• at 4,595 m above sea level, the fields at Korzok Monastery (pictured) in India have been called the highest cultivated land in the world?

Facts on topics related to Korzok Monastery

Kashmir

• India and Pakistan have expanded cross-border road and rail transport links, including across the disputed region of Kashmir?
• Manasbal Lake (pictured), with the sobriquet "the supreme gem of all Kashmir Lakes", is the deepest lake in the Kashmir valley?
• Operation Safed Sagar which was launched by the Indian Air Force to aid the Indian Army during the 2 month long Kargil War, was the first time air power was used on such a large scale in Kashmir since the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971?
• Kashmiriyat defines the way of life and identity of the Kashmiri people since medieval times, helping them preserve harmony amidst invasions of Kashmir?
• the 2008 Indian film Tahaan was the first to be filmed in the strife-torn region of Kashmir after a gap of 18 years?
• the Brindavan Gardens in Karnataka is a Mughal style garden having a design similar to that of Shalimar Gardens in Kashmir?
• the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad Bus runs across the Line of Control to connect the capitals of the Indian and Pakistani parts of the disputed region of Kashmir?

Jammu and Kashmir

• Kursha Monastery is the largest Buddhist monastery in the Zanskar region of eastern Jammu and Kashmir, India?
• Maharaja Gulab Singh, founder of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, was illiterate?
• Operation Gibraltar was the name given to the failed plan by Pakistan to infiltrate Jammu and Kashmir, India and start a rebellion and that it eventually sparked the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965?
• construction of Mughal Road in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir was opposed because it impeded the movement of the Markhor goat?
• from November to April every year Jammu is the capital of Jammu and Kashmir, the northernmost Indian state, and that during the summer Srinagar is the capital?
• not a single woman in the village of Kunan Poshpora in Kashmir received a marriage proposal within three years after the Indian Army launched a search and interrogation operation there in 1991?

Jammu (city)

• from November to April every year Jammu is the capital of Jammu and Kashmir, the northernmost Indian state, and that during the summer Srinagar is the capital?