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Kashmir region Jammu and Kashmir, India: mountains Kotli Jammu and Kashmir, India: Wular Lake Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir: Jhelum River Karakoram Range: K2 (Mount Godwin Austen) Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India: Raghunath temple complex Palace of the kings of Ladakh in Leh, India
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Kashmir region
Jammu and Kashmir, India: mountains
Kotli
Jammu and Kashmir, India: Wular Lake
Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir: Jhelum River
Karakoram Range: K2 (Mount Godwin Austen)
Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India: Raghunath temple complex
Palace of the kings of Ladakh in Leh, India
administrative division of Kashmir
Vale of Kashmir
Two distressed people sit amid ruins; behind them is a partitioned, color-coded map of India overlaid on destroyed urban buildings.
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