Pakistan Province Maps: Each Province on Its Own Map, with Capitals and Facts

One country map can only show so much. When you need to study Punjab’s districts, compare Balochistan’s size with Sindh’s, or simply see where each province begins and ends, you want individual Pakistan province maps — each province drawn on its own, with its capital, area and population. This guide maps all four provinces plus the territories, with 2023 census figures for each.

How province locator maps work

A province locator map — like the Punjab map featured here — shows one province highlighted in colour against a muted outline of the whole country. The format is standard in encyclopedias and textbooks because it answers two questions at once: what shape is the province, and where does it sit in Pakistan? Punjab’s unmistakable wedge in the east, Balochistan’s vast southwestern sweep, Sindh’s run to the sea, KP’s long northwestern strip — each province has a shape students learn to recognise on sight.

All provinces: capitals, area, population

The figures below come from the 2023 digital census published by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics:

• Punjab — capital Lahore; area 205,344 sq km; population 127,688,922
• Sindh — capital Karachi; area 140,914 sq km; population 55,696,147
• Khyber Pakhtunkhwa — capital Peshawar; area 101,741 sq km; population 40,856,097
• Balochistan — capital Quetta; area 347,190 sq km; population 14,894,402
• Islamabad Capital Territory — Islamabad; area 906 sq km; population 2,363,863
• Azad Jammu and Kashmir — capital Muzaffarabad; area 13,297 sq km; population 4,333,467
• Gilgit-Baltistan — capital Gilgit; area 72,496 sq km; population 1,709,049

Spotlight: Punjab

Punjab — “the land of five rivers” (Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas, Sutlej) — is Pakistan’s demographic and agricultural core, holding more than half of all Pakistanis on about a quarter of the country’s land. The locator map shows its position: bordered by India to the east, KP to the northwest, Balochistan and Sindh to the south and southwest. Its cities — Lahore, Faisalabad, Rawalpindi, Multan, Gujranwala, Sialkot — include most of Pakistan’s industrial base. For street-level detail on the provincial capital, see our Pakistan city maps guide.

Comparing the provinces

Two contrasts define Pakistan’s internal geography. By area, Balochistan is the giant — 347,190 sq km, about 44% of the country — while Punjab is second at 205,344. By population, the order reverses completely: Punjab’s 127.7 million dwarfs Balochistan’s 14.9 million. That mismatch — vast empty west, crowded fertile east — is the single most important thing a set of province maps teaches, and it explains debates over resources, representation and development that run through Pakistani politics. See all seven units together on our labelled Pakistan map image.

Pakistan province maps: FAQs

How many provinces does Pakistan have?

Four: Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan — plus the Islamabad Capital Territory and the administrative territories of Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan.

Which is the largest province of Pakistan by area?

Balochistan, at 347,190 sq km — roughly 44% of the country — with its capital at Quetta.

Which is the largest province by population?

Punjab, with 127,688,922 people at the 2023 census — more than half of all Pakistanis. Its capital is Lahore.

What are the capitals of all four provinces?

Lahore (Punjab), Karachi (Sindh), Peshawar (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) and Quetta (Balochistan). The national capital, Islamabad, sits in its own federal territory.