Himalayan North
Ladakh
Leh district

Leh

Leh is one of the two capitals of , a union territory of . Leh is in the Indus River Valley, at a crossroads of the old trading routes from , and .
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  • Type: City with 30,900 residents
  • Description: city, one of the capitals of Ladakh, India
  • Also known as: “Len”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Leh Palace and Namgyal Tsemo Monastery.

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, also known as Lachen Palkar Palace, is a former royal palace overlooking the city of Leh in , . It was constructed circa 1600 AD by Sengge Namgyal.

Buddhist temple
Photo: Karunakar Rayker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
or Namgyal Tsemo Gompa is a Buddhist monastery in Leh city of Leh district, , northern . Founded by King Tashi Namgyal of Ladakh, it has a three-story high gold statue of Maitreya Buddha and ancient manuscripts and frescoes.

Buddhist temple
Photo: Bhrigu bayan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, or Sankar Gompa is a Buddhist monastery within an easy half-hour walk from Leh in , northern . It is a daughter-establishment of the and the residence of the Abbot of Spituk, the Venerable Kushok Bakula, who is the senior incarnate lama of Ladakh due to his ancient lineage and personal authority.

Leh

Latitude
34.1642° or 34° 9′ 51″ north
Longitude
77.5848° or 77° 35′ 5″ east
Population
30,900
Elevation
3,502 metres (11,490 feet)
IATA airport code
IXL
United Nations Location Code
IN IXL
Open location code
8J6V5H7M+MW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 245774579
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1264976
Wiki­data ID
Q230818
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Leh” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Leh”
  • Arabic: “لياه”
  • Arabic: “ليه”
  • Assamese: “লেহ”
  • Asturian: “Leh”
  • Basque: “Leh”
  • Bengali: “লে”
  • Bengali: “লেহ”
  • Bhojpuri: “लेह”
  • Bishnupriya: “লেহ”
  • Catalan: “Leh”
  • Cebuano: “Leh”
  • Chinese: “Leh”
  • Chinese: “列城”
  • Chinese: “莱镇”
  • Chinese: “萊鎮”
  • Czech: “Léh”
  • Danish: “Leh”
  • Dutch: “Leh”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لياه”
  • Esperanto: “Leh (urbo)”
  • Esperanto: “Leh”
  • Estonian: “Leh”
  • Finnish: “Leh”
  • French: “Leh”
  • German: “Leh”
  • German: “Tal von Leh”
  • Greek: “Λε”
  • Gujarati: “લેહ”
  • Hebrew: “לדאק”
  • Hebrew: “לה”
  • Hindi: “लेह”
  • Hungarian: “Leh”
  • Indonesian: “Leh”
  • Irish: “Leh”
  • Italian: “Leh”
  • Japanese: “レー”
  • Kannada: “ಲೇಹ್”
  • Kashmiri: “لیہ”
  • Kashmiri: “لیہہ”
  • Korean: “레”
  • Korean: “레시”
  • Ladin: “Leh”
  • Latvian: “Leha”
  • Lithuanian: “Lė”
  • Lithuanian: “Leh”
  • Lithuanian: “Lehas”
  • Malay: “Leh”
  • Malayalam: “Leh”
  • Malayalam: “ലേ”
  • Marathi: “लेह”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Leh”
  • Nepali: “लेह”
  • Newari: “लेह”
  • Northern Frisian: “Leh”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Leh”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Leh”
  • Norwegian: “Leh”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Leh”
  • Ossetian: “Лех (Инди)”
  • Ossetian: “Лех”
  • Pampanga: “Leh”
  • Panjabi: “ਲੇਹ”
  • Persian: “له”
  • Polish: “Leh”
  • Portuguese: “Lé”
  • Portuguese: “Leh”
  • Romanian: “Leh”
  • Russian: “Лех”
  • Sanskrit: “लेह”
  • Santali: “ᱞᱮᱦ”
  • Serbian: “Лех (насеље у Индији)”
  • Serbian: “Лех”
  • Sinhala: “ලේහ්”
  • Slovenian: “Leh”
  • Spanish: “Leh”
  • Swedish: “Leh”
  • Tamil: “லே”
  • Telugu: “లే”
  • Telugu: “లేహ్”
  • Thai: “เลห์”
  • Tibetan: “གླེ།”
  • Tibetan: “སླེ།”
  • Turkish: “Leh, Hindistan”
  • Turkish: “Leh”
  • Ukrainian: “Лег”
  • Ukrainian: “Лех”
  • Urdu: “لیھ”
  • Urdu: “لیہہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Leh”
  • Western Panjabi: “لہ”
  • Western Panjabi: “لیہہ”
  • Wu Chinese: “列城”
  • Yue Chinese: “列城”
  • “लेह”

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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 “Leh”. Photo: Deeptrivia, CC BY-SA 3.0.