Khaplu
Khaplu, also spelt Khapalu, is a city that serves as the administrative capital of the Ghanche District in Pakistan-administered Gilgit-Baltistan, within the disputed Kashmir region.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Sanaullah Khan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town
- Description: Administrative capital of the Ghanche District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
- Also known as: “Khapalu”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Khaplu Palace and Chaqchan Mosque.
Khaplu Palace
Photo: Qammer Wazyr, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Khaplu Palace, locally known as Yabgo Khar, is an old fort and palace located in Khaplu, a city in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. The palace, considered an architectural heritage site and a significant tourist attraction, was built in the mid-19th century to replace an earlier-dated fort located nearby.
Chaqchan Mosque
Mosque
Photo: Muh.Ashar, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Chaqchan Mosque is a Sufi Noorbakshia mosque, located in the city of Khaplu, in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of northern Pakistan. Dating from 1370, the mosque is one of the oldest in the region, from the time when the area's populace converted en masse from Tibetan Buddhism to Islam.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ghursay.
Ghursay
Village
Ghursay is a village in district Ghanche, in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan. It lies about 25 km from district headquarter Khaplu. It was among the large settlements of Baltistan but river floods have reduced habitable areas. Ghursay is situated 9 km northeast of Khaplu.
Khaplu
- Category: locality
- Location: Ghanche District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
35.1635° or 35° 9′ 49″ northLongitude
76.34415° or 76° 20′ 39″ eastElevation
2,600 metres (8,530 feet)Open location code
8J7R587V+9MOpenStreetMap ID
node 298946774OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Khaplu” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “خبلو”
- Asturian: “Khaplu”
- Chinese: “哈普卢”
- Dutch: “Khaplu”
- Egyptian Arabic: “خبلو”
- French: “Khaplu”
- Georgian: “ხაფლუ”
- German: “Khaplu”
- Hindi: “खपलु”
- Hindi: “खपलू”
- Hindi: “खपालु”
- Hindi: “खपालू”
- Indonesian: “Khaplu”
- Italian: “Khaplu”
- Japanese: “カプル”
- Lithuanian: “Khaplu”
- Persian: “خپلو”
- Polish: “Khaplu”
- Russian: “Хаплу”
- Sindhi: “خپلو”
- Spanish: “Khaplu”
- Tamil: “கப்லு நகரம்”
- Ukrainian: “Хаплу”
- Urdu: “خپلو بلتستان”
- Urdu: “خپلو”
- Western Panjabi: “خپلو”
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Notable Places Nearby
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