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Website. www.jk.gov.in. Jammu[ b ] and Kashmir[ c ] is a region administered by India as a union territory [ 1 ] and consists of the southern portion of the larger Kashmir region, which has been the subject of a dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947 and between India and China since 1959. [ 3 ]
Azad Jammu and Kashmir (Urdu: آزاد جموں و کشمیر, romanized: Āzād Jammū̃ o Kaśmīr ⓘ, lit. 'Independent Jammu and Kashmir'; abbr. AJK), [6] officially the State of Azad Jammu and Kashmir [a] and colloquially referred to as simply Azad Kashmir (/ ˌ ɑː z æ d k æ ʃ ˈ m ɪər / AH-zad kash-MEER), [7] is a region administered by Pakistan as a nominally self-governing ...
The history of Kashmir is intertwined with the history of the broader Indian subcontinent in South Asia with influences from the surrounding regions of Central, and East Asia. Historically, Kashmir referred to only the Kashmir Valley of the western Himalayas. [1] Today, it denotes a larger area that includes the Indian-administered union ...
India has control of about half the area of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, which comprises Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, while Pakistan controls a third of the region, divided into two provinces, Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan. Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh are administered by India as union territories.
Jammu[a] and Kashmir[b] was a region formerly administered by India as a state from 1952 to 2019, constituting the southern and southeastern portion of the larger Kashmir region, which has been the subject of a dispute between India, Pakistan and China since the mid-20th century. [5][6] The underlying region of this state were parts of the ...
The hilly regions to the south and southwest of the Kashmir Valley formed the Jammu Province of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir. During the declining years of the Mughal Empire , the region comprised 22 hill states that emerged from the Mughal suzerainty.
Jammu and Kashmir: Srinagar (Summer) Jammu (Winter) 1952–2019 Jammu and Kashmir UT and Ladakh UT Kutch State: Bhuj: 1947–1956 Gujarat: Madhya Bharat: Indore (Summer) Gwalior (Winter) 1948–1956 Madhya Pradesh: Madras State: Madras: 1950–1969 Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, and partially Karnataka and Kerala: Mysore State: Bangalore: 1947 ...
Azad Kashmir borders the Pakistani provinces of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to the south and west respectively, Gilgit–Baltistan to the north, and the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir to the east. The region is claimed by India and has been the subject of a dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947. [1]