Baltistan

Baltistan; also known as Baltiyul or Little Tibet, is a mountainous region in the -administered territory of and constitutes a northern portion of the larger region that has been the subject of a dispute between and Pakistan since 1947.
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  • Type: County
  • Description: region in Pakistan
  • Also known as: “Baltistān District” and “Baltiyul”

Baltistan

Latitude
35.5° or 35° 30′ north
Longitude
76° east
Open location code
8J7RG222+22
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316441061
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Wiki­data ID
Q805804
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Baltistan” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بلتستان”
  • Basque: “Baltistan”
  • Belarusian: “Балтыстан”
  • Bengali: “বালতিস্তান”
  • Catalan: “Baltistan”
  • Chinese: “巴勒提”
  • Chinese: “巴尔蒂斯坦”
  • Czech: “Baltistán”
  • Danish: “Baltistan”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Baltıstan”
  • Dutch: “Baltistan”
  • Esperanto: “Baltilando”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Baltistan”
  • Finnish: “Baltistan”
  • French: “Baltistan”
  • French: “District de Baltistan”
  • German: “Baltistan”
  • German: “Baltiyul”
  • German: “Distrikt Baltistan”
  • Hebrew: “בלטיסטאן”
  • Hindi: “बलतसतान”
  • Hindi: “बल्तिस्तान”
  • Indonesian: “Baltistan”
  • Italian: “Baltistan”
  • Japanese: “バルティスターン”
  • Japanese: “バルティスタン”
  • Kashmiri: “بلتِستان”
  • Korean: “발티스탄”
  • Latvian: “Baltistāna”
  • Lithuanian: “Baltijulas”
  • Lithuanian: “Baltistanas”
  • Lithuanian: “Šiaurės Kašmyras”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Baltistan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Baltistan”
  • Norwegian: “Baltistan”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Baltistan”
  • Ossetian: “Балтистан”
  • Ossetian: “Балтиюл”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਾਲਤਿਸਤਾਨ”
  • Persian: “بلتستان”
  • Polish: “Baltistan”
  • Portuguese: “Baltistão”
  • Portuguese: “Gilgit-baltistan”
  • Portuguese: “Gilgit-Baltistan”
  • Portuguese: “Pequeno Tibete”
  • Russian: “Балтистан”
  • Russian: “Балтиюл”
  • Slovenian: “Baltistan”
  • Spanish: “Baltistan”
  • Spanish: “Baltistán”
  • Spanish: “Baltiyul”
  • Spanish: “Distrito de Baltistán”
  • Tamil: “பல்திஸ்தான்”
  • Thai: “บัลติสถาน”
  • Tibetan: “སྦལ་ཏི་”
  • Ukrainian: “Балтистан”
  • Ukrainian: “Балтістан”
  • Urdu: “بلتستان”
  • Urdu: “بلتی یل”
  • Venetian: “Baltistan”
  • Western Panjabi: “بلتستان”

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