The land of the most beautiful valleys, rivers, pastures, streams, mountains, glaciers, plains and the world's only cold desert_ Gilgit Baltistan_ is located in the north of Pakistan. It covers the area of 72,971 square kilometers and bordered by China in the north, Indian_ occupied Kashmir in the south, Afghanistan in the west and KPK of Pakistan in the southwest. GB has the population of about 1.6 million according to the 2023 census of Pakistan.
