Kargil district

district of Ladakh, India

Zanskar, Zahar (locally) or Zangskar, is the southwestern region of Kargil district in the Indian-administered union territory of Ladakh in the disputed Kashmir region. The administrative centre of Zanskar is Padum. Zanskar, together with the rest of Ladakh, was briefly a part of the kingdom of Western Tibet called Ngari Khorsum. Zanskar lies 250 km south of Kargil City on NH301.

mountain massif of the Himalaya

Sino-Tibetan language

river in India and Pakistan

glacier in India

mountain pass in the Indian Himalayas

mountain in Kargil, Drass. Famous for 1999 battle between Pakistan and India

Mountain in the Indian Himalayas

mountain range