Chiktan or Chigtan (Wylie: cig tan, THL: chik ten) is a village in Kargil district, Ladakh, India.

[2] Tibetologist A. H. Francke, who translated the Ladakh Chronicles, states that there were only two principalities in Purig (the northern Kargil district), in historical times, based at Chiktan and Kartse (Sankoo) respectively.

North of the Srinagar-Leh Highway lie the ruins of Chiktan fortress, said to be taller and older than Leh Palace.

Following the designs of architect and carpenter Shinkhen Chandan, the castle used timber to support the ceilings of the structure as well as to frame the doors and windows.

Large portions of the outer walls have collapsed, partially due to the removal of stone in the mid 20th century for a local government hospital which was sanctioned and budgeted for the royal family to construct, but the father-in-law of the king decided to keep the money and use bricks from the fort Seeing this neglect, the people of the village started began to use the wood of the fort as resource also, which slowly destroyed it.