Demchok sector

<p>The Demchok sector is a disputed area named after the villages of <a href="/facts/Demchok%2c_Ladakh/q2pGRBUe">Demchok in Ladakh</a> and <a href="/facts/Demchok%2c_Ngari_Prefecture/GPx6Hg08">Demchok in Tibet</a>, situated near the confluence of the <a href="/facts/Charding_Nullah/LTDt3yXC">Charding Nullah</a> and <a href="/facts/Indus_River/7vTRHA4t">Indus River</a>. It is a part of the greater <a href="/facts/Sino-Indian_border_dispute/c8QSbbqv">Sino-Indian border dispute</a> between China and India. Both China and India claim the disputed region, with a <a href="/facts/Line_of_Actual_Control/ND1Dl6yn">Line of Actual Control</a> between the two nations situated along the Charding Nullah.
</p><p>The Charding Nullah was mentioned by the name "Lhari stream" in a treaty between the <a href="/facts/Kingdom_of_Ladakh/coUxnI5J">Kingdom of Ladakh</a> and the <a href="/facts/Ganden_Phodrang/j9lErVx8">Ganden Phodrang</a> government of <a href="/facts/Tibet/NQChzGo9">Tibet</a> in 1684 and stated as the boundary between the two regions. British surveys placed the border in 1847 between the <a href="/facts/Jammu_and_Kashmir_(princely_state)/ykEk9fTb">princely state of Jammu and Kashmir</a> and <a href="/facts/Tibet_under_Qing_rule/K0dyn0NE">Qing Tibet</a> on the stream, while British maps from 1868 onwards placed the border downstream and west of <a href="/facts/Demchok_(historical_village)/yPjE5EyM">Demchok</a>. After independence in 1947, India claimed the southern watershed of the river (roughly 3 miles southeast of Demchok) as its boundary, which has been contested by the People's Republic of China whose claims coincide with the British maps. The two countries fought <a href="/facts/Sino-Indian_War/UPF3RfjN">a brief war in 1962</a>, after which the Demchok region has remained divided between the two nations across a <a href="/facts/Line_of_Actual_Control/ND1Dl6yn">Line of Actual Control</a>.
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Demchok sector