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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 km 2 , it is the second largest district in the country, second only to Kutch .
Leh Buddhist Gonpa More images: N-LA-7 Ancient Palace at Leh: Leh: Leh Ancient Palace at Leh More images: N-LA-8 Old Castle (Tsemo Hill) Leh: Leh Old Castle (Tsemo Hill) More images: N-LA-9 Stupa Tiserru Shestang: Leh Stupa Tiserru More images: N-LA-10 Ancient Palace including Shrine: Shey: Leh Ancient Palace including Shrine More images: N-LA ...
Kashmir Division: Kashmir South and Kashmir North ; 13 per cent of the Muzaffarabad district. [5] Ladakh Division: Kargil and Leh districts. (Became the union territory of Ladakh on 31 October 2019.) The districts were reorganised by 1968, breaking up some of the larger districts. [6]
Leh (/ ˈ l eɪ /) [2] is a city in Indian Union Territory of Ladakh in the disputed Kashmir region. [3] It is the capital of Ladakh since the Medieval Period . [ 4 ] Leh, located in the Leh district , was also the historical capital of the Kingdom of Ladakh .
Alchi Monastery (Tibetan: ཨ་ལྕི་ཆོས་འཁོར།) or Alchi Gompa (Tibetan: ཨ་ལྕི་དགོམ་པ།, also Alci) is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery, known more as a monastic complex (chos-'khor) of temples in Alchi village in the Leh District, under the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council of the Ladakh Union Territory.
Khaltsi: The people of Khaltsi, a subdivision of Leh district, have also demanded district status for their region (the western region of Leh district). Aryan valley of Ladakh : The people of Aryan valley of Ladakh are demanding either to grant them a subdivision or a district because to protect their culture which is different as compared to ...
Hanle Monastery is a 17th-century gompa of the Drukpa Lineage of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism located in the Hanle Valley, Leh district, Ladakh, India on an old branch of the ancient Ladakh-Tibet trade route. The valley is home to about a thousand people, with about 300 people living in Hanle village. The monastery is home to about ten ...
Shey Monastery is located in the upper Indus Valley, just 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) east of the modern capital of Ladakh, Leh. The Zanskar range of hills is on its southern side in the fertile Indus River valley. It has an average elevation of 11,204 feet (3,415 m). [11] Shey is located on the road from Leh to Thikse Monastery. Many monasteries ...