Kashmir

Jammu and Kashmir is a state in Northern India, granted autonomy under article 370 of Indian constitution.It is located mostly in the Himalayan mountains and shares a border with the states of Himachal Pradesh and Punjab to the south. Jammu and Kashmir has an international border with China in the north and east, and the Line of Control separates it from the Pakistani controlled territories of Azad Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan in the west and northwest respectively.Formerly a part of the erstwhile Princely State of Kashmir and Jammu, which governed the larger historic region of Kashmir, the region is the subject of a territorial conflict among China, India and Pakistan. Pakistan, which claims the territory as disputed,refers to it alternatively as Indian occupied Kashmir or Indian held Kashmir, whereas some international agencies such as the United Nations, call it Indian administered Kashmir.The regions under the control of Pakistan are referred to as Pakistan occupied Kashmir within India, as Azad Jammu and Kashmir in Pakistan, and as Pakistan administered Kashmir or Pakistan controlled Kashmir generally.