Where exactly is Aksai Chin?

A. Near Leh

B. The north east of Jammu and Kashmir

C. Along the Zanskar mountains

D. South of the Siachen glaciers

In the northernmost portion of the Indian subcontinent in south-central Asia, Aksai Chin is an integral part of Indian territories. It is part of the Union territory of Ladakh ( earlier was part of Jammu & Kashmir state ) and lies in the north-east of Jammu and Kashmir which is now a Union territory. This region of Aksai Chin is claimed by China and thus creates a territory issue between both the countries. 

Geographically, Aksai Chin is an extension of the Tibet Plateau to the southwest. Aksai Chin consists largely of a high, isolated, inhospitable, and mostly uninhabitable plain with an average elevation of some 17,000 feet (5,180 metres), bordered by the Karakoram Range to the west and southwest and the Kunlun Mountains to the north and northeast. To the northwest, the landscape is more rocky, while in the east, there is internal drainage into small alkaline lakes. The climate is cold and dry, with the city getting much of the little precipitation occurring in the July and August summer months.