Pau is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Empordà, in the province of Girona, Catalonia, Spain. It is located in the far northeast of the Iberian Peninsula, within the historic Catalan region of Empordà.
As a municipality, Pau is one of the local administrative units that make up the Alt Empordà comarca, which forms part of the broader Girona province and the autonomous community of Catalonia. The area lies in the coastal and pre-coastal northeast of Spain, near the Mediterranean and the French border.
The town should not be confused with other places bearing the same name, including the city of Pau in southwestern France. Within Catalonia, it is a small municipality whose identity is tied to the Alt Empordà and its surrounding Catalan-speaking territory.