Leh

Leh, the main capital of , , is on the Indus River Valley, at a crossroads of the old trading routes from , and .
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  • City with 37,500 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 3,502 metres (11,490 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code IXL
  • …is also known as “Len”
  • Description: city, one of the capitals of Ladakh, India

Places of Interest

Highlights include Leh Palace and Tsemo Castle.
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, also known as Lachen Palkar Palace…
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is an important religious and historical point in Leh, , India.
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, or Sankar Gompa is a Buddhist…

Leh

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Latitude
34.1642° or 34° 9′ 51″ north
Longitude
77.5848° or 77° 35′ 5″ east
UN/LOCODE
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”
  • Angika: “लेह”
  • Arabic: “لياه”
  • Arabic: “ليه”
  • Assamese: “লেহ”
  • Asturian: “Leh”
  • Basque: “Leh”
  • Bengali: “লে”
  • Bengali: “লেহ”
  • Bhojpuri: “लेह”
  • Bishnupriya: “লেহ”
  • Catalan: “Leh”
  • Cebuano: “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”
  • Magahi: “लेह”
  • Malay: “Leh”
  • Malayalam: “Leh”
  • Malayalam: “ലേ”
  • Marathi: “लेह”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Leh”
  • Mongolian: “Лех (хот)”
  • Mongolian: “Лех”
  • 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”
  • Tagalog: “Leh”
  • Tamil: “லே”
  • Telugu: “లే”
  • Telugu: “లేహ్”
  • Thai: “เลห์”
  • Tibetan: “གླེ།”
  • Tibetan: “སླེ།”
  • Tulu: “ಲೇಹ್”
  • Turkish: “Leh, Hindistan”
  • Turkish: “Leh”
  • Ukrainian: “Лег”
  • Ukrainian: “Лех”
  • Urdu: “لہہ”
  • Urdu: “لیھ”
  • Urdu: “لیہہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Leh”
  • Western Panjabi: “لہ”
  • Western Panjabi: “لہہ”
  • Western Panjabi: “لیہہ”
  • Wu Chinese: “列城”
  • Yue Chinese: “列城”

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