| Kongka Pass | |
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| Standard Tibetan: དགུན་ཁ་ལ | |
  Kongka Pass  Kongka Pass  Kongka Pass | |
| Elevation | 5,171 m (16,965 ft)[1] |
| Location | India–China border |
| Range | Karakoram |
| Coordinates | 34°20′06″N 79°02′07″E / 34.335°N 79.0353°E |
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| Traditional Chinese | 空喀山口 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 空喀山口 | ||||||
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The Kongka Pass or Kongka La (Tibetan: དགུན་ཁ་ལ, Wylie: dgun kha la, THL: gün kha la[2]) is a low mountain pass on the Line of Actual Control between India and China in eastern Ladakh. It lies on a spur of the Karakoram range that intrudes into the Chang Chenmo Valley adjacent to the disputed Aksai Chin region. China claimed the location as its border in a 1956 map, and attacked an Indian patrol party in 1959 killing ten policemen and apprehending ten others. Known as the Kongka Pass incident, the event was a milestone in the escalation of the border dispute between the two countries.[3]
- ^ "Kongka La". GeoNames. Retrieved 18 September 2013.
- ^ "Ngari prefecture". Geographical names of Tibet AR (China). Institute of the Estonian Language. 3 June 2018. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
- ^ Hoffmann, Perceived Hostility and the Indian Reaction (1973).