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Kashmir

Kashmir is the northwestern region of the . Until the mid-19th century, the term Kashmir geographically denoted only the valley between the and the Pir Panjal mountain range.
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  • Type: disputed territory with 16,300,000 residents
  • Description: disputed territory between China, India and Pakistan
  • Also known as: “Cashmere”, “Kashir”, “Kashmar”, “Keshmar”, and “Keshmir”

Kashmir

Latitude of center
34.5° or 34° 30′ north
Longitude of center
76° east
Population
16,300,000
Wiki­data ID
Q43100
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Kashmir” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kasjmir”
  • Albanian: “Kashmiri”
  • Angika: “कश्मीर”
  • Arabic: “إقليم كشمير”
  • Arabic: “الكشمير”
  • Arabic: “كشمير”
  • Arabic: “كشميريين”
  • Aragonese: “Caixmir”
  • Armenian: “Քաշմիր”
  • Assamese: “কাশ্মীৰ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kəşmir”
  • Bashkir: “Кәшмир”
  • Basque: “Katxemira”
  • Basque: “Kaxmir”
  • Belarusian: “Кашмір”
  • Bengali: “কাশ্মীর”
  • Bhojpuri: “कश्मीर”
  • Bhojpuri: “काश्मीर”
  • Bishnupriya: “কাশ্মির লয়াগ”
  • Bosnian: “Kašmir”
  • Breton: “Kachmir”
  • Bulgarian: “Кашмир”
  • Catalan: “Caiximir”
  • Catalan: “Caixmir”
  • Catalan: “Kashmir”
  • Catalan: “Vall Caixmir”
  • Central Kurdish: “کەشمیر”
  • Chinese: “Kashmir”
  • Chinese: “克什米尔”
  • Chinese: “克什米尔地区”
  • Chinese: “克什米爾”
  • Chinese: “喀什米尔”
  • Chinese: “喀什米爾”
  • Chinese: “羯湿弥罗”
  • Croatian: “Kašmir”
  • Czech: “Kašmír”
  • Danish: “Jammu og Kashmir”
  • Danish: “Kashmir”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Keşmir”
  • Dutch: “Jammu en Kasjmir”
  • Esperanto: “Kaŝmiro”
  • Estonian: “Kashmir”
  • Estonian: “Kašmir”
  • Faroese: “Kashmir”
  • Finnish: “Kashmir”
  • Finnish: “Kasmir”
  • Finnish: “Kašmir”
  • French: “Cachemire”
  • Galician: “Cachemira”
  • Galician: “Caxemira”
  • Georgian: “ქაშმირი”
  • German: “Kaschmir”
  • German: “Kashmir”
  • Greek: “Κασμίρ”
  • Gujarati: “કાશ્મીર”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kashmir”
  • Hausa: “Kashmir”
  • Hebrew: “חבל קשמיר”
  • Hebrew: “קשמיר”
  • Hindi: “कश्मीर”
  • Hindi: “काश्मीर”
  • Hungarian: “Kasmír”
  • Icelandic: “Kasmír”
  • Indonesian: “Kashmir”
  • Irish: “an Chaismír”
  • Irish: “An Chaismír”
  • Italian: “Kashmir”
  • Italian: “Kashmira”
  • Italian: “Kashmiri”
  • Italian: “Kashmiro”
  • Italian: “Kaśmīr”
  • Japanese: “カシミール”
  • Japanese: “カシミール問題”
  • Japanese: “カシミール地方”
  • Japanese: “カシミア地方”
  • Japanese: “カシュミール”
  • Japanese: “カシュミール地方”
  • Japanese: “ジャンムー・カシミール藩王国”
  • Javanese: “Kashmir”
  • Javanese: “Kasmira”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾಶ್ಮೀರ”
  • Kashmiri: “کٲشِر”
  • Kashmiri: “کٔشیٖر”
  • Kazakh: “Кашмир”
  • Kirghiz: “Кашмир”
  • Korean: “카슈미라”
  • Korean: “카슈미르 지방”
  • Korean: “카슈미르”
  • Korean: “캐시미르”
  • Kurdish: “Keşmîr”
  • Kurdish: “کشمیر”
  • Latin: “Casmeria”
  • Latin: “Casmiria”
  • Latin: “Caspira”
  • Latin: “Vallis Caspiraeorum”
  • Latvian: “Kašmira”
  • Latvian: “Kašmīra”
  • Latvian: “Kašmiras reģions”
  • Lithuanian: “Kašmyras”
  • Low German: “Kaschmir”
  • Low German: “Kashmir”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kaschmir”
  • Macedonian: “Кашмир”
  • Magahi: “कश्मीर”
  • Magahi: “काश्मीर”
  • Malay: “Kashmir”
  • Malayalam: “Kashmir”
  • Malayalam: “കശ്മീർ”
  • Malayalam: “കാശ്മീർ”
  • Malayalam: “കാശ്മീർ‌”
  • Marathi: “कश्‍मीर”
  • Marathi: “काश्मिर”
  • Marathi: “काश्मीर”
  • Marathi: “काश्‍मीर”
  • Mazanderani: “کشمیر”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Kashmir”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kashmir”
  • Minangkabau: “Kashmir”
  • Mingrelian: “ქაშმირი”
  • Mongolian: “Кашмир”
  • Nepali: “कश्मीर”
  • Newari: “काष्मीर्”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kaschmir”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kashmir”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kasjmir”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kashmir”
  • Norwegian: “Kashmir”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Cashmir”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cascmir”
  • Oriya: “କଶ୍ମୀର”
  • Oriya: “କାଶ୍ମୀର”
  • Ossetian: “Кашмир”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਸ਼ਮੀਰ”
  • Persian: “کاشمر”
  • Persian: “کاشیر”
  • Persian: “کشمر”
  • Persian: “کشمیر”
  • Piemontese: “Kashmir”
  • Polish: “Kaszmir”
  • Portuguese: “Cachemira”
  • Portuguese: “Caxemira”
  • Portuguese: “Kashimir”
  • Portuguese: “Kashmir”
  • Pushto: “کشمير”
  • Pushto: “کشمیر”
  • Romanian: “Caşmir”
  • Romanian: “Cașmir”
  • Romanian: “Kashmir”
  • Romanian: “Kaşmir”
  • Romanian: “Kașmir”
  • Russian: “Кашмир”
  • Sanskrit: “काश्मीर”
  • Serbian: “Кашмир”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kashmir”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kašmir”
  • Sindhi: “ڪشمير”
  • Sinhala: “කාශ්මීරය”
  • Slovak: “Kašmír”
  • Slovenian: “Kašmir”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کشمیر”
  • Spanish: “Cachemir”
  • Spanish: “Cachemira”
  • Spanish: “Cashmir”
  • Spanish: “Kachemira”
  • Spanish: “Kashmir”
  • Spanish: “Kashmira”
  • Spanish: “Region cachemira”
  • Spanish: “Región cachemira”
  • Spanish: “Region de Cachemira”
  • Spanish: “Región de Cachemira”
  • Spanish: “Region de Kashmir”
  • Spanish: “Región de Kashmir”
  • Spanish: “Region kashmir”
  • Spanish: “Región kashmir”
  • Swahili: “Jammu na Kashmir”
  • Swahili: “Kashmir”
  • Swedish: “Kaschmir”
  • Swedish: “Kashmir”
  • Tagalog: “Kashmir”
  • Tajik: “Кашмир”
  • Talysh: “Kašmir”
  • Tamil: “கஷ்மீரி”
  • Tamil: “கஷ்மீர்”
  • Tamil: “காசுமீர் பள்ளத்தாக்கு”
  • Tamil: “காசுமீர்”
  • Tamil: “காஷ்மீர்”
  • Tatar: “Кашмир”
  • Tatar: “Кәшмир”
  • Telugu: “కశ్మీర్”
  • Thai: “กัศมีร์”
  • Thai: “แคชเมียร์”
  • Turkish: “Kaşmir”
  • Turkish: “Keşmir”
  • Uighur: “كەشمىر”
  • Ukrainian: “Кашмір”
  • Urdu: “کشمیر”
  • Uzbek: “Kashmir”
  • Vietnamese: “Kashmir”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kashmir”
  • Welsh: “Kashmir”
  • Western Panjabi: “کشمیر”
  • Wu Chinese: “克什米尔”
  • Yue Chinese: “喀什米爾”
  • Zeeuws: “Kasjmir”
  • “Kashmir”
  • “काश्मीर”

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