Pakistan

Pakistan,

Officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan,

is a country in South Asia. It is the world's fifth-most populous country with a population exceeding 212.2 

million. It is the 33rd-largest country by area, spanning 

881,913 square kilometres (340,509 square miles). 

Pakistan has a 1,046-kilometre (650-mile) coastline 

along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south

 and is bordered by India to the east, Afghanistan to the west, Iran to the southwest, and China to the northeast. 

It is separated narrowly from Tajikistan by Afghanistan's

 Wakhan Corridor in the northwest, and also shares a 

maritime border with Oman.