Spiti
Spiti is a high-altitude region of the Himalayas, located in the north-eastern part of the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. The name "Spiti" means "The middle land", i.e. the land between Tibet and India.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Area
- Description: valley in Himachal Pradesh, India
- Also known as: “Spiti Valley”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hikkim and Ki.
Hikkim
Village
Photo: Sumita Roy Dutta, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hikkim is a village in Lahaul and Spiti district in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh at an elevation of 4,400 m. It is 15 km from Kaza, the nearest town connected by road. Hikkim is situated 6 km south of Spiti.
Ki
Photo: anilkothapalli, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kye Gompa is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery of the Gelugpa sect located on top of a hill at an altitude of 4,166 metres above sea level, close to the Spiti River, in the Spiti Valley of Himachal Pradesh, Lahaul and Spiti district, India.
Kibber
Photo: Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kibber, also Kibber Khas and Khyipur, is a village high in the Spiti Valley in the Himalayas at 4,270 m in Himachal Pradesh in northern India. It contains a monastery and is a base for visiting the Kibber Wildlife Sanctuary.
Spiti
- Category: valley
- Location: Himachal Pradesh, India, South Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Spiti” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “وادي سبيتي”
- Bengali: “স্পিটি ভ্যালি”
- Bhojpuri: “स्पीति घाटी”
- Bhojpuri: “स्पीति”
- Bhojpuri: “स्पीती घाटी”
- Bhojpuri: “स्पीती”
- Catalan: “Spiti”
- Chinese: “司丕底山谷”
- Chinese: “斯皮提山谷”
- Dutch: “Spiti”
- French: “vallée de Spiti”
- French: “Vallée de Spiti”
- German: “Spiti-Tal”
- German: “Spitital”
- Greek: “κοιλάδα Σπίτι”
- Hebrew: “ספיטי”
- Hebrew: “עמק ספיטי”
- Hindi: “स्पीति घाटी”
- Indonesian: “Spiti”
- Latin: “Vallis Spiti”
- Lithuanian: “Spyčio slėnis”
- Malayalam: “സ്പിതി താഴ്വര”
- Panjabi: “ਸਪੀਤੀ ਵਾਦੀ”
- Polish: “Spiti”
- Portuguese: “Vale de Spiti”
- Russian: “Спити”
- Spanish: “Valle de Spiti”
- Tamil: “ஸ்பிதி பள்ளத்தாக்கு”
- Thai: “สปีตี”
- Western Panjabi: “سپیتی وادی”
- “स्पीति”
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