Map of the Line of Actual Control and its three sectors (IMAGE)

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Map of the Line of Actual Control and its three sectors

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In a 2005 agreement, India and China combined sectors 1 and 2 into the western sector (from Karakoram pass to Mount Gya). The agreement separated sector 3 into a Sikkim sector and an eastern sector (along the state of Arunachal Pradesh on the India side). The middle sector from Mount Gya to the border with Nepal is the least controversial part of the boundary.

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