Gorikot is the largest valley in the Astore District

Astore District

Astore is one of the six districts of the Gilgit Baltistan. The district contains the Astore Valley and is bounded to the west by Diamer District , to the north by Gilgit District, to the east by Skardu District and to the south by Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Neelum District of Azad Kashmir...

 of Northern Areas 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...

, now home to most district government offices. The local name for the town is Gué. The following are the small villages associated with Gorikot Valley:

• Gaiynrike
• Dingott
• Domosur
• Kutaan
• Shring-Darr
• Sargale
• Ahmadabad
• Hilbeche
• Pakoroye
• Daryaal

Gorikot lies on the historic junction where roads link to Rattu axis and Tarisheng Base camp-Nanga Perbat and other axis leads to Gudai - Chilum & Deosai Plains linking Astore to Skardu.