A report on Jammu and Kashmir (union territory), Union territory and Jammu and Kashmir (state)

Topographic map of Jammu and Kashmir, with visible altitude for the Kashmir valley and Jammu region.

A high-altitude alpine lake in the Himalayan range in Jammu and Kashmir

Police and protesters confronting each other in Kashmir, 2018

Jammu and Kashmir union territory (J and K) is bordered in carmine colour. Ladakh union territory (L) is bordered in blue colour.

The Divisions of Jammu and Kashmir: Kashmir (green), Jammu (orange) and Ladakh (blue)

The Jammu and Kashmir High Court on postal stamps of India

Apples of Kashmir are famous for their taste

Boteh from an Antique Kashmiri Dochalla Shawl

Inauguration of the first Khelo India Winter Games

Jammu and Kashmir is a region administered by India as a union territory and consisting of the southern portion of the larger Kashmir region, which has been the subject of a dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947, and between India and China since 1962.

- Jammu and Kashmir (union territory)

There are currently eight union territories in India, namely Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Chandigarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Lakshadweep and Puducherry.

- Union territory

After the Government of India repealed the special status accorded to Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 of the Indian constitution in 2019, the Parliament of India passed the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, which contained provisions that dissolved the state and reorganised it into two union territories – Jammu and Kashmir in the west and Ladakh in the east, with effect from 31 October 2019.

- Jammu and Kashmir (state)

The act re-constituted the former state of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories, Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, with effect from 31 October 2019.

- Jammu and Kashmir (union territory)

The act contains provisions to reconstitute the state of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories, one to be eponymously called Jammu and Kashmir, and the other Ladakh on 31 October 2019.

- Union territory

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Ladakh

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The empire of Kyide Nyimagon divided among his three sons, c. 930 CE. The border between Ladakh/Maryul and Guge-Purang is shown in a thin dotted line, north of Gartok

Royal drinking scene at Alchi Monastery, Ladakh, circa 1200 CE. The king wears a decorated Qabā', of Turco-Persian style. It is similar to [[:File:Royal drinking scene at the entrance of the western monastery at Manguy, 11th to 13th century CE.jpg|another royal scene]] at nearby Mangyu Monastery.

Jama Masjid of Leh next to the Leh Palace

The empire of kings Tsewang Namgyal and Jamyang Namgyal, about 1560–1600 CE

Cham dance during Dosmoche festival in Leh Palace

The disputed territory of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir: divided between Pakistan (green), India (blue) and China (yellow)

Ladakh (L) shown in the wider Kashmir region

The confluence of the Indus (flowing left-to-right) and Zanskar (coming in from top) rivers.

The black-necked crane comes to India every year for breeding. Photograph has been taken at Tso Kar, Ladakh.

Sul-ma, woman's woollen dress (detail), Ladakh, late 19th-early 20th century

First ever Khelo India Winter Games in Ladakh

Ladakhi Perak Headdress courtesy the Wovenosuls collection

Indian Astronomical Observatory near Leh

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

Statue of Maitreya at Likir Monastery, Leh district

Trees nestled in front of the Himalayas near Leh

Carved stone tablets, each with the inscription "Om Mani Padme Hum" along the paths of Zanskar

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.

Prior to that, it was part of the Jammu and Kashmir state.

A map of the disputed Kashmir region showing the new Indian-administered union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.

The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019

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The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019 is an act of the parliament of India containing provisions to reconstitute the Indian-administered state of Jammu and Kashmir, a part of the larger region of Kashmir which has been the subject of dispute among India, Pakistan, and China since 1947, into two Indian-administered union territories (UTs) called Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh, and becoming effective on 31 October 2019.