29 Facts About Ladakh

Ladakh is a region administered by India as a union territory, which constitutes a part of the larger Kashmir region and has been the subject of dispute between India, Pakistan, and China since 1947.

Ladakh is bordered by the Tibet Autonomous Region to the east, the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh to the south, both the Indian-administered union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the Pakistan-administered Gilgit-Baltistan to the west, and the southwest corner of Xinjiang across the Karakoram Pass in the far north.

Largest town in Ladakh is Leh, followed by Kargil, each of which headquarters a district.

Ladakh is one of the most sparsely populated regions in India.

Ladakh was established as a union territory of India on 31 October 2019, following the passage of the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act.

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Ladakh is the largest and the second least populous union territory of India.

Rock carvings found in many parts of Ladakh indicate that the area has been inhabited from Neolithic times.

Around the 1st century, Ladakh was a part of the Kushan Empire.

Xuanzang's term of Ladakh is Mo-lo-so, which has been reconstructed by academics as *Malasa, *Marasa, or *Mrasa, which is believed to have been the original name of the region.

Ladakh remained Buddhist and its culture was not yet Tibetan.

Ladakh horsemen, depicted in Alchi Monastery, circa 13th century CE.

Ladakh helped in spreading Shia Islam in Kashmir and converted the overwhelming majority of Muslims in Baltistan to his school of thought.

Ladakh's was to be the first queen and her son was to become the next ruler.

Ladakh was administered as a wazarat during the Dogra rule, with a governor termed wazir-e-wazarat.

Ladakh was claimed as part of Tibet by Phuntsok Wangyal, a Tibetan Communist leader.

Ladakh region was divided into the Kargil and Leh districts in 1979.

On 8 February 2019, Ladakh became a separate Revenue and Administrative Division within Jammu and Kashmir, having previously been part of the Kashmir Division.

Ladakh is a high altitude desert as the Himalayas create a rain shadow, generally denying entry to monsoon clouds.

Ladakh is home to the Tibetan gazelle, which inhabits the vast rangelands in eastern Ladakh bordering Tibet.

The Hemis High Altitude National Park in central Ladakh is an especially good habitat for this predator as it has abundant prey populations.

Under the terms of the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, Ladakh is administered as a union territory without a legislative assembly or elected government.

Each district of Ladakh is administered by an autonomous district council, they are:.

Ladakh is under the jurisdiction of the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.

The union territory of Ladakh has its own police force headed by a director general of police.

Ladakh sends one member to the lower house of the Indian parliament the Lok Sabha.

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Polo, the other traditional sport of Ladakh, is indigenous to Baltistan and Gilgit, and was probably introduced into Ladakh in the mid-17th century by King Singge Namgyal, whose mother was a Balti princess.

Ladakh Marathon is a high-altitude marathon held in Leh every year since 2012.

Moravian Mission opened a school in Leh in October 1889, and the Wazir-i Wazarat of Baltistan and Ladakh ordered that every family with more than one child should send one of them to school.

In 1994 the Students' Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh launched Operation New Hope (ONH), a campaign to provide "culturally appropriate and locally relevant education" and make government schools more functional and effective.