Pakistan's administrative units are as follows:
| Abbreviation | Administrative unit | Local name | Capital | Population (2012)[3] |
Area (km²)[4] |
Density (per km²) |
Map |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AJK | Azad Jammu & Kashmir | آزاد کشمیر | Muzaffarabad | 2,972,501 | 13,297 | 223.55 |  |
| BL | Balochistan | بلوچستان | Quetta | 13,162,222 | 347,190 | 37.91 |  |
| FATA | Federally Administered Tribal Areas | وفاقی قبائلی علاقہ جات | Peshawar | 3,930,419 | 27,220 | 144.39 |  |
| GB | Gilgit-Baltistan | گلگت بلتستان | Gilgit | 1,441,523 | 72,971 | 19.75 |  |
| ICT | Islamabad Capital Territory | وفاقی دارالحکومت | Islamabad | 1,151,868 | 906 | 1,271.38 |  |
| KP | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | خیبرپختونخوا | Peshawar | 26,896,829 | 74,521 | 360.93 |  |
| PJ | Punjab | پنجاب | Lahore | 91,379,615 | 205,344 | 445.01 |  |
| SN | Sindh | سنڌ or سندھ | Karachi | 55,245,497 | 140,914 | 392.05 |  |
| Pakistan | پاکستان | Islamabad | 197,361,691 | 882,363 | 223.79 |
