Aksai Chin

English Aksai Chin,Aksai Chin Lake thumb|A map of Aksai Chin (the largest/northernmost of the areas in red). Alternative forms en Aksai-chin lake en Aksayqin Etymology First attested in the mid 1800s.en 2003 Hriday Nath Kaul India China Boundary in Kashmir Gyan Books A sketch of 1862 based on his information had practically no details south of the Kuen Lun but had Aksai Chin written across it. This appears to be the first use of the Turkish name, Aksai Chin, in an official document. en ug ﺋﺎﻗﺴﺎﻱ چۆل / ug Aqsai Chöl / ug ақсай чөл, with the word "chin" being a corrupted transliteration of ug چۆل,George L. van Driem 25 May 2021 Ethnolinguistic Prehistory: The Peopling of the World from the Perspective of Language, Genes and Material Culture BRILL 53 978-90-04-44837-7 https://books.google.com/books?id=6EswEAAAQBAJ ultimately en trk - 1. See Aksai Chin#Name Pronunciation en /ˌɑːksaɪ ˈtʃɪn/ en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Aksai Chin.wav Southern England Proper noun 1 A cold desert plain in Central Asia divided between China and India en 1868 Albert M. Verchere Kashmir, the Western Himalaya and the Afghan Mountains https://archive.org/details/journalofasiati361867asia/ w:Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal XXXVI 1016373343 111 https://archive.org/details/journalofasiati361867asia/page/111/ The bed is not limited to the belt of country situated between Ser and Mer (Snowy Peak Range) chain and the Kailas chain. It is well developed in Rodok, near the Pang Chong Lake and up to the foot of the Korakoram chain, and it is very probable that the great Desert of Aksai Chin is a similar bed. en 1874 Keith Johnston The Surface Zones of the Globe https://archive.org/details/b21979224/ W. & A. K. Johnston 9025830 37 https://archive.org/details/b21979224/page/37/ In the basin which lies immediately eastward of the valley of the head stream of the Indus, is the Aksai Chin, or White desert, concerning which, however, little more is known to Europeans than the name. en 1904 w:M. A. Stein A Journey of Geographical and Archaeological Exploration in Chinese Turkestan Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution 1903 https://archive.org/details/annualreportofbo1903smith/ Washington, D.C. w:Government Printing Office 759 https://archive.org/details/annualreportofbo1903smith/page/759/ In a grand mountain mass raising its glacier-crowned head in solitary splendor to the southeast, it was impossible to mistake the "Kuen-luen peak, No. 5," already triangulated from the Ladak side (pl. II). Behind this great mountain, for which the tables supplied by the survey department indicated a height of 23,890 feet, to the south and southeast there was to be seen a magnificent line of high snowy peaks marking the watershed toward the westernmost portion of the Aksai-chin plateau of Tibet. on en 1964 w:Alastair Lamb The China-India Border https://archive.org/details/chinaindiaborder0000unse/ w:Oxford University Press 226153454 7 https://archive.org/details/chinaindiaborder0000unse/page/7/ In this sector there are really two quite distinct disputes. The first is the issue of Aksai Chin, the desolate high wastes of the extreme north-east of Kashmir, across which the Chinese have built a motor road linking western Tibet with Sinkiang....The bulk of the contested area lies in the Aksai Chin region. South of the Panggong lake there are a number of contested points, near Chushul and at Demchok on the Indus for example. The Changchenmo serves as a connecting region between the Chinese claims in Aksai Chin and those south of Panggong lake. A part of the disputed Kashmir region administered by China. en 1972 Theodore Shabad China's Changing Map https://archive.org/details/chinaschangingma0000unse/ New York w:Frederick A. Praeger 71-178868 482667885 7 https://archive.org/details/chinaschangingma0000unse/page/7/ In the western sector, the Chinese-Indian frontier dispute involves mainly the Aksai Chin area of Ladakh. Long limited to conflicting cartographic claims, the Aksai Chin issue flared in the 1950’s when the Chinese encroached on the area and upgraded a traditional caravan route between Sinkiang and Tibet across the Aksai Chin to a motor road, inaugurated in 1957. The Chinese were shown to be in actual control of Aksai Chin in the late 1950’s, and they retained control after the brief Indian-Chinese border war of November, 1962. en 2011 w:Henry Kissinger w:On China https://archive.org/details/onchina00kiss_0/ New York w:Penguin Press 978-1-59420-271-1 2011009265 1025648355 186 https://archive.org/details/onchina00kiss_0/page/186/ When India proclaimed its independence from Britain, it did not proclaim its independence from British territorial claims. It included the Aksai Chin territory as well as the line demarcated by McMahon on all of its maps. en 2021 March Freddie Wilkinson A Line in the Mountains https://archive.org/details/edg-ng-2021/edg%20NG%202021-03/ w:National Geographic 112 https://archive.org/details/edg-ng-2021/edg%20NG%202021-03/page/112/ Then in 1962, Chinese forces seized the Aksai Chin, a high desert region in the eastern corner of Kashmir, which further muddled the border question. en 25 October 2024 China confirms progress in border de-escalation pact with India after key talks w:EFE https://web.archive.org/web/20250726214601/https://efe.com/en/latest-news/2024-10-25/china-confirms-progress-in-border-de-escalation-pact-with-india-after-key-talks/ https://efe.com/en/latest-news/2024-10-25/china-confirms-progress-in-border-de-escalation-pact-with-india-after-key-talks/ July 26, 2025 https://archive.ph/SduBS The countries also have longstanding disputes over territories such as Aksai Chin, administered by China but claimed by India, and regions within Arunachal Pradesh, claimed by China but governed by India. en lake county/Hotan County prefecture/Hotan autonomous region/Xinjiang c/China part of the disputed Aksai Chin. en 1922 w:Sven Hedin Southern Tibet https://archive.org/details/southerntibetdis07hedi/ Stockholm 1227360602 5 https://archive.org/details/southerntibetdis07hedi/page/221/ This pass is described as situated in the Kisil-korum Range, which is a branch from the Kara-tagh Range. The next day they arrived at the great lake Aksáe Chin, 16,620 feet, although I cannot make out what particular lake he means. on en 1930 June Emil Trinkler Emil Trinkler Explorations in the Eastern Karkoram and in the Western Kunlun w:The Geographical Journal LXXV 6 https://archive.org/details/sim_geographical-journal_1930-06_75_6/ 0016-7398 905927071 510 https://archive.org/details/sim_geographical-journal_1930-06_75_6/page/510/ On the southern shore of the Aksai Chin lake we left our big luggage behind us in a depot. Our next goal was the Khitai Dawan, whence we could reach the Upper Kara-Kash. Leaving Sir Aurel Stein’s route of 1908 to the north, we crossed the brown mountains separating the Aksai Chin lake from the salt marshes in the west, which had been seen by Johnson in 1865. Translations part of Kashmir administered by China Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 阿克賽欽 Ākèsàiqīn Hindi: hi अक्साई चिन Japanese: ja アクサイチン Akusai Chin Persian: Classical Persian: fa-cls اَقْصیٰ چِین Iranian Persian: fa-ira اَقْصیٰ چین Portuguese: pt Aksai Chin m Russian: ru Аксайчи́н Spanish: es Aksai Chin Tibetan: bo Urdu: ur اکسائی چن aksāī cin Uyghur: ug ئاقساي چىن See also en Ladakh References Further reading Aksai Chin, Aksai-chin, Aksayqin pn en 2008 Aksai Chin Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/ 2nd 1 New York Columbia University Press 978-0-231-14554-1 2008009181 212893637 52 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/page/52/ 1 en Places in India Portuguese Etymology pt en Aksai Chin, in turn pt ug ﺋﺎﻗﺴﺎﻱ چۆل 1 / ug Aqsai Chöl / ug ақсай чөл, with the word "chin" being a corrupted transliteration of ug چۆل,George L. van Driem 25 May 2021 Ethnolinguistic Prehistory: The Peopling of the World from the Perspective of Language, Genes and Material Culture BRILL 53 978-90-04-44837-7 https://books.google.com/books?id=6EswEAAAQBAJ ultimately pt trk - 1. See Aksai Chin#Name Proper noun m pt macroregion macroregion/Kashmir governed by c/China Aksai Chin References