land of many splendours. The scenery changes northward from coastal beaches, lagoons and mangrove swamps in the south to sandy deserts, desolate plateaus, fertile plains, dissected upland in the middle and high mountains with beautiful valleys, snow-covered peaks and eternal glaciers in the north.

Alangium, famous flower in W Pakistan. Evergreen or deciduous trees and shrubs. Leaves simple, entire or palmately lobed with palmate divergent venation. Flowers white or whitish yellow, with articulated pedicels; bracts linear or subulate, deciduous. Calyx tube often sulcate, somewhat turbinate, adnate to the ovary. Petals erect, convergent and valvate in bud, recurved to revolute in open flowers. Anthers large, linear-oblong with a long connective, basifixed rarely dorsifixed or versatile, dithecous, dehiscence introrse or longitudinal.

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