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Ladakh

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[luh-dahk] / ləˈdɑk /

noun

  1. a region in Jammu and Kashmir, India, on the borders of China (Tibet) and Pakistan. 45,762 sq. mi. (118,524 sq. km).


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The night before he left to be part of a historic Indian expedition on Everest, Morup sat with his wife at his home in Ladakh, an Indian-administered territory in another part of the Himalayas.

From BBC Aug. 8, 2026

He is back in Leh, his hometown in the Himalayan region of Ladakh.

From BBC Aug. 5, 2026

"In Srinagar, I was a dumb boy from Ladakh who could not speak Hindi or English," he said.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

India on Saturday ended the preventive detention of prominent Ladakh activist Sonam Wangchuk, freeing him six months after he was held over protests in the Himalayan region.

From Barron's Mar. 14, 2026

Iskin, or Skeen of the Himalayas; Buz, in the upper part of the Sutlej; Kale, Kashmiri; Tangrol, in Kulu; Skin, the male, L'Damuo the female, in Ladakh.

From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale

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