Ormara is an old coastal town located in Gwadar District in Balochistan province of Pakistan. It is located in the Makran coastal region around 360 kilometres (220 mi) west of Karachi and 230 kilometres (140 mi) east of Gwadar on the Arabian Sea.

Ormara port is also mentioned in Periplus of the Erythraean Sea as Oraea.

Its historical routes are linked with Alexander the Great, who stayed there with his army for a few days on his way back from the Indus region after conquering the lands of Sindh, Punjab and the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa regions of modern-day Pakistan in 400 BC.

One of his generals, Ormoz, died there, and the present-day city was named after him. City has beautiful beaches to offer.

For a few centuries, Ormara remained a battle field between the Baloch Sardar FAYYAZ BALOCH (local feudal) and foreign aggressors.

Before independence, it was part of the state of Las Bela and afterward it became part of Makran Division.

The population of Ormara was estimated to be over 20,000 in the 1998 Census.

Most of the population is of Baloch and 99.9 percent of them are Muslims and divide in Sunni Muslims (50%) and Mahdavia Zikri Muslim (50%).

They belong Sanghur, Sajdi, Bezinjo, Rind and Koh Baloch tribes.