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leh.nic.in. Leh (/ ˈleɪ /) [2] is a city in Indian-administered Ladakh in the disputed Kashmir region. [3] It is the largest city and the joint capital of Ladakh. [4] Leh, located in the Leh district, was also the historical capital of the Kingdom of Ladakh.
LA [ 9 ] Website. ladakh.nic.in. Ladakh (/ ləˈdɑːk /) [ 10 ] is a region administered by India as a union territory [ 1 ] and constitutes an eastern portion of the larger Kashmir region that has been the subject of a dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947 and India and China since 1959. [ 2 ]
List of districts of Ladakh. District map (lighter blue indicates claimed but not controlled territories). The Indian union territory of Ladakh consists of seven districts. Each district elects an autonomous district council. Until 31 October 2019, the districts of Kargil and Leh were part of the former state of Jammu and Kashmir.
Leh district is a district in Indian -administered Ladakh in the disputed Kashmir -region. [ 1 ] Ladakh is an Indian-administered union territory. With an area of 45,110 km2, it is the second largest district in the country, second only to Kutch. It is bounded on the north by Gilgit-Baltistan 's Kharmang and Ghanche districts and Xinjiang 's ...
Ladakh: IN-LA LA Northern: Leh (Summer) Kargil (Winter) [60] Leh: 31 October 2019 290,492 59,146 ... List of Indian state and union territory name etymologies;
History of Ladakh. A map of the disputed Kashmir region showing the Indian-administered territory of Ladakh. Hemis Monastery in the 1870s. Ladakh has a long history with evidence of human settlement from as back as 9000 b.c. It has been a crossroad of high Asia for thousands of years and has seen many cultures, empires and technologies born in ...
Ladakh landscape Leh Palace, Leh, Ladakh. Tourism is one of the economic contributors to the union territory of Ladakh in Northern India.The union territory is sandwiched between the Karakoram mountain range to the north and the Himalayas to the south, and is situated at a height of 11,400 ft. Ladakh is composed of Leh and Kargil districts.
Hemis National Park is a high-elevation national park in Hemis in Leh district of Ladakh, India.It is approx. 50 km from Leh, the capital of Ladakh.Globally famous for its snow leopards, it is believed to have the highest density of them in any protected area in the world. [1]