Himalayan mountain range

Annapurna Range

Himalayan mountain range - I n south-central Asia, the ongoing collision between the Indian Plate and the Tibetian plate has raised up the world's most mountainous area, the Himalayan orogenic belt. The area began rising in the last 50 million years ago and continues to rise at about 5 mm a year as the collision continues. Since both plates were covered with lightweight continental crust, which tends to float on top of the heavier mantle layer, crust from both plates was crumpled together. In addition, the ocean floor between the two moving continents was swept up and stacked between them. The top of Mount Everest itself is sedimentary rock from the ocean's bottom.

The Himalayan mountain range contains the world's greatest accumulation of ice outside the Arctic and Antarctic. The world’s hundred tallest peaks are nearly all in the Himalayas, Karakoram, Pamirs, or the Hindu Kush. (A few exceptions are also in southern Asia, in China's Hengduan Mountains and Kunlun Shan.) The world's fourteen 8000-meter peaks are all in the Himalayas proper or the Karakoram.

The Himalayan mountain range extend over 1,500 miles (2,400 km) from the Indus Valley in the west to the Brahmaputra Valley in the east. They are between 100 and 250 kilometres wide. Himalaya range from the Indus River in Pakistan across northern India, Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan.

Entities the range within includes Pakistan, China, India, Nepal, and Tibet. The world's highest peak, Mount Everest, and other "near−highest" peaks are part of the Greater Himalayas range.

The Himalayan mountain range (meaning "home of snow"), stretching from Pakistan to Bhutan, separates the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. The world's highest peak, Mount Everest, at 29,029 feet, is in the Himalayas, as are scores of massive, beautiful, dangerous peaks climbers have given their lives to ascend. Their snowfields supply great rivers: the Ganges, the Indus, and the Brahmaputra.

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Top Mountain Range in the world

SL No.	Name	Location	Area	Highest peaks
1	Himalayan Ranges	Asia	2400km	Mt. Everest 8848m
2	Karakoram Ranges	Asia	500km	K2 8611M
3	Hindu Kush Ranges	Asia	950Km	Tirich Mir 7708M
4	Pamir ranges	Asia	300Km	Ismoil Somoni Peak7495m
5	Tien Shan	Asia	1300Km	Jengish Chokusu 7439m
6	Andes	South America	7000Km	Aconcagua 6961m
7	Alaska Range	North America	650Km	Mount Mckinley 6194m
8	The Caucasus range	Europ/Asia	1100km	Mount Elbrus 5642M
9	Alps	Europe	1200km	Mont Blanc 4810m
10	Transantarctic range	Antarctica	3500km	Mount Kirkpatrick 4528
11	Rockies	North America	4800km	Mount Elbert 4401m
12	Great Dividing Range	Australia	3500km	Mount Kosciuszko 2228m
13	Urals	Asia/Europe	2500km	Mount Narodnaya 1895m

Fourteen 8000 meter peaks 

SL No.	Name	Height	Range Name	Country
1	Mt. Everest	8848.86m	Mahalangur range	Nepal/China
2	Mt K2	8611m	Karakoram range	Pakistan/China
3	Mt. Kanchanjungha	8586m	Kanchanjungha	Nepal/India
4	Mt. Lhotse	8516m	Mahalangur range	Nepal
5	Mt. Makalu	8485m	Makalu range	Nepal
6	Mt. Cho oyu	8201m	Mahlangur range	Nepal
7	Mt. Dhaulagiri	8167m	Dhaulagiri range	Nepal
8	Mt. Manaslu	8163m	Manaslu range	Nepal
9	Mt. Nanga parpat	8126	Central	Pakistan
10	Mt. Annapurna I	8091m	Annapurna range	Nepal
11	Mt. Gasherbrum I	8080m	Karakoram range	Pakistan
12	Mt. Broad peak	8051m	Karakoram range	Pakistan
13	Mt. Gasherbrum II	8034m	Karakoram range	Pakistan
14	Mt. Shishapangma	8027m	Jugal	China

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