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Baltistan
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English
Etymology
From en ur بلتستان baltistān.
Proper noun
en Q805804 A very mountainous region just to the south of K2, located between China, India and Pakistan; most of the region is de-facto governed by Pakistan as Gilgit–Baltistan.
en w:National Geographic 1987 October 172 4 Baltistan: The 20th Century Comes to Shangri-la Galen Rowell 526 For centuries the Karakorams and Himalayas so insulated Baltistan that the country became a cultural fossil—a timeless imprint of great civilizations that had touched there.
See also
en Kashmir
Anagrams
en aabilnstt antiblast