Kargil district is a district in Indian-administered Ladakh in the disputed Kashmir-region, which is administered as a union territory of Ladakh. It is named after the city of Kargil, where the district headquarters lies. The district is bounded by...
Kargil (English: /ˈkɑrɡɪl/ KAR-ghil, Hindi: [kaːɾɡɪl]) or Kargyil is a city and headquarter of the eponymous district, tehsil, and community development block of Indian-administered Ladakh in the disputed Kashmir region. It is the joint capital of...
Zanskar is an administrative district in the Union Territory of Ladakh in India with headquarters at Padum. It was carved out of the Kargil district in 2026 to give autonomy to this historically isolated Himalayan region. Covering an area of...
Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council, Kargil (LAHDC Kargil), is an Autonomous District Council in Ladakh. LAHDC Kargil administers the Kargil District of Ladakh, India.
The Kargil War, also known as the Kargil conflict, was fought between India and Pakistan from May to July 1999 in the Kargil district of Ladakh, then part of the Indian-administered state of Jammu and Kashmir and along the Line of Control (LoC). In...
As of 2026, the Indian-administered union territory of Ladakh in the disputed Kashmir region consists of 8 notified districts. They include Kargil (with 45 revenue villages), Drass (19), Sankoo (35), Sham (27), Changthang (24), Nubra (30), Leh (44)...
Drass district (called Gateway to Ladakh), with headquarter at Drass-Ranbirpura, is one of the district in the Union Territory of Ladakh in India. It is also one of the smallest districts in the country.
The Kargil War Memorial, also known as Dras War Memorial, is a war memorial built by the Indian Army in the town of Dras, near Kargil city in Kargil district of Ladakh, India, commemorating the 1999 Kargil War between India and Pakistan. The...
Leh district is a district in Indian-administered Ladakh in the disputed Kashmir-region. Ladakh is an Indian-administered union territory. With an area of 45,110 km2.
The Suru River is a tributary of the Indus River that flows largely through the Kargil district of Ladakh, India, into Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan. The Suru Valley is coextensive with the Kargil tehsil, with the town of Kargil situated on its...
