Kargil Town

Kargil Town

Kargil (Urdu: کارگل‎; Hindi: करगिल ; Ladakhi: ཀར་གིལ་) is a town, which serves as the headquarters of Kargil district of Ladakh in the state of Jammu and Kashmir in India. It is the second largest town in Ladakh after Leh. It is located 60 km and 204 km from Drass and Srinagar to the west respectively, 234 km from Leh to the east, 240 km from Padum to the southeast and 1,047 km from Delhi to the south.

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