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Ladakh is a mountainous region in . Due to its geographical and cultural similarity with , Ladakh is sometimes described as "Little Tibet".
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Leh and Pangong Lake.

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is one of the two capitals of Ladakh, a union territory of . is in the Indus River Valley, at a crossroads of the old trading routes from , and .

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is a famous soda lake in the Ladakh region of . It is actually separated between India and China, and there have been border disputes in the past.

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is a town in Ladakh, . It's an important transit hub of Ladakh, with roads leading from here to , , and Padum in . One of the two capitals of Ladakh, and the capital of district, it is still a small town.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Zanskar and Nubra Valley.

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, Zahar or Zangskar, is the southwestern region of in the Indian union territory of Ladakh. The administrative centre of is .

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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 Leh district. Its inhabited areas form a tri-armed valley cut by the Nubra and rivers.

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, also spelt Anle, is a large historic village in the Leh district of the Indian union territory of Ladakh. It is located in the River valley on an old branch of the ancient Ladakh– trade route and comprises the six hamlets Bhok, Dhado, Punguk, Khuldo, Naga and Tibetan Refugee habitation.

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is a village between and in Ladakh, . It sites beside the Indus River and its main attraction is the fabulous Gompa or Buddhist monastic complex.

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Lamayouro is a village in the Leh district of Ladakh, . The is located nearby. It is located in the tehsil. The region is also referred to as ‘Moon Land’, due to its terrain's resemblance to the surface of the Moon.

Markha Valley is a trek in the union territory of Ladakh, . 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.

is a rural area and wildlife sanctuary in the Ladakh region of .
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Ladakh

Latitude of center
33.9456° or 33° 56′ 44″ north
Longitude of center
77.6569° or 77° 39′ 25″ east
Population
133,000
Elevation
5,273 metres (17,300 feet)
Abbreviation
“LLD”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 6960124485
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1265343
Wiki­data ID
Q200667
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Ladakh” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “لداخ”
  • Armenian: “Լադախ”
  • Assamese: “লাডাখ”
  • Assamese: “লাদাখ”
  • Awadhi: “लद्दाख”
  • 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”
  • Hebrew: “לאדאק”
  • Hebrew: “לדאק”
  • Hindi: “लदाख”
  • Hindi: “लद्दाख”
  • Hindi: “लद्दाख़”
  • Hungarian: “Ladak”
  • Hungarian: “Ladakh”
  • Icelandic: “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”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • Turkish: “Ladah”
  • Turkish: “Ladakh”
  • Ukrainian: “Ладакг”
  • Ukrainian: “Ладакх”
  • Urdu: “لداخ”
  • Urdu: “لدّاخ”
  • Urdu: “لَدَّاخ”
  • Urdu: “لَدّاخ”
  • Uzbek: “Ladakh”
  • Venetian: “Ladakh”
  • Vietnamese: “Ladakh”
  • Western Panjabi: “لداخ”
  • Wu Chinese: “拉达克”
  • Yue Chinese: “拉達克”
  • “Ladakh”
  • “लद्दाख”

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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 “Ladakh”. Photo: mckaysavage, CC BY 2.0.