Dras
Kargil is a town in Ladakh, India. It's an important transit hub of Ladakh, with roads leading from here to Leh, Srinagar, and Padum in Zanskar. One of the two capitals of Ladakh, and the capital of Kargil district, it is still a small town.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town
- Description: human settlement in Kargil district, Ladakh, India
- Also known as: “Drās” and “Drass”
Dras
- Categories: Municipal Corporation (India) and locality
- Location: Drass, Kargil, Ladakh, Himalayan North, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
34.42927° or 34° 25′ 45″ northLongitude
75.75076° or 75° 45′ 3″ eastElevation
3,090 metres (10,138 feet)Open location code
8J6QCQH2+P8OpenStreetMap ID
node 299754270OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Venetian—“Dras” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “دراس”
- Assamese: “দ্ৰাস”
- Asturian: “Dras”
- Bengali: “দ্রাস”
- Chinese: “德拉斯”
- Dutch: “Dras”
- Egyptian Arabic: “دراس”
- French: “Dras”
- German: “Dras”
- Hindi: “द्रास”
- Japanese: “ドラス”
- Kannada: “ದ್ರಾಸ್”
- Kashmiri: “دراس”
- Kashmiri: “درٛاس”
- Korean: “드라스”
- Malayalam: “ദ്രാസ്”
- Marathi: “द्रास”
- Persian: “دراس”
- Persian: “دره دراس”
- Portuguese: “Dras”
- Russian: “Драс”
- Slovenian: “Dras”
- Spanish: “Dras”
- Tamil: “திராஸ்”
- Telugu: “ద్రాస్”
- Telugu: “హుమాస్”
- Telugu: “హేమ్-బాబ్స్”
- Thai: “ดราส”
- Urdu: “دراس”
- Venetian: “Dras”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Dras”. Photo: Narender9, CC BY-SA 3.0.