Le, or LEH, the walled capital of Ladakh (q.v.), stands 3 miles from the bank of the Indus, 11,538 feet above the sea. Pop. estimated at about 4000. Le is one of the chief markets of the trade between Tibet and Chinese Turkestan on the one hand and the Punjab on the other.
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