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The Khurnak Fort (Tibetan: མཁར་ནག, Wylie: mkhar nag, THL: khar nak) [1] is a ruined fort on the northern shore of Pangong Lake, which spans eastern Ladakh in India and Rutog County in the Tibet region of China. The area of the Khurnak Fort is disputed by India and China, and has been under Chinese administration since 1958.
The modern-era Ladakh–Tibet border came into being after the Tibet–Ladakh–Mughal War and the ensuing Treaty of Tingmosgang agreed between Ladakh and Tibet. Through these developments, according to scholars, the Rudok district (modern day Rutog County), which had been part of Ladakh since its inception in c. 930, was annexed to Tibet. [27]
Out of the 857-kilometre-long (533 mi) border in Ladakh, only 368 km (229 mi) is the International Border, and the remaining 489 km (304 mi) is the Line of Actual Control. [ 56 ] [ 57 ] The stand-off involving the most troops was in September 2014 in the disputed Chumar region when 800 to 1,000 Indian troops and 1,500 Chinese troops came into ...
The village of Demchok was mentioned in the Chronicles of Ladakh as the boundary point between Tibet and Ladakh demarcated in the 1684 Treaty of Tingmosgang. [12]When Henry Strachey visited the area in 1847, he described Demchok as a single hamlet with settlements on both the sides of the Lhari stream and the stream as the prevailing border between Ladakh and Tibet. [13]
This road connects Demchok to Koyul, Hanle and other places in Ladakh. The Border Roads Organisation claims it is the "world's highest motorable road", a title earlier, incorrectly, accorded to Khardung La road at 17,600 ft. [65] [66] [67] "Hanle-Fukche-Koyul-Demchok Road" (HFKD Road) was constructed by BRO, which runs via Koyul.
Ladakh border claimed by the Republic of China in a 1947 map. [ c ] Chinese claim lines in the Depsang Plains: 1956 claim line in green, 1960 claim line in dark brown, 1962 ceasefire line in orange. [ d ] Current situation at the mouth of Depsang Bulge: the established LAC from 1962 in red, the effective LAC in 2020 as per OpenStreetMap in ...
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An Indian border outpost was established here in the summer of 1960. [1] An Advance Landing Ground was also constructed here, one of the world's highest airstrips. DBO has two road links constructed by the Border Roads Organization , the 235 km-long Darbuk-Shyok-DBO Road , [ 2 ] and the Sasoma–Saser La-DBO Road which provides an alternate and ...