The Baloch or Baluch are an ethnic group that belong to the larger Iranian peoples.

Baluch people mainly inhabit the Baluchestan region and Sistan and Baluchestan Province in the southeast corner of the Iranian plateau in Western Asia.The Baloch people mainly speak Balochi, which is a branch of the Iranian languages, and more specifically of the North-western Iranian languages, that is highly influenced by that of Mesopotamia and shares similarities with Kurdish and other languages of the region.

It also contains archaic features reminiscent of Old Persian and Avestan.

They inhabit mountainous terrains and deserts, and maintain a very distinct cultural identity.

About 60 percent of the Baloch live in Balochistan, a western province in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

Around 25 percent inhabit the eastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan Province in the Islamic Republic of Iran; a significant number of Baloch people also live in Sindh and South Punjab in Pakistan.

Many of the rest live in Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait and in some parts of Africa.

Small communities of Baluch people also live in Europe (particularly Sweden) and in Perth, Australia, where they arrived in the 19th century.