Makran coastal region of Baluchistan, in southeastern Iran and southwestern Pakistan, constituting the Makran Coast, is a 600 mi (1,000 km) stretch along the Gulf of Oman from Raʾs (cape) al-Kūh, Iran (west of Jask), to Lasbela District in Pakistan (near Karachi).

The name is applied to a former province of Iran, and the Makran of Pakistan is sometimes known as Kech Makran to distinguish it from the Iranian portion.

Pakistani Makran, a former princely state that acceded in 1948, was constituted after 1955 a district of Kalāt division.

Now a part of Balochistan Province it is bounded east by Khuzdār and Lasbela districts, south by the Arabian Sea, west by Iran, and north by the Siāhān Range.

Turbat is district headquarters and Panjgūr the chief town of the interior. Aside from the coastal areas, the terrain is mostly mountainous, consisting of east–west parallel ranges rising to about 7,000 ft (2,100 m) and enclosing fertile narrow valleys, including those of the Kech (upper Dasht) and Bolida.

Makran’s 200-mi sandy coastline in Pakistan lies longitudinally with many hammerhead peninsulas.

Past volcanic action is evidenced by occasional volcanoes of boiling mud along the coast. The chief ports are Gwadar (which belonged to the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman till 1958), Ormara and Pasni - all being difficult of approach because of off-shore sandbars.

Fishing is the main coastal occupation. The population is predominantly Arab, the Arabs having held Makran before they conquered Sindh in the 5th century.

Other groups are the Darzadis (regarded of aboriginal descent), Mēds (fishermen) and Koras (seamen).

The coastal blacks are descended from imported slaves. Makran Coastal Highway is over 770 km and is very scenic. Alexander the Great had passed through the coastal belt of Balochistan in 325 BC covering a long trail.