About Gilgitbaltistan

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Gilgitbaltistan (گلگت بلتستان)
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Gilgit baltistan is Pakistan place. This is a beautiful Area and K.2 is famous of Ggilgit Baltistan. k.2  also know this is 2nd highest mountain in the all worlds. this mountain height is 8,611 metres and (28,251 ft ).It borders Azad Kasmir to the south, the province of Khyber paktunkhaw to the west,north are India, China border is near. and all place are green and beautiful place. all people spoken about the gilgit baltistan are paradise one part. 

Big cites.

    1-    Gligit: 
               this city is capital of Gilgit Baltistan. this is very beautiful city. Gilgit (urdou shina گلگت) is the  of within the Gilgit district of baltistan . The city of Gilgit constitutes atehnsel  within Gilgit District. The city's ancient name was Sargin, later to be known as Gilit, and it is still referred to asGilit or Sargin-Gilit by local people. In theBurushaski language, it is named Geeltand in Wakhi and Khowar it is called Gilt.Ghallata is considered its name in ancientSanskrit literature.
2- skardu:
               Skardu (Urdu: سکردو, Balti: ་་ from (Balti): skar do  "star stone, meteorite") is a city and capital of Skardu District, in Gilgit, Pakistan. Skardu is in the  (six miles) wide by (fourty kilometres)  long Skardu Valley, at the confluence of the Indus and the Shigar .Skardu is at an altitude of nearly 2,500 metres (8,202 feet) . The town is surrounded by grey-brown coloured mountains, which hide the 8,000 metre peaks of the nearby Karakaram range. There are three lakes in the vicinity.
3- Hunza:
             The Hunza langauge is (Burushaski and Urdu: ہنزہ‎) is a mountainous valley in the Gilgit–Baltistan region . The Hunza is situated north and west of the Hunza, at an elevation of around 2,500 metres (8,200 ft). The territory of Hunza is about 7,900 square kilometres.

History

 Gilgit Baltistan was part of the India and this time are part of pakistan.Gilgit baltistan    borders the wakhan Corridor of Afghanistan to the northwest, the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China to the north, Pakistan's Azad Kashmir to the southwest, Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to the west, and northeast and the Indian-administered state of Jammu and Kashmir to the southeast.

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