Leh was the capital of the Himalayan
kingdom of Ladakh
, now the Leh district
in the Indian state
of Jammu and Kashmir
. Leh district
, with an area of 45,110 km2, is the second largest district in the country, after Kutch
, Gujarat
(in terms of area). The town is dominated by the ruined Leh Palace
, the former mansion of the royal family of Ladakh, built in the same style and about the same time as the Potala Palace
-the chief residence of the Dalai Lama
until the 14th Dalai Lama
fled to Dharamsala
, India
, during the 1959 Tibetan uprising
. Leh is at an altitude of 3524 metres (11,562 ft), and connects via National Highway 1D
to Srinagar
in the southwest and to Manali
in the south via the Leh-Manali Highway
. In 2010, Leh
was sorely damaged by the sudden floods caused by a cloud burst
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