a small independent and unexplored territory of Central Asia, on the southern declivity of the Hindu Koosh; having Little Tibet on the E., and Chitral on the W. It consists principally of one large valley, through which flows the river Gilgit, afterwards falling into the Indus in Lat. 35. 28. N., Long. 74. 28. E. There is also a village of the same name on the right bank of the stream in Lat. 35. 35. N., Long. 74. 15. E.