Arja, located in Bagh District of Azad Jammu & Kashmir, is a town in Pakistan about 39 mi (or 63 km) north-east of Islamabad, the country's capital city.

It is bounded on the north by Muzaffarabad district, on the east by occupied state of Jammu and Kashmir on the south by Poonch District and on the west by Rawalpindi and Abbottabad

Districts of Pakistan.

Its geographical coordinates are 33° 59' 0" North, 73° 40' 0" East and its original name (with diacritics) is Arja.

The District Bagh, as is reflected from its name (meaning garden), is one of the greenest areas of AJK.

Bagh had been a tehsil of Poonch district till 1987 when it was declared an independent district.

It consists of an area of 1,368 sq. km.

Topographically, the entire Bagh district is mountainous area, generally sloping from northeast to south-west.

The area falls in lesser Himalayas zone. The main range in district is Pir- Panjal.

The working population of Bagh District is engaged in two major sectors i.e. agriculture/forestry and services/public administration.

Climate of the district varies with altitude. The temperature generally remains between 2°c to 40°c.