Pakistani Studies/Geography  From Wikibooks, open books for an
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climate[edit]  The world's second-highest mountain, K2  Pakistan
covers 499,545 square kilometres (310,403 square miles),
approximately the combined land areas of France and the United
Kingdom, with its eastern regions located on the Indian tectonic
plate and the western and northern regions on the Iranian
plateau and Eurasian landplate. Apart from the 1,046 kilometre
Arabian Sea coastline, Pakistan's land borders total 6,774
kilometres ;2,430 kilometres with Afghanistan to the northwest,
523 kilometres with China to the northeast, 2,912 kilometres
with India to the east and 909 kilometres with Iran to the
southwest.  The different types of natural features range from
the sandy beaches, lagoons, and mangrove swamps of the southern
coast to preserved beautiful moist temperate forests and the icy
peaks of the Himalaya, Karakoram and Hindu Kush mountains in the
north. There are an estimated 108 pe