query: country passu glacier
supports: Pakistan (or ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a federal parliamentary republic in South Asia on crossroads of Central Asia and Western Asia. It is the sixth-most populous country with a population exceeding 200 million people. It is the 36th largest country in the world in terms of area with an area covering . Pakistan has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by India to the east, Afghanistan to the west, Iran to the southwest and China in the far northeast respectively. It is separated from Tajikistan by Afghanistan's narrow Wakhan Corridor in the north, and also shares a maritime border with Oman. Batura Glacier, long, is one of the largest and longest glaciers outside the polar regions. It lies in the Gojal region of Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan. It is just north of the massifs of Batura, at , and Passu, at . The glacier flows west to east. The lower portions can be described as a grey sea of rocks and gravelly moraine, bordered by a few summer villages and pastures with herds of sheep, goats, cows and yaks and where roses and juniper trees are common. Gojal, also known as Gojal Valley, is a valley situated in the far north of Pakistan. It borders Pakistan and China at Khunjerab Pass and Afghanistan at Chipurson valley. It is the largest tehsil of the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan. Gilgit-Baltistan, formerly known as the Northern Areas, is the northernmost administrative territory of Pakistan.
  It borders Azad Kashmir to the south, the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to the west, the Wakhan Corridor of Afghanistan to the north, the Xinjiang region of China, to the east and northeast, and the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir to the southeast. Gilgit-Baltistan is part of the region that is disputed by India and Pakistan, along with Azad Kashmir, Aksai Chin, the Shakshagam Valley, and Jammu, Ladakh, and the Valley of Kashmir. Passu Glacier is situated in the south side of Passu village . Passu Peak is situated in the back side of the glacier . This glacier is linked with Batura Glacier and many other glaciers of the region .
candidates: china india pakistan tajikistan world
answer: pakistan