Back وادی چهوربت Persian चोरबत घाटी Hindi Chorbat valo IO சோர்பத் பள்ளத்தாக்கு Tamil وادی چھوربٹ Urdu
Chorbat Valley | |
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  Chorbat Valley Kashmir | |
| Coordinates: 34°55′48″N 76°45′47″E / 34.930°N 76.763°E | |
| Country | Pakistan & India |
| Province | Gilgit-Baltistan & Ladakh |
| District | Ghanche & Leh |
| Tehsil | Khaplu & Nubra |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 20,000 |
Chorbat Valley (Urdu: وادی چھوربٹ, Balti: ཆོར་བད, romanized: chor bad) is a section of the Shyok river valley divided between Pakistan-administered Gilgit-Baltistan and Indian-administered Ladakh. The Pakistan-administered portion is in the Khaplu tehsil of Ghanche District in Gilgit–Baltistan, and the Indian-administered portion is in the Nubra tehsil, Leh district of Ladakh. Chorbat stretches from the edge of Khaplu to the Chalunka village of Nubra.[1]
The Khan of Chorbat moved his capital from Siksa (originally called "Chorbat") to Turtuk in the 18th century. These two villages (now in Pakistan and India respectively) are the largest villages of the Chorbat region.
- ^ Gazetteer of Kashmir and Ladak (1890), p. 274: 'The most easterly ilaka of the wazarat of Skardu. "It extends along the Shyok river from Chulanka, on the frontier of Ladak, to Dah (or Dau), on the boundary of Khapalu, a distance of 44 miles."'