Ladakh
For the Pakistani-controlled part of the northern region of Kashmir, see Gilgit-Baltistan. For the Chinese-controlled part of the northern region of Kashmir, see Tarim.Photo: Narender9, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Leh and Kargil.
Leh
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Leh, the main capital of Ladakh, India, is on the Indus River Valley, at a crossroads of the old trading routes from Xinjiang, Tibet and Kashmir.
Kargil
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Kargil, the second capital of Ladakh, India, is the region's important transit hub, with roads leading from here to Leh, Srinagar, and Padum in Zanskar.
Pangong Lake
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Zanskar and Hemis National Park.
Zanskar
Hemis National Park
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Hemis National Park is a national park in Ladakh and a haven for snow leopards and the numerous other rare and endangered species that live in the area.
Nubra Valley
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Nubra, also called Dumra, is a historical region of Ladakh, India that is currently administered as a subdivision and a tehsil in the Nubra district. Its inhabited areas form a tri-armed valley cut by the Nubra and Shyok rivers.
Hanle
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Please move this tag to the talk page: Hanle is a village in the Changthang district of the Indian union territory of Ladakh. It is located in the Hanle River valley on an old branch of the ancient Ladakh–Tibet trade route.
Alchi
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Alchi is a village between Leh and Lamayuru in Ladakh, India. It sites beside the Indus River and its main attraction is the fabulous Alchi Gompa or Buddhist monastic complex.
Lamayuru
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Lamayouro is a village in the Sham district of Ladakh, India. The Lamayuru Monastery is located nearby. It is located in the Wanla tehsil on the NH1 Srinagar-Leh Highway 15 kilometres east of the Fotu La at a height of 3,510 metres and 19 km southwest of Khalsi.
Markha Valley Trek
Markha Valley is a trek in the union territory of Ladakh, India. It is an amazing trip to get introduced with remote Buddhist Kingdom of Ladakh. While trekking on through this trek tourists passes through beautiful Buddhist monasteries, Mountain Villages, High altitude pastures of Nimaling and High altitude peak Kangyatse.Changthang Western Lakes
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Changthang Western Lakes is a rural area and wildlife sanctuary in the Ladakh region of India.
Ladakh
- Type: State with 133,000 residents
- Description: region administered by India as a union territory
- Also known as: “LA”, “Ladak”, “Ladākh District”, “Laddakh”, “Ladhak”, “Leh”, “Leh district”, “Leh Ladakh”, and “Leh(Ladakh)”
- Neighbors: Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir
- Categories: union territory of India, division in India, and locality
- Location: Himalayan North, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
33.9456° or 33° 56′ 44″ northLongitude of center
77.6569° or 77° 39′ 25″ eastPopulation
133,000Elevation
5,273 metres (17,300 feet)Abbreviation
“LLD”OpenStreetMap ID
node 6960124485OpenStreetMap feature
place=stateGeoNames ID
1265343Wikidata ID
Q200667
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Ladakh” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Ladaku”
- Angika: “लद्दाख”
- Arabic: “لداخ”
- Armenian: “Լադակհ”
- Assamese: “লাডাখ”
- Assamese: “লাদাখ”
- Awadhi: “लद्दाख”
- Azerbaijani: “Ladakh”
- Balinese: “Ladakh”
- Basque: “Ladakh”
- Belarusian: “Ладакх”
- Bengali: “লাদাখ”
- Bhojpuri: “लदाख”
- Bhojpuri: “लद्दाख”
- Breton: “Ladakh”
- Bulgarian: “Ладакх”
- Burmese: “လာတက်”
- Catalan: “Ladak”
- Catalan: “Ladakh”
- Cebuano: “Ladākh”
- Central Kurdish: “لاداخ”
- Chinese: “Ladakh”
- Chinese: “拉达克”
- Chinese: “拉达克王国”
- Chinese: “拉达克王朝”
- Chinese: “拉達克”
- Czech: “Ladak”
- Czech: “Ladák”
- Czech: “Ladakh”
- Czech: “Ladákh”
- Dutch: “Ladakh”
- Dutch: “Lhadakh”
- Dzongkha: “ལ་དྭགས།”
- Esperanto: “Ladaĥo”
- Esperanto: “Ladako”
- Estonian: “Ladakh”
- Finnish: “Ladakh”
- French: “Ladakh”
- Georgian: “ლადაქი”
- German: “Ladadh”
- German: “Ladakh”
- Greek: “Λαντάχ”
- Gujarati: “લડાખ”
- Gujarati: “લદાખ”
- Gujarati: “લદ્દાખ”
- Hausa: “Ladakh”
- Hausa: “Laddakh”
- Hebrew: “לאדאק”
- Hebrew: “לדאק”
- Hindi: “लदाख”
- Hindi: “लद्दाख”
- Hindi: “लद्दाख़”
- Hungarian: “Ladak”
- Hungarian: “Ladakh”
- Icelandic: “Ladakh”
- Igbo: “Ladakh”
- Indonesian: “Ladakh”
- Irish: “Ladakh”
- Italian: “Ladak”
- Italian: “Ladakh”
- Japanese: “ラダック”
- Japanese: “ラダック人”
- Japanese: “ラダック地方”
- Kannada: “ಲಡಾಖ್”
- Kashmiri: “لَداخ”
- Korean: “라다크”
- Korean: “라다흐”
- Latvian: “Ladakha”
- Latvian: “Ladākha”
- Latvian: “Mazā Tibeta”
- Lithuanian: “Ladachas”
- Lithuanian: “Ladakas”
- Lithuanian: “Ladako istorija”
- Macedonian: “Ладак”
- Magahi: “लद्दाख”
- Maithili: “लदाख सम्पादन”
- Maithili: “लदाख”
- Malay: “Ladakh”
- Malayalam: “ലഡാക്”
- Malayalam: “ലഡാക്ക്”
- Manipuri: “ꯇꯁꯣ ꯃꯣꯔꯤꯔꯤ”
- Marathi: “लडाख”
- Marathi: “लढ्ढाक”
- Marathi: “लदाख”
- Marathi: “लद्दाख”
- Mazanderani: “لاداخ”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Ladakh”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ladakh”
- Mingrelian: “ლადაქი”
- Mongolian: “Ладакх”
- Nepali: “लदाख”
- Nepali: “लद्दाख”
- Northern Frisian: “Ladakh”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ladakh”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ladakh”
- Norwegian: “Ladakh”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Ladakh”
- Oriya: “ଲଦାଖ”
- Ossetian: “Ладак”
- Panjabi: “ਲਦਾਖ਼”
- Panjabi: “ਲੱਦਾਖ”
- Panjabi: “ਲੱਦਾਖ਼”
- Persian: “لداخ”
- Polish: “Ladakh”
- Portuguese: “Ladak”
- Portuguese: “Ladakh”
- Portuguese: “Ladaque”
- Romanian: “Ladakh”
- Russian: “Ладак”
- Russian: “Ладакх”
- Russian: “Малый Тибет”
- Sanskrit: “लडाख्”
- Sanskrit: “लदाख”
- Sanskrit: “लद्दाखी”
- Santali: “ᱞᱟᱫᱟᱠᱷ”
- Saraiki: “لداخ”
- Scots: “Ladakh”
- Serbian: “Ладак”
- Sindhi: “لداخ”
- Sinhala: “ලඩාඛ්”
- Slovak: “Ladák”
- Slovenian: “Ladak”
- Spanish: “Ladaj”
- Spanish: “Ladakh”
- Swedish: “Ladakh”
- Tamil: “இலடாக்கு”
- Tamil: “லடாக்”
- Telugu: “లడఖ్”
- Telugu: “లడాఖ్”
- Thai: “ลาดัก”
- Tibetan: “ལ་དྭགས་”
- Tibetan: “ལ་དྭགས།”
- Tibetan: “ལ་དྭགས”
- Tulu: “ಲಡಾಖ್”
- Turkish: “Ladah”
- Turkish: “Ladakh”
- Ukrainian: “Ладакг”
- Ukrainian: “Ладакх”
- Urdu: “لداخ”
- Urdu: “لدّاخ”
- Urdu: “لَدَّاخ”
- Urdu: “لَدّاخ”
- Uzbek: “Ladakh”
- Venetian: “Ladakh”
- Vietnamese: “Ladakh”
- Western Frisian: “Ladakh”
- Western Panjabi: “لداخ”
- Wu Chinese: “拉达克”
- Yoruba: “Ladakh”
- Yue Chinese: “拉達克”
- “Ladakh”
- “लद्दाख”
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