Zanskar district

Summary

Zanskar, Zahar (locally) or Zangskar, is a district and region in the Indian-administered union territory of Ladakh in the disputed Kashmir region. The administrative centre of Zanskar is Padum. Zanskar, together with the rest of Ladakh, was briefly a part of the kingdom of Western Tibet called Ngari Khorsum. Zanskar lies 250 km south of Kargil City on NH301.