Demchok (Tibetan: ཌེམ་ཆོག, Wylie: bde mchog, THL: dem chok, ZYPY: dêmqog),[1][a] was described by a British boundary commission in 1847 as a village lying on the border between the Kingdom of Ladakh and the Tibet.

It was a "hamlet of half a dozen huts and tents", divided into two parts by a rivulet which formed the boundary between the two states.

Demchok (Sanskrit: Cakrasaṃvara) is the name of a Buddhist Tantric deity, who is believed to reside on the Mount Kailas, and whose imagery parallels that of Shiva in Hinduism.

[6][28][29] According to Alexander Cunningham, "A large stone was then set up as a permanent boundary between the two countries, the line of demarcation drawn from the village of Dechhog [Demchok] to the hill of Karbonas.

"[30][31] British boundary commissioner Henry Strachey visited Demchok in 1847 on the borders of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir.

He described the village as: [Demchok] is a hamlet of half a dozen huts and tents, not permanently inhabited, divided by a rivulet (entering the left bank of the Indus) which constitutes the boundary of this quarter between Gnari ... [in Tibet] ... and Ladakh.

[34] However, Indian commentators state that the revenue records from the period of the survey show that the Demchok area was administered by Ladakh.