The world's most militarized border looks different depending whose map you open
India, Pakistan, and China each control part of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, and each draws the boundary differently. There's no neutral way to render it — every map is a small political statement.
Entirely Indian
Indian government maps show the whole of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh with a solid, undifferentiated border — India's constitution treats it as fully Indian territory, no exceptions shown.
Marked contested
Pakistani maps draw the region with a dotted boundary rather than a solid one — a deliberate cartographic signal that its status remains unsettled, not incorporated into either country.
Dashed Line of Control
Most international maps draw the 1972 Line of Control as a dashed border — the de facto military boundary, presented as a ceasefire line rather than a settled international one.
Three countries currently administer pieces of the old princely state. India holds and governs the largest share (Jammu, the Kashmir Valley, and Ladakh); Pakistan administers Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan in the west and north; China holds Aksai Chin in the east, ceded to it by Pakistan in a 1963 border agreement that India does not recognize. India and Pakistan have fought three wars substantially over the territory since 1947, and the current line dividing Indian- and Pakistani-administered areas — the Line of Control — was set by the 1972 Simla Agreement, not by either side's claimed border.
Indian law (the Cartography Act's 2011 rules) treats any map that shows Kashmir's boundary differently as illegal to sell or distribute in India — one reason global map providers often show one boundary style inside India and a different one everywhere else.
Sources: 1972 Simla Agreement; 1963 Sino-Pakistan Boundary Agreement; Survey of India Cartography guidelines. Country shapes: Natural Earth. Kashmir boundary: dissolved from Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh union-territory district boundaries (india-maps-data, GADM-derived), simplified.