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Kashmir Division: Kashmir South and Kashmir North ; 13 per cent of the Muzaffarabad district. [5] Ladakh Division: Kargil and Leh districts. (Became the union territory of Ladakh on 31 October 2019.) The districts were reorganised by 1968, breaking up some of the larger districts. [6]
The Kashmir division is a revenue and administrative division of the Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region. [1] It comprises the Kashmir Valley , bordering the Jammu Division to the south and Ladakh to the east.
The southern districts of Azad Kashmir, which consist of the Bhimber, Kotli, and Mirpur districts have extremely hot weather in the summer and moderately cold weather in the winter. Azad Kashmir receives rainfall in both the winter and summer seasons, with Muzaffarabad being among the wettest areas of Azad Kashmir.
In March 2020, a three-member Delimitation Commission was formed, chaired by retired Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai, for the delimitation of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. [2] The final delimitation report was released on 5 May 2022 under which additional 6 seats were added to Jammu division and 1 seat to Kashmir division , taking the ...
In between Kashmir Valley to the north and the Daman Koh plains to the south, the Shivalik Range comprises most of the region of Jammu. The Pir Panjal Range, the Trikuta Hills and the low-lying Tawi River basin add diversity to the terrain of Jammu. The Pir Panjal range separates Jammu from the Kashmir Valley.
The Indian union territory of Ladakh consists of two districts, with the intention to create 5 new districts announced on 26th August 2024 [1]. Each district elects an autonomous district council. Until 31 October 2019, the districts of Kargil and Leh were part of the former state of Jammu and Kashmir.
It is one of the 20 districts of Jammu and Kashmir. Situated in the centre of the Kashmir Valley, it is the second-most populous district of the union territory after Jammu District as per the 2011 national census, [5] and is home to the summer capital city of Srinagar (with the city of Jammu serving as the territory's winter capital). [6]
The Kashmir valley is 100 km (62 mi) wide and 15,520.3 km 2 (5,992.4 sq mi) in area. [39] The Himalayas divide the Kashmir valley from the Tibetan plateau while the Pir Panjal range, which encloses the valley from the west and the south, separates it from the Punjab Plain of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. [40] Along the northeastern flank of the ...