Leh was the capital of the Himalayan kingdom of Ladakh, now the Leh District in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, India.
Leh, a high-desert city in the Himalayas, is the capital of the Leh region in northern India’s Jammu and Kashmir state. Itwas the capital of theHimalayankingdom ofLadakh.The town is dominated by the ruinedLeh Palace, the former mansion of the royal family of Ladakh, built in the same style and about the same time as thePotala Palace-the chief residence of theDalai Lamauntil the14th Dalai Lamafled toDharamsala,India, during the1959 Tibetan uprising.Leh was an important stopover on trade routes along theIndusValley betweenTibetto the east,Kashmirto the west and also between India and China for centuries.