Himalayan North
Ladakh
Leh district

Khardung La

Khardung La or Khardung Pass is a mountain pass in the Leh district of the Indian union territory of . The pass is on the , north of , and connects the Indus river valley and the river valley.
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  • Type: Mountain saddle with an elevation of 5,552 metres
  • Description: Mountain pass in Ladakh, India
  • Also known as: “Khardong La”, “Khardong La Pass”, “Khardong Pass”, “Khardzong La”, and “Laowchi”

Khardung La

Latitude
34.27866° or 34° 16′ 43″ north
Longitude
77.60469° or 77° 36′ 17″ east
Elevation
5,552 metres (18,215 feet)
Open location code
8J6V7JH3+FV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2592572318
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­saddle
Geo­Names ID
1266938
Wiki­data ID
Q866388
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Urdu—“Khardung La” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Khardūng La”
  • Chinese: “Khardung La”
  • Chinese: “卡敦拉山口”
  • Czech: “Kardung La”
  • Dutch: “Khardung La”
  • Finnish: “Khardung La”
  • Finnish: “Khardungin sola”
  • French: “Khardung La”
  • German: “Kardung La”
  • German: “Kardung-Pass”
  • German: “Khardung La”
  • Gujarati: “ખારદુંગ લા”
  • Hebrew: “קרדונג לה”
  • Hebrew: “קרדונג-לה”
  • Hindi: “खारदुंग ला दर्रा”
  • Hindi: “खारदुंग ला”
  • Hindi: “खारदोंग ला दर्रा”
  • Italian: “Khardung La”
  • Japanese: “カルドゥン・ラ”
  • Japanese: “カルドン・ラ”
  • Japanese: “カルドン峠”
  • Korean: “카르둥 고개”
  • Malayalam: “കർതുംഗ് ല ചുരം”
  • Marathi: “खार्दुंग ला”
  • Panjabi: “ਖਾਰਦੁੰਗ ਲਾ”
  • Polish: “Khardung La”
  • Portuguese: “Khardung La”
  • Romanian: “Kardung La”
  • Russian: “Кхардунг Ла”
  • Russian: “Кхардунг-Ла”
  • Slovenian: “Prelaz Khardung La”
  • Spanish: “Khardung La”
  • Swedish: “Khardūng La”
  • Tamil: “கார்துங்க் லா”
  • Telugu: “ఖార్దుంగ్ లా కనుమ”
  • Telugu: “ఖార్దుంగ్ లా”
  • Telugu: “ఖార్దోంగ్ లా కనుమ”
  • Urdu: “کھاردونگ لا”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Khardung La”. Photo: Argenberg, CC BY 4.0.