Rudok, also spelt Rutok and Rutog, more properly Rudok Dzong (Tibetan: རུ་ཐོག་དགོན, Wylie: Ru thogs rdzong), is a town that served as the historical capital of the Rudok area in Western Tibet on the frontier with Ladakh. In the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, it is described as being "picturesquely situated" on the side of a hill standing isolated in the plain near the east end of Lake Pangong.
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