Leh ()  is the joint capital and largest town of the union territory of Ladakh in India. Leh, located in the Leh district, was also the historical capital of the Kingdom of Ladakh, the seat of which was in the Leh Palace, the former residence of the royal family of Ladakh, built in the same style and about the same time as the Potala Palace in Tibet. Leh is at an altitude of 3,524 m (11,562 ft), and is connected via National Highway 1 to Srinagar in the southwest and to Manali in the south via the Leh-Manali Highway.


Leh is the second coldest inhabited place in India after Siberia. The town has a population of about 27,000 people and is situated at the foot of the Himalayan mountains, surrounded by several high peaks including Namche Barwa (7,756 m) and Gyala Peri (6,946 m). It lies on an ancient trade route connecting Ladakh to Yarkand via Lhasa.
The main language spoken in Leh is Ladakhi (one of two Tibetan languages), which belongs to the Tibetan branch of Indo-European languages.

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