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Encyclopedia Britannica



LEH

This article appears in Volume V16, Page 384 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LAP-LEO
LEH , the
capital
  of Ladakh, India, situated 4 M. from the right bank of the upper Indus 11,500 ft. above the sea, 243 M. from Srinagar and 482 in. from Yarkand. It is the
great
  emporium of the trade which passes between India, Chinese Turkestan and Tibet. Here meet the routes leading from the central Asian khanates, Kashgar, Yarkand,
Khotan
  and Lhasa. The two
chief
  roads from Leh to India pass via Srinagar and through the Kulu valley respectively. Under a commercial treaty with the maharaja of Kashmir, a British officer is deputed to Leh to regulate and
control
  the traders and the traffic, conjointly with the
governor
  appointed by the Kashmir state. Lying upon the western border of Tibet, Leh has formed the starting-point of many an adventurous journey into that country, the best-known route being that called the Janglam, the
great
  trade route to Lhasa and China, passing by the Manasarowar lakes and the Mariam La pass into the valley of the Tsanpo. Pop. (1901) 2079. A Moravian mission has long been established here, with an efficient little
hospital
 
    See Also:
. There is also a meteorological
observatory
 , the most elevated in
Asia
 , where the
average
  mean temperature ranges from 19.3 in January to 64.4 in July. The annual rainfall is only 3 in.


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