Geography of Ladakh, the Glossary

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1. 138 relations: Aksai Chin, Aryan Valley, Azad Kashmir, Bakarwal, Balti language, Baltistan, Bara-lacha la, Basgo, Batalik, Battle of Turtuk, Chalunka, Chang Chenmo River, Chang La, Changtang, Changthang Wildlife Sanctuary, Chewang Rinchen, Chiling Sumda, Chip Chap River, Chorbat Valley, Chumathang, Chushul, Darbuk–Shyok–DBO Road, Daulat Beg Oldi, Demchok sector, Demchok, Ladakh, Depsang Bulge, Depsang Plains, Diskit, Doda River, Drang-Drung Glacier, Dras River, Dumchele, Durbuk, Fukche, Galwan River, Gangdise Shan, Geography of Tibet, Geology of the Himalayas, Gogra, Ladakh, Granite, Gurung Hill, Hanle (village), Himalayas, Hot Springs, Chang Chenmo Valley, India, Indian Astronomical Observatory, Indian Plate, Indus River, Indus-Yarlung suture zone, Jammu, ... Expand index (88 more) »

2. Plateaus of India

Aksai Chin

Aksai Chin is a region administered by the People's Republic of China (PRC) partly in Hotan County, Hotan Prefecture, Xinjiang and partly in Rutog County, Ngari Prefecture, Tibet and constituting the easternmost portion of the larger Kashmir region that has been the subject of a dispute between India and the PRC as well as the Republic of China (ROC) on Taiwan since 1959.

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Aryan Valley

Aryan Valley, historically known as Dah Hanu region, is an area comprising four village clusters — Dah and Hanu in Leh district, and Garkon and Darchik in Kargil district — in Central Ladakh in India.

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Azad Kashmir

Azad Jammu and Kashmir abbreviated as AJK and colloquially referred to as simply Azad Kashmir, is a region administered by Pakistan as a nominally self-governing entitySee.

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Bakarwal

The Bakarwal, (also spelled Bakkarwal or Bakrawala) are a nomadic ethnic group who along with Gujjars, have been listed as Scheduled Tribes in the Indian Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh since 1991.

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Balti language

Balti (Nastaʿlīq script:, Tibetan script: སྦལ་ཏི།) is a Tibetic language natively spoken by the ethnic Balti people in the Baltistan region of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, Nubra Valley of the Leh district and in the Kargil district of Ladakh, India.

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Baltistan

Baltistan (بلتستان; script) also known as Baltiyul or Little Tibet (script), is a mountainous region in the Pakistani-administered territory of Gilgit-Baltistan and constitutes a northern portion of the larger Kashmir region that has been the subject of a dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947.

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Bara-lacha la

Bara-lacha la also known as Bara-lacha Pass, or Bārā Lācha La, (el.) is a high mountain pass in the Zanskar range of Northern-India, connecting Lahaul district in Himachal Pradesh to Leh district in Ladakh.

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Basgo

Basgo or Bazgoo, is a village situated on the bank of the Indus River in Leh district, Ladakh, India.

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Batalik

Batalik is a village and military base in Ladakh, India, located in a narrow section of the Indus River valley, close to the Line of Control with Pakistan-administered Baltistan.

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Battle of Turtuk

The Battle of Turtuk was a military engagement between India and Pakistan that took place during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.

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Chalunka

Chalunka (also known as Chalunkha or Chulungkha) is a small mountainous village, in Nubra tehsil and Turtuk community development block, in Chorbat area of Shyok River valley in Ladakh, India.

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Chang Chenmo River

Chang Chenmo River or Changchenmo River is a tributary of the Shyok River, part of the Indus River system.

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Chang La

Chang La is a high mountain pass in Ladakh at an elevation of in the Ladakh Range between Leh and the Shyok River valley.

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Changtang

The Changtang (alternatively spelled Changthang or Qangtang) is a part of the high altitude Tibetan Plateau in western and northern Tibet extending into the southern edges of Xinjiang as well as southeastern Ladakh, India, with vast highlands and giant lakes. Geography of Ladakh and Changtang are plateaus of India.

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Changthang Wildlife Sanctuary

The Changthang Wildlife Sanctuary (or the Changthang Cold Desert Wildlife Sanctuary) is a high-altitude wildlife sanctuary located in the Ladakhi adjunct of the Changthang plateau in the Leh District of the union territory of Ladakh.

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Chewang Rinchen

Colonel Chewang Rinchen MVC & Bar, SM (Kalon Tsewang Rigdzin, 1931–1997) was a highly decorated officer in the Indian Army from the Union territory of Ladakh.

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Chiling Sumda

Chiling Sumda is a village in the Leh district of Ladakh, India.

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Chip Chap River

The Chip Chap River (meaning: "quiet river") is a tributary of the Shyok River that flows from the disputed Aksai Chin region administered by China to Ladakh in India.

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Chorbat Valley

Chorbat Valley (وادی چھوربٹ, chor bad) is a section of the Shyok river valley divided between Pakistan-administered Gilgit-Baltistan and Indian-administered Ladakh.

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Chumathang

Chumathang is a village in Leh District, Ladakh in northern India on the banks of the Indus River.

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Chushul

Chushul is a village in the Leh district of Ladakh, India.

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Darbuk–Shyok–DBO Road

The Darbuk–Shyok–DBO Road (DS-DBO Road/DSDBO Road), also called the Sub-Sector North Road, is a strategic all-weather road in eastern Ladakh in India, close to the Line of Actual Control with China.

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Daulat Beg Oldi

Daulat Beg Oldi (also Oldie, DBO) is a traditional campsite and current military base located in the midst of the Karakoram Range in northern Ladakh, India.

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Demchok sector

The Demchok sector is a disputed area named after the villages of Demchok in Ladakh and Demchok in Tibet, situated near the confluence of the Charding Nullah and Indus River.

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Demchok, Ladakh

Demchok,, KNAB Place Name Databse, retrieved 27 July 2021.

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Depsang Bulge

The Depsang Bulge or Burtsa Bulge is a 900-square-kilometre area of mountain terrain in the disputed Aksai Chin region, which was conceded to India by China in 1960, but has remained under Chinese occupation since the 1962 Sino-Indian War.

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Depsang Plains

The Depsang Plains, a high-altitude gravelly plain in the northwest portion of the disputed Aksai Chin region of Kashmir, divided into Indian and Chinese administered portions by a Line of Actual Control.

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Diskit

Diskit is a village and headquarter of the Nubra tehsil and the Nubra subdivision in the Leh district of Ladakh, India.

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Doda River

The Doda River or the Stod River is a river long, which forms the Stod Valley in the Zanskar valley of the Leh district in the Union Territory of Ladakh in India.

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Drang-Drung Glacier

The Drang-Drung Glacier (also called Durung Drung Glacier) is a mountain glacier near the Pensi La pass on the Kargil-Zanskar Road in the Kargil district of Ladakh in India.

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Dras River

The Dras River, also spelt Drass River, is a river in the Kargil district in the Indian union territory of Ladakh.

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Dumchele

Dumchele or Dhumtsele is a village and a grazing area in Skakjung pasture near the Line of Actual Control between Ladakh and Tibet, administered by China since October 1962 but claimed by India.

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Durbuk

Durbuk or Darbuk, is a village and the headquarters of the eponymous subdivision and block in the Leh district of Ladakh, India.

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Fukche

Fukche Advanced Landing Ground is an airfield in the Demchok sector of the union territory of Ladakh, India.

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Galwan River

The Galwan River flows from the disputed Aksai Chin area administered by China to the Union Territory of Ladakh, India.

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Gangdise Shan

The Kailash Range, Kailas Range, Gangdisi Mountains, Gangdese Range or Gangdisê Range, is a mountain range on the Tibetan Plateau in Tibet and the Tibet Autonomous Region.

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Geography of Tibet

The geography of Tibet consists of the high mountains, lakes and rivers lying between Central, East and South Asia.

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Geology of the Himalayas

The geology of the Himalayas is a record of the most dramatic and visible creations of the immense mountain range formed by plate tectonic forces and sculpted by weathering and erosion.

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Gogra, Ladakh

Gogra (also referred to as Nala Junction) is a pasture and campsite in the Ladakh union territory of India, near the Line of Actual Control with China.

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Granite

Granite is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase.

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Gurung Hill

Gurung Hill is a mountain near the Line of Actual Control between the Indian- and Chinese-administered portions of Ladakh near the village of Chushul and the Spanggur Lake.

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Hanle (village)

Hanle (also spelt Anle) is a large historic village in the Indian union territory of Ladakh.

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Himalayas

The Himalayas, or Himalaya.

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Hot Springs, Chang Chenmo Valley

Hot Springs (traditional name: Kyam) is a campsite and the location of an Indian border outpost in the Chang Chenmo River valley in Ladakh near the disputed border with China.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Indian Astronomical Observatory

The Indian Astronomical Observatory (IAO) is a high-altitude astronomy station located in Hanle, India and operated by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics.

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Indian Plate

The Indian Plate (or India Plate) is a minor tectonic plate straddling the equator in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Indus River

The Indus is a transboundary river of Asia and a trans-Himalayan river of South and Central Asia.

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Indus-Yarlung suture zone

The Indus-Yarlung suture zone or the Indus-Yarlung Tsangpo suture is a tectonic suture in southern Tibet and across the north margin of the Himalayas which resulted from the collision between the Indian plate and the Eurasian plate starting about 52 Ma.

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Jammu

Jammu is a city in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region.

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Jeong Nala

The Jeong Nala, also called Jiwan Nala: "It is mispronounced—or perhaps deliberately changed—as ‘Jiwan’ by both Indian soldiers posted there and visiting surveyors; it makes for another example of thoughtless deculturisation of Ladakh being committed by people from the plains." and Nacho Chu, and called Xidagou by China, a tributary of the Shyok River (which in turn is a tributary of Indus River), flows from the disputed Aksai Chin region administered by China to Ladakh in India.

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Jianan Pass

Jianan Pass is a mountain pass in the eastern Karakoram Range near the Chang Chenmo Valley.

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Kangju Kangri

Kangju Kangri is a mountain in the Karakoram Range of Asia located in the union territory of Ladakh, India.

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Karakash River

The Karakash or Black Jade River, also spelled Karakax (Қарақаш Дәряси), is a river in the Xinjiang autonomous region of the People's Republic of China that originates in Aksai Chin.

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Karakoram

The Karakoram is a mountain range in the Kashmir region spanning the border of Pakistan, China, and India, with the northwestern extremity of the range extending to Afghanistan and Tajikistan.

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Karakoram Pass

The Karakoram Pass is a mountain pass between India and China in the Karakoram Range.

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Kargil

Kargil or Kargyil is a city in Indian-administered Ladakh in the disputed Kashmir region.

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Kargil district

Kargil district is a district in Indian-administered Ladakh in the disputed Kashmir-region.

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Khaplu

Khaplu (Urdu:, pronounced: xəpluː; Balti: ཁཔ་ལུ།), also spelt Khapalu, is a city that serves as the administrative capital of the Ghanche District of Pakistan-administered Gilgit-Baltistan in the disputed Kashmir region.

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Khardung La

Khardung La or Khardung Pass is a mountain pass in the Leh district of the Indian union territory of Ladakh.

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Kharnak

Kharnak is a village in the Leh district of Ladakh, India.

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Khurnak Fort

The Khurnak Fort 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.

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Kongka Pass

The Kongka Pass or Kongka La is a low mountain pass on the Line of Actual Control between India and China in eastern Ladakh.

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Koyul

Koyul is a village in the Leh district of Ladakh, India.

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Kunlun Mountains

The Kunlun Mountains constitute one of the longest mountain chains in Asia, extending for more than.

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Ladakh

Ladakh is a region administered by India as a union territory 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.

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Ladakh Range

The Ladakh Range is a mountain range in central Ladakh in India with its northern tip extending into Baltistan in Pakistan.

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Lanak La

Lanak La or Lanak Pass (लानक दर्रा) is a mountain pass in the disputed Aksai Chin region, administered by China as part of the Tibet Autonomous Region.

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Leh

Leh is a city in Ladakh in the Himalayan region.

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Leh–Manali Highway

The Leh–Manali Highway is a long highway in northernmost India connecting Leh, the capital of the Union Territory of Ladakh, to Manali in the state of Himachal Pradesh.

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Line of Actual Control

The Line of Actual Control (LAC), in the context of the Sino-Indian border dispute, is a notional demarcation lineAnanth Krishnan,, 13 June 2020: "In contrast, the alignment of the LAC has never been agreed upon, and it has neither been delineated nor demarcated.

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List of districts of Ladakh

The Indian union territory of Ladakh consists of two districts.

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List of locations in Aksai Chin

This is a list of basins, camping grounds, lakes, mountains, mountain passes, outposts, plains, rivers, ruins, settlements, streams, valleys, villages, and other geographical features located in (or partially included in) the sparsely populated Aksai Chin region administered by China and claimed by India as part of Ladakh.

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List of mountain peaks of Ladakh

Ladakh is a newly formed union territory of India.

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Lukung

Lukung is a village located on the banks of Pangong Tso, near Line of Actual Control in the Leh District, Ladakh.

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Markha River (India)

The Markha River is a river in Ladakh, India.

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Marol

Marol is a locality in the suburb of the Andheri (East) in Mumbai, India.

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Marsimik La

Marsimik La or Marsemik La, also called Lankar La, elevation is a high mountain pass in the Chang Chenmo Range in the Indian union territory of Ladakh, east of Leh as the crow flies.

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Miru, Ladakh

Miru or Meroo is a village in the Leh district of Ladakh, India.

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Monsoon

A monsoon is traditionally a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with annual latitudinal oscillation of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) between its limits to the north and south of the equator.

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Mount Kailash

Mount Kailash (also Kailasa; Kangrinboqê or Gang Rinpoche; གངས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ;; कैलास) is a mountain in Ngari Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region of China.

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Mountain range

A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills arranged in a line and connected by high ground.

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Murgo

Murgo, on "Murgo Nala" near Murgo Hotspring, is a small hilly village which lies near the Line of Actual Control in Leh district of the union territory of Ladakh in India, close to Chinese-controlled Aksai Chin.

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Ngari Prefecture

Ngari Prefecture or Ali Prefecture is a prefecture of China's Tibet Autonomous Region covering Western Tibet, whose traditional name is Ngari Khorsum.

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Nimmu–Padum–Darcha road

Nimmu–Padum–Darcha road (NPD road) or Zanskar Highway is a road between the Indian union territory of Ladakh and the state of Himachal Pradesh, passing through the region of Zanskar.

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Nimo, Ladakh

Nimo or Nyemo is a village and the headquarters of an eponymous community development block in the Leh district of Ladakh, India.

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Nubra

Nubra, also called Dumra, is a historical region of Ladakh, India that is currently administered as a subdivision and a tehsil in the Leh district.

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Nubra River

The Nubra River is a river in the Nubra Valley of Ladakh in India.

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Nun Kun

Nun Kun is a mountain massif of the greater Himalayan range, located on the border of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh in northern India.

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Nyoma

Nyoma is a principal village of southern Ladakh in India, the headquarters of an eponymous subdivision, tehsil, community development block and Indian Air Force Base in the Leh district.

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Padum

Padum (also known as Padam) is the main town and the administrative centre of the Zanskar tehsil in Kargil district, Ladakh, India.

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Panamic

Panamic or Panamik is a village in the Leh district of Ladakh in India.

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Pangong Range

The Pangong Range, approximately 100 km long mountain range along the southern shore of the Pangong Lake in the northern Indian region of Ladakh, runs north of and parallel to the Ladakh Range from Tangtse in northwest to Chushul in southeast.

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Pangong Tso

Pangong Tso or Pangong Lake (translit-std) is an endorheic lake spanning eastern Ladakh and West Tibet situated at an elevation of.

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Pensi La

Pensi-la (Pensi Pass) is a mountain pass in the Ladakh union territory of India, which is known as the Gateway to Zanskar.

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Phugtal Monastery

Phuktal Monastery or Phuktal Gompa (often transliterated as Phugtal) is a Buddhist monastery located in the remote Lungnak Valley in south-eastern Zanskar, in the Himalayan region of Ladakh, in Northern India.

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Phursook Bay

Phursook Bay is a bay in the Pangong Tso that is said to have formed the border between Ladakh and Tibet's Rutog County during the British Raj.

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Plateau

In geology and physical geography, a plateau (plateaus or plateaux), also called a high plain or a tableland, is an area of a highland consisting of flat terrain that is raised sharply above the surrounding area on at least one side.

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Rain shadow

A rain shadow is an area of significantly reduced rainfall behind a mountainous region, on the side facing away from prevailing winds, known as its leeward side.

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Rangdum Monastery

Rangdum Monastery is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery belonging to the Gelugpa sect, situated on top of a small but steep sugarloaf hill at an altitude of 4,031 m (13,225 ft) at the head of the Suru Valley, in Ladakh.

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Rezang La

Rechin La which was called Rezang La Note given by the Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi, to the Embassy of China in India, 26 July 1963.

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Saddle (landform)

The saddle between two hills or mountains is the region surrounding the saddle point, the lowest point on the line tracing the drainage divide (the col) connecting the peaks.

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Sankoo

Sankoo is a town in a valley within the Kargil district of the Union Territory of Ladakh, India.

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Sasoma

Sasoma is a settlement in the Leh district of Ladakh in India.

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Sasoma–Saser La Road

Sasoma–Sasser La-Saser Brangsa-Gapsam-Daulat Beg Oldi Road (SSSG-DBO Road) 131 km long road through high Saser La, and its 18-km-long northwest-to-southeast fork the Sasser Brangsa-Murgo Road (SBM Road), are 30-ft-wide black-topped heavy-military-vehicle-grade motorable road between Nubra Valley and Depsang Plains (DBO-Daulat Beg Oldi) in Ladakh in India.

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Sasser Pass

Saser Pass, Saser La, or Sasser Pass (el.) is a high mountain pass in Ladakh and India on the ancient summer caravan route from Leh in Ladakh to Yarkand in the Tarim Basin.

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Shey

Shey is a village in the Leh district of Ladakh, India.

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Shia Islam

Shia Islam is the second-largest branch of Islam.

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Shingo River

The Shingo River is a tributary of the Indus River, and flows through Gilgit-Baltistan and Kargil regions.

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Shinku La

Shingo La (also known as Shinku La) is a mountain pass in India, on the state boundary between Ladakh and Himachal Pradesh.

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Shyok (village)

Shyok or Shayok is a village on the bank of the Shyok River in Durbuk tehsil of Leh district in Ladakh, India.

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Shyok River

The Shyok River is a tributary of the Indus River that flows through northern Ladakh and enters Gilgit–Baltistan, in Pakistan, spanning some.

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Siachen Base Camp (India)

Siachen Base Camp, 12,000 feet above sea level at Partapur, is a base camp of 102 Infantry Brigade (Siachen brigade) of XIV Corps of Indian Army which protects 110 km long Actual Ground Position Line (AGPL) with at least 108 forward military outposts and artillery observation posts in the disputed region of Siachen Glacier in Ladakh Union Territory of India.

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Siachen Glacier

The Siachen Glacier is a glacier located in the eastern Karakoram range in the Himalayas at about, just northeast of the point NJ9842 where the Line of Control between India and Pakistan ends.

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Sino-Indian border dispute

The Sino–Indian border dispute is an ongoing territorial dispute over the sovereignty of two relatively large, and several smaller, separated pieces of territory between China and India.

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Skakjung

Skakjung or Kokzhung is 45–kilometer long pasture land along the right bank of Indus River valley in Southern Ladakh.

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Skardu

Skardu (سکردو|translit.

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Spanggur Gap

The Spanggur Gap is a high mountain pass on the Line of Actual Control between the Ladakh union territory of India and the Rutog County, Ngari Prefecture in the Tibet region of China.

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Spanggur Tso

Spanggur Tso, also called Maindong Tso, Mendong Tso, is a saltwater lake in Rutog County in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, close to the border with Ladakh.

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States and union territories of India

India is a federal union comprising 28 states and 8 union territories, for a total of 36 entities.

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Suru River (Indus)

The Suru River is a tributary of the Indus River that flows largely through the Kargil district of Ladakh, India into Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan.

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Suru Valley

The Suru Valley is a valley in the Kargil District in the Union Territory of Ladakh, India.

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Tangtse

Tangtse or Drangtse is a village in the Leh district of Ladakh, India.

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Tianwendian

Tianwendian is the name of a border outpost and a military defence area of China in the northern Aksai Chin region under its administration (as part of Xinjiang).

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Tingmosgang

Tingmosgang is a fortress in Temisgam village, on the bank of the Indus River in Ladakh, in northwestern India.

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Tourism in Ladakh

Tourism is one of the economic contributors to the union territory of Ladakh in Northern India.

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Tsarap River

Tsarap River, also known as Tsarap Chu, forms the eastern part of the Zanskar valley, in the Ladakh union territory of India.

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Tso Kar

The Tso Kar or Tsho kar is a fluctuating salt lake known for its size and depth situated in the Rupshu Plateau and valley in the southern part of Ladakh in India.

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Tso Tang

Tso Tang (Historically Tso Thang) is an alkaline lake located in the disputed territory of Aksai Chin in Hotan Prefecture of Xinjiang province of China.

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Turtuk

Turtuk is a village and the headquarters of an eponymous community development block in the Indian union territory of Ladakh.

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Ukdungle

Ukdungle is a small Indian Army military compound entirely contained within a 40 by 70 meter area in Leh district, Ladakh in northern India, 48 km west of Demchok village on the Line of Actual Control with Tibet.

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Umling La

Umling La or Umlung La is the highest paved road and mountain pass in the world, located in Ladakh, India, on the ridgeline between Koyul Lungpa and the Indus River near Demchok.

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United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the United States government whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology.

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Upshi

Upshi is a village and road junction on the Leh-Manali Highway in the union territory of Ladakh in India.

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Zanskar

Zanskar, Zahar (locally) or Zangskar, is a tehsil of Kargil district, in the Indian union territory of Ladakh.

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Zanskar River

The Zanskar River is the first major tributary of the Indus River, equal or greater in volume than the main river, which flows entirely within Ladakh, India.

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Zoji La

Zoji La (sometimes Zojila Pass) is a high mountain pass in the Himalayas.

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2020–2021 China–India skirmishes

Beginning on 5 May 2020, Chinese and Indian troops engaged in aggressive melee, face-offs, and skirmishes at locations along the Sino-Indian border, including near the disputed Pangong Lake in Ladakh and the Tibet Autonomous Region, and near the border between Sikkim and the Tibet Autonomous Region.

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See also

Plateaus of India

• Bhander Plateau
• Changtang
• Chota Nagpur Plateau
• Deccan Plateau
• Geography of Ladakh
• Karbi Anglong Plateau
• Karbi-Meghalaya Plateau
• Kas Plateau Reserved Forest
• Kolar Plateau
• Mangi-Tungi
• Mysore plateau
• Rohtas Plateau
• Shillong Plateau
• Sigur Plateau
• Tibetan Plateau
• Vallam Plateau

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Ladakh

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