Editing Gilgit (section)

{{Short description|Capital city of Gilgit–Baltistan}}
{{Other uses}}
{{Use Pakistani English|date=March 2016}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2014}}
{{Infobox settlement
| name               = Gilgit
| official_name      = 
| native_name        = [[Shina language|Shina]]: {{Nastaliq|گلیٗت}} [[Urdu]]: {{Nastaliq|گلگت}}
| native_name_lang   = ur
| other_name         = 
| nickname           = 
| settlement_type    = City administered by Pakistan
| image_skyline      = {{Photomontage
| photo1a  = Gilgit City a View from Gilgit serena hotel.jpg
| photo2a  = The Central Imaamia Mosque Gilgit City, GB.jpg
| photo2b  = River Gilgit and the Gilgit City.jpg
| photo3a  = Gilgit waters.jpg
| size     = 270
| spacing                   = 1
| color_border              =black
| color                     =black
}}
| image_alt          = {{!}} photo3b = Passu, Gilgit Baltistan.jpg{{!}} photo2b = View of Rakaposhi from Jutial.jpg
| image_caption      = ''From top:''<br />City of Gilgit, Central Imaamia Mosque, [[Gilgit River]], [[Rakaposhi]] Mountain (South View)
| image_map1         = Kashmir region. LOC 2003626427 - showing sub-regions administered by different countries.jpg
| map_alt            = 
| map_caption1       = A map showing Pakistan-administered [[Gilgit-Baltistan]] shaded in [[sage (color)|sage]] in the disputed [[Kashmir]] region<ref name=tertiary-kashmir />
| image_map          = {{maplink|frame=yes|plain=yes|frame-width=300|frame-height=170|frame-align=center|zoom=4|type=point|title=Gilgit|marker=city|type2=shape|stroke-width2=2|stroke-color2=#808080}}
| map_caption        = Interactive map of Gilgit
| coordinates        = {{coord|35|55|15|N|74|18|30|E|display=inline,title}}
| subdivision_type   = Administering country
| subdivision_name   = [[Pakistan]]
| subdivision_type1  = [[Administrative units of Pakistan|Adm. Unit]]
| subdivision_name1  = [[Gilgit–Baltistan]]
| subdivision_type2  = [[District]]
| subdivision_name2  = [[Gilgit District]]
| leader_title       = Commissioner
| leader_name        = Najeeb Alam (PAS)
| established_title  = 
| established_date   = 
| founder            = 
| government_type    = Divisional Administration
| governing_body     = 
| unit_pref          = Metric
| area_footnotes     = 
| area_rank          = 
| area_total_km2     = 
| elevation_footnotes = <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gilgitbaltistanscouts.gov.pk/geodemo.htm|title=Geography of Chitral|work=Chitralnews.com|access-date=2015-11-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304202635/http://www.gilgitbaltistanscouts.gov.pk/geodemo.htm|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| elevation_m        = 1500
| population_total   = 216,760
| population_as_of   = 1998
| population_rank    = 
| population_density_km2 = auto
| population_demonym = 
| population_footnotes = 
| demographics_type1 = Demographics
| demographics1_title1 = Language(s)
| demographics1_info1 = [[Urdu]],[[Shina language|Shina]]
| timezone1          = [[Pakistan Standard Time|PST]]
| utc_offset1        = +5:00
| postal_code_type   = [[Postal codes in Pakistan|Postal code]]
| postal_code        = 1571 – 1xx<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cellsaa.com/post-code-area/GILGIT|title=Post Codes|publisher=Pakistan Post Office|access-date=17 March 2015}}</ref>
| area_code          = +92
| registration_plate = 
| website            = 
| footnotes          = 
| module             = {{Infobox mapframe |wikidata=yes |zoom=16|coord={{WikidataCoord|display=i}}}}
| leader_title1      = Deputy Inspector General (DIG)
| leader_name1       = Hassan Raza Khan (PSP)
}}

'''Gilgit''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|ɡ|ɪ|l|ɡ|ɪ|t}}; [[Shina language|Shina]]: {{Nastaliq|گلیٗت}}; {{langx|ur|{{Nastaliq|گلگت}}}} {{IPA|ur|ˈɡɪlɡɪt|IPA}}) is a city in [[Pakistan]]i-administered [[Gilgit-Baltistan|Gilgit–Baltistan]] in the disputed [[Kashmir]] region.<ref name=tertiary-kashmir>The application of the term "administered" to the various regions of [[Kashmir]] and a mention of the Kashmir dispute is supported by the [[WP:TERTIARY|tertiary sources]] (a) through (d), reflecting [[WP:DUE|due weight]] in the coverage. Although "controlled" and "held" are also applied neutrally  to the names of the disputants or to the regions administered by them, as evidenced in sources (f) through (h) below, "held" is also considered politicized usage, as is the term "occupied," (see (i) below). <br />
(a) {{citation|title=Kashmir, region Indian subcontinent|publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica|url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Kashmir-region-Indian-subcontinent |accessdate=15 August 2019}} (subscription required) Quote: "Kashmir, region of the northwestern Indian subcontinent ... has been the subject of dispute between India and Pakistan since the partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947. The northern and western portions are administered by Pakistan and comprise three areas: Azad Kashmir, Gilgit, and Baltistan, the last two being part of a territory called the Northern Areas. Administered by India are the southern and southeastern portions, which constitute the state of Jammu and Kashmir but are slated to be split into two union territories.";<br /> (b) {{citation|last1=Pletcher|first1=Kenneth|title=Aksai Chin, Plateau Region, Asia|publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica|url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Aksai-Chin |accessdate=16 August 2019}} (subscription required) Quote: "Aksai Chin, Chinese (Pinyin) Aksayqin, portion of the Kashmir region, at the northernmost extent of the Indian subcontinent in south-central Asia. It constitutes nearly all the territory of the Chinese-administered sector of Kashmir that is claimed by India to be part of the Ladakh area of Jammu and Kashmir state."; <br /> (c) {{citation|chapter=Kashmir|title=Encyclopedia Americana|publisher=Scholastic Library Publishing|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l_cWAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA328|year=2006|isbn=978-0-7172-0139-6|page=328}} C. E Bosworth, University of Manchester Quote: "KASHMIR, kash'mer, the northernmost region of the Indian subcontinent, administered partlv by India, partly by Pakistan, and partly by China. The region has been the subject of a bitter dispute between India and Pakistan since they became independent in 1947"; <br /> (d) {{citation|last1=Osmańczyk|first1=Edmund Jan|title=Encyclopedia of the United Nations and International Agreements: G to M|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fSIMXHMdfkkC&pg=PA1191|year=2003|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-415-93922-5|pages=1191–}} Quote: "Jammu and Kashmir: Territory in northwestern India, subject to a dispute betw een India and Pakistan. It has borders with Pakistan and China." <br />(e) {{citation|last=Talbot|first=Ian|title=A History of Modern South Asia: Politics, States, Diasporas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eNg_CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA28|year=2016|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-19694-8|pages=28–29}} Quote: "We move from a disputed international border to a dotted line on the map that represents a military border not recognized in international law. The line of control separates the Indian and Pakistani administered areas of the former Princely State of Jammu and Kashmir."; <br />  (f) {{citation|title=Kashmir, region Indian subcontinent|publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica|url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Kashmir-region-Indian-subcontinent |accessdate=15 August 2019}} (subscription required) Quote: "... China became active in the eastern area of Kashmir in the 1950s and has controlled the northeastern part of Ladakh (the easternmost portion of the region) since 1962."; <br /> (g) {{citation|last=Bose|first=Sumantra|title=Kashmir: Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3ACMe9WBdNAC&pg=PA294|year=2009|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-02855-5|pages=294, 291, 293}} Quote: "J&K: Jammu and Kashmir. The former princely state that is the subject of the Kashmir dispute. Besides IJK (Indian-controlled Jammu and Kashmir. The larger and more populous part of the former princely state. It has a population of slightly over 10 million, and comprises three regions: Kashmir Valley, Jammu, and Ladakh.) and AJK ('Azad" (Free) Jammu and Kashmir. The more populous part of Pakistani-controlled J&K, with a population of approximately 2.5 million. AJK has six districts: Muzaffarabad, Mirpur, Bagh, Kodi, Rawalakot, and Poonch. Its capital is the town of Muzaffarabad. AJK has its own institutions, but its political life is heavily controlled by Pakistani authorities, especially the military), it includes the sparsely populated "Northern Areas" of Gilgit and Baltistan, remote mountainous regions which are directly administered, unlike AJK, by the Pakistani central authorities, and some high-altitude uninhabitable tracts under Chinese control." <br /> (h) {{citation|last=Fisher|first=Michael H.|title=An Environmental History of India: From Earliest Times to the Twenty-First Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kZVuDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA166|year=2018|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-11162-2|page=166}} Quote: "Kashmir’s identity remains hotly disputed with a UN-supervised “Line of Control” still separating Pakistani-held Azad (“Free”) Kashmir from Indian-held Kashmir."; <br /> (i) {{citation|last=Snedden|first=Christopher|title=Understanding Kashmir and Kashmiris|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5amKCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA10|year=2015|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-1-84904-621-3|page=10}} Quote:"Some politicised terms also are used to describe parts of J&K. These terms include the words 'occupied' and 'held'."</ref> It is the capital of the Gilgit-Baltistan region. The city is located in a broad [[valley]] near the confluence of the [[Gilgit River|Gilgit]] and the [[Hunza River|Hunza]] rivers. It is a major [[Tourism in Pakistan|tourist destination in Pakistan]], serving as a hub for [[Backpacking (hiking)|trekking]] and [[mountaineering]] expeditions in the [[Karakoram]] mountain range.

Gilgit was once a major centre for [[Buddhism]]; it was an important stop on the ancient [[Silk Road]], and today serves as a major junction along the [[Karakoram Highway]] with road connections to China as well as the Pakistani cities of [[Skardu]], [[Chitral]], [[Peshawar]], and [[Islamabad]]. Currently, it serves as a frontier station for the local tribal areas. The city's economic activity is mainly focused on [[agriculture]], with wheat, maize, and barley as the main produced crops.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Gilgit|title=Gilgit {{!}} Kashmir region, Indian subcontinent, Asia|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2019-06-20}}</ref>