DRAS - COLDEST PLACE IN INDIA

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  • Dras in western Ladakh is the coldest place in India. It is also the second coldest place in the world after Siberia.
  • In the local dialect “Baltic” Dras means “Hell”.
  • Temperatures drop down to about -40 degrees Celsius in winters. Dras has an altitude of 3230 m and lies 60 km west of Kargil on the road to Srinagar.
  • The Dras valley starts from the base of the Zojila pass, the Himalayan gateway to Ladakh.
  • Dras is often called 'The Gateway to Ladakh'.
  • Inhabitants of Dras are of Dard descent, an Indo-Aryan race believed to have originally migrated to Ladakh from Central Asia. They speak Shina, a Dardic language.


SEE ALSO:

THE DEEPEST POINT ON LAND FOUND IN ANTARCTICA

HIGHEST MOUNTAIN PEAK IN WESTERN GHATS

HIGHEST MOUNTAIN PEAK IN INDIA



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