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Zanskar Ladakh
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Ladakh
is a region of Jammu and Kashmir, the northernmost state of the
Republic of India. It lies between the Kunlun mountain range in the
north and the main Great Himalayas to the south, inhabited by people of
Indo-Aryan and Tibetan descent. It is one of the most sparsely
populated regions in Kashmir.
Historically, the region included the Baltistan (Baltiyul) valleys, the
Indus Valley, the remote Zangskar, Lahaul and Spiti to the south, Aksai
Chin and Ngari, including the Rudok region and Guge, in the east, and
the Nubra valleys to the north.
Contemporary Ladakh borders Tibet to the east, the Lahaul and Spiti to
the south, the Vale of Kashmir, Jammu and Baltiyul regions to the west,
and the trans–Kunlun territory of East Turkistan to the far north.
Ladakh is renowned for its remote mountain beauty and culture. It is
sometimes called "Little Tibet" as it has been strongly influenced by
Tibetan culture.
Ladakh is the highest plateau of the Indian state of Kashmir with much
of it being over 3,000 m (9,800 ft). It spans the Himalayan and
Karakoram mountain ranges and the upper Indus River valley.
Zanskar is a subdistrict or tehsil of the Kargil district, which lies
in the eastern half of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. The
administrative centre is Padum. Zanskar, together with the neighbouring
region of Ladakh, was briefly a part of the kingdom of Guge in Western
Tibet.
The Zanskar Range is a mountain range in the Indian state of Jammu and
Kashmir that separates Zanskar from Ladakh. Geologically, the Zanskar
Range is part of the Tethys Himalaya, an approximately 100-km-wide
synclinorium formed by strongly folded and imbricated, weakly
metamorphosed sedimentary series. The average height of the Zanskar
Range is about 6,000 m (19,700 ft). It's eastern part is known as
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