Baltistan (Urdu: بلتستان‎, Balti: སྦལ་ཏི་སྟཱན), also known as Baltiyul or Little Tibet (Balti: སྦལ་ཏི་ཡུལ་།), is a mountainous region of Pakistan near the Karakoram mountains just south of K2 (the world's second-highest mountain). Baltistan is bordered by Gilgit to the west, Xinjiang (China) to the north, Ladakh to the southeast, and the Kashmir Valley to the southwest.[1][2] Its average altitude is over 3,350 metres (10,990 ft).