Zanskar
Zanskar, Zahar or Zangskar, is a district and region in the Union Territory of Ladakh in India. Zanskar, together with the rest of Ladakh, was briefly a part of the kingdom of Western Tibet called Ngari Khorsum.
- Type: Mountain with an elevation of 4,547 metres
- Description: District of Ladakh, India
- Also known as: “Sa-ssu-k’a-erh Shan”, “Sa-ssu-K’a-erh Shan”, “Zanskar district”, “Zanskar Range”, “Zāskār Mountains”, and “Zāskār Range”
Zanskar
- Categories: district of India and landform
- Location: Ladakh, Himalayan North, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
33.25° or 33° 15′ north
Longitude
77.6667° or 77° 40′ east
Elevation
4,547 metres (14,918 feet)
Open location code
8J5V7M28+2M
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Zanskar” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “زانسكار”
- Catalan: “Zanskar”
- Chinese: “藏斯卡”
- Czech: “Zanskar”
- Dutch: “Zanskar”
- Finnish: “Zanskar”
- French: “district de Zanskar”
- French: “Zanskar”
- German: “Zanskar”
- Hebrew: “זנסקר”
- Hindi: “ज़ंस्कार”
- Hindi: “ज़ांस्कर”
- Hungarian: “Zanszkár”
- Italian: “Zanskar”
- Japanese: “ザンスカール”
- Kannada: “ಜ಼ನ್ಸ್ಕಾರ್”
- Kannada: “ಜ಼ನ್ಸ್ಕಾರ್”
- Kashmiri: “زَنٛسکار”
- Lithuanian: “Zanskaras”
- Macedonian: “Занскар”
- Malayalam: “സൻസ്കർ ജില്ല”
- Marathi: “झंस्कार जिल्हा”
- Polish: “Zanskar”
- Portuguese: “Zang-skar”
- Portuguese: “Zangskar”
- Portuguese: “Zanskar”
- Russian: “Занскар”
- Slovenian: “Zanskar”
- Spanish: “Zanskar”
- Tamil: “சன்ஸ்கார்”
- Ukrainian: “Занскар”
- Urdu: “زنسکار”
- Urdu: “زَنگسَکار”
- Uzbek: “Zaskar”
- Western Panjabi: “زنسکر”
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