Zoji La
Zoji La is a high mountain pass in the Himalayas. It is located in the Ganderbal district of Jammu and Kashmir and the Kargil district of Ladakh, both union territories of India.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Pass with an elevation of 3,549 metres
- Description: mountain pass
- Also known as: “Zoji La Pass”, “Zojila Pass”, and “Zozila Pass”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Baltal and Amarnath Temple.
Baltal
Locality
Photo: aditya20, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Baltal is a camping ground for pilgrims, 75 km from Ganderbal town in Ganderbal district of Jammu and Kashmir, India and 93 km from capital city Srinagar and 15 km north of Sonamarg on the Sind River at the base of Zojila pass. Baltal is situated 6 km southwest of Zoji La.
Amarnath Temple
Locality
Photo: Gktambe, Public domain.
Amarnath Temple is a Hindu shrine located in the Pahalgam tehsil of Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir, India. It is a cave situated at an altitude of 3,888 m, about 168 km from Anantnag city, the district headquarters, 141 km from Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, reached through either Sonamarg or Pahalgam. Amarnath Temple is situated 8 km southeast of Zoji La.
Zoji La
- Categories: mountain pass and landform
- Location: Drass, Kargil, Ladakh, Himalayan North, India, South Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Vietnamese—“Zoji La” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “জোজি গিরিপথ”
- Bengali: “জোজি গিরিবর্ত্ম”
- Cebuano: “Zoji La”
- Dutch: “Zoji La”
- Dutch: “Zojipas”
- German: “Zoji La”
- Hindi: “जोजिला दर्रा”
- Hindi: “ज़ोजिला दर्रा”
- Japanese: “ゾージ・ラ”
- Japanese: “ゾージ・ラ峠”
- Kashmiri: “زوجیلا”
- Malayalam: “സോജിലാ ചുരം”
- Marathi: “झोजी ला”
- Polish: “Zoji La”
- Portuguese: “Zoji La”
- Russian: “Зоджи-Ла”
- Slovenian: “Zodži La”
- Swedish: “Zoji La”
- Tamil: “ஸோஜி லா கணவாய்”
- Telugu: “జోజి లా కనుమ”
- Telugu: “జోజి లా”
- Ukrainian: “Зоджі-Ла”
- Urdu: “زوجی لا”
- Vietnamese: “Zoji La”
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