Kargil
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- Type: district of India with 141,000 residents
- Description: district of Ladakh, India
- Also known as: “Kargil district”
Kargil
- Location: Ladakh, Himalayan North, India, South Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Kargil” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كارجيل”
- Arabic: “كارغل”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة كارغل”
- Assamese: “কাৰ্গিল জিলা”
- Asturian: “distritu de Kargil”
- Asturian: “Kargil (distritu)”
- Asturian: “Kargil”
- Bengali: “কার্গিল জেলা”
- Bhojpuri: “कारगिल जिला”
- Bishnupriya: “কার্গিল”
- Breton: “Bann Kargil”
- Cebuano: “Kargil (distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Kargil”
- Chinese: “Kargil”
- Chinese: “卡吉尔”
- Chinese: “卡吉尔县”
- Chinese: “卡基尔县”
- Chinese: “卡基爾”
- Chinese: “卡基爾縣”
- Czech: “Kárgil”
- Czech: “Okres Kárgil”
- Dutch: “Kargil District”
- Dutch: “Kargil”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مقاطعه كارجل”
- French: “district de Kargil”
- French: “District de Kargil”
- German: “Kargil”
- Gujarati: “કારગિલ જિલ્લો”
- Hindi: “कारगिल ज़िला”
- Indonesian: “Distrik Kargil”
- Indonesian: “Kargil”
- Irish: “Ceantar Kargil”
- Italian: “distretto di Kargil”
- Italian: “Distretto di Kargil”
- Japanese: “カールギル県”
- Japanese: “カルギリ”
- Japanese: “カルギル地区”
- Kashmiri: “کرگِل ضِلہٕ”
- Kashmiri: “کَرگِل ضِلہٕ”
- Malayalam: “Kargil”
- Malayalam: “കാർഗിൽ ജില്ല”
- Marathi: “कारगिल जिल्हा”
- Marathi: “कारगील”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kargil”
- Nepali: “कारगिल जिल्ला”
- Nepali: “कारगिल”
- Newari: “कार्गिल”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kargil”
- Norwegian: “Kargil”
- Persian: “بخش کارگل”
- Portuguese: “Carguil”
- Portuguese: “Distrito de Kargil”
- Portuguese: “Kargil”
- Russian: “Каргил”
- Russian: “Округ Каргил”
- Sanskrit: “कार्गिलमण्डलम्”
- Santali: “ᱠᱟᱨᱜᱤᱞ ᱦᱚᱱᱚᱛ”
- Slovenian: “Kargil”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Kargil”
- Swedish: “Kargil (distrikt)”
- Swedish: “Kargil”
- Tamil: “கார்கில் மாவட்டம்”
- Telugu: “కార్గిల్ జిల్లా”
- Urdu: “ضلع کارگل”
- Vietnamese: “Kargil”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع کارگل”
- “कारगिल जिला”
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