This section provides an interactive map to visualize the geography and ecology of Gilgit-Baltistan. The mapping section is built upon the Open Street Maps (Operated by the OpenStreetMap Foundation) and Leaflet (Leaflet open-source JavaScript library by Vladimir Agafonkin) with number of base maps, ranging from simple grey canvas to satellite imagery for the region. The base map can be changed from bottom right icon in the map. The overlay layers cover topography, ecoregions, land-cover, temperature, aridity and other physical aspects of Gilgit-Baltistan. For each overlay map you can select different categories individually from the Overlay icon on the top right. Additionally each map section is also supplemented with a statistical table. The table presents numerical/statistical breakup of various categories and aspects for the whole of Gilgit-Baltistan and for each district.

Gilgit-Baltistan bio-climate maps provide visual and statistical overview of the temperature range, temperature and aridity zones for the region. These maps were created by modifying the dataset documented in the publication: A high-resolution bio-climate map of the world: a unifying framework for global biodiversity research and monitoring (Metzger and others. 2012). Study of climate as it affects and is affected by living organisms, is key to understanding the patterns of forests and deserts on the landscape, where productive agricultural lands may be found, and how changes in the climate will affect rare species. Temperature Description is 5 classes based on the number of growing degree days from 1950 to 2000 monthly average, where Hot is 7000 - 9000; Warm is 4500 - 7000; Cool is 2500 - 4500; Cold is 1000 - 2500; and Very Cold is 300 - 1000 days. Aridity Description is based on an index of aridity calculated by dividing precipitation by evapotranspiration, with values Very Wet 1.5 - 70; Wet 1.0 - 1.5; Moist 0.6 - 1.0; Semi-dry 0.3 - 0.6; and Dry 0.1 - 0.3. For annual mean temperature data from WorldClim is used at 1 km-squared spatial resolution with a temporal range of approximately 1950-2000. The WorldClim version 1.4 (release 3) was developed by Robert J. Hijmans, Susan Cameron and Juan Parra, at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, in collaboration with Peter Jones and Andrew Jarvis (CIAT) and Karen Richardson (Rainforest CRC).