Balochistan

This airticle is aboot the Balochistan region. For ither uisses, see Balochistan (disambiguation).

Balochistan or Baluchistan (Balochi: بلوچستان‎‎, lit. Laund o the Baloch) is an arid desert an muntainous region on the Iranian plateau in sooth-wastren Asie, northwast o the Arabian Sea an the naitional hameland o the Baloch fowk. It stretches athort soothwastren Pakistan, sootheastren Iran, an a smaw section o soothwastren Afghanistan. The soothren pairt o Balochistan is Makran.

Major ethnic groups o Pakistan in 1980. The pink colour represents the Baloch ethnic group.

The seicont maist populous linguistic group in the region is the Pashto-speakin Pashtuns. Brahui is spoken bi the Brahui fowk. Panjabi an Sindhi are spoken as first leids in Pakistani Balochistan an aw an bi Hindki in Afghanistan. Urdu is uised as seicont leid in Pakistan. Persie is uised as a seicont leid in Iran an Afghanistan.

Citit wirks

• Tandon, Pankaj (2006). "New light on the Pāratarājas" (PDF). Numismatic Chronicle. 166. JSTOR 42666407.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

Freemit airtins

• Ancient Baluchistan – Exploring the Past Archived 2016-04-19 at the Wayback Machine
• Persia (Iran), Afghanistan and Baluchistan is a map frae 1897 published bi The Century Company
• Afghanistan, Beloochistan, etc. is a map frae 1893 published bi the American Methodist Kirk
• Balochistan Archives- Preserving our Past