Gwadar District is a coastal district in Balochistan province of Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

. Gwadar

Gwadar

Gwadar also known as Godar is a developing port city on the southwestern Arabian Sea coast of Pakistan. It is the district headquarters of Gwadar District in Balochistan province and has a population of approximately 50,000.Gwadar is strategically located at the apex of the Arabian Sea and at the...

 city is the district headquarters of Gwadar District.

Administration

Gwadar District is subdivided into the following tehsils or subdistricts:

• Gwadar
  Gwadar
  Gwadar also known as Godar is a developing port city on the southwestern Arabian Sea coast of Pakistan. It is the district headquarters of Gwadar District in Balochistan province and has a population of approximately 50,000.Gwadar is strategically located at the apex of the Arabian Sea and at the...
  
  
• Jiwani
  Jiwani
  Jiwani or Jwani is a town and commercial port that is located along the Gulf of Oman in the Gwadar District of the Balochistan province in Pakistan. It is located near the Pakistani border with Iran...
  
  
• Ormara
  Ormara
  Ormara is a port city located in the Makran or coastal region of Balochistan Province in Pakistan. It is located 360 km west of Karachi and 230 km east of Gwadar on the Arabian Sea. This port is also mentioned in Periplus of the Erythraean Sea as Oraea.- History :Ormara is an old...
  
  
• Pasni
  Pasni Tehsil
  Pasni Tehsil is a subdivision of Gwadar District in the Balochistan province of Pakistan. It is administratively subdivided into four Union Councils, two of which form the tehsil capital Pasni....
  
  
• Suntsar

Geography and topography

Gwadar District has a 600 km-long coastline along the Arabian Sea

Arabian Sea

The Arabian Sea is a region of the Indian Ocean bounded on the east by India, on the north by Pakistan and Iran, on the west by the Arabian Peninsula, on the south, approximately, by a line between Cape Guardafui in northeastern Somalia and Kanyakumari in India...

. It consists mostly of barren land and hills, with the exception of the Dasht River

Dasht River

Dasht River is located in Gwadar District, Balochistan, Pakistan.Mirani Dam is located on Dasht River to irrigate the surrounding areas and to provide drinking water to Gwadar....

, which passes through Gwadar District on its way to the Arabian Sea from Mirani Dam

Mirani Dam

Mirani Dam is a medium-size multi-purpose concrete-faced rock-filled dam located on the Dasht River south of the Central Makran Range in Kech District in Balochistan province of Pakistan. Its . reservoir is fed by the Kech River and the Nihing River....

 in Kech District

Kech District

Kech or Turbat district is a district in Balochistan province of Pakistan.-Administration:The district of Kech is administratively subdivided into the following tehsils:* Buleda* Dasht* Turbat* Tump-Population:...

 north of Gwadar District.

Demography

According to the 1998 census, the population of Gwadar District was 178,989 of whom 93% were Muslim

Muslim

A Muslim, also spelled Moslem, is an adherent of Islam, a monotheistic, Abrahamic religion based on the Quran, which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God as revealed to prophet Muhammad. "Muslim" is the Arabic term for "submitter" .Muslims believe that God is one and incomparable...

 with a small minority of Hindus. The population was estimated to be over 250,000 in 2005. The major Baloch

Baloch people

The Baloch or Baluch are an ethnic group that belong to the larger Iranian peoples. Baluch people mainly inhabit the Balochistan region and Sistan and Baluchestan Province in the southeast corner of the Iranian plateau in Western Asia....

tribes of the district are Kalmati, Raees, Zeno Zai, Poz Hoth and Shehzada.