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The Himalayas, or Himalaya (/ˌhɪməˈleɪə, hɪˈmɑːləjə/); Sanskrit: himá (हिम 'snow') and ā-laya (आलय 'abode, receptacle, dwelling'), is a mountain range in South and East Asia separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. The range has many of Earth's highest peaks, including the highest, Mount Everest, at the border between Nepal and China. The Himalayas include over fifty mountains exceeding 7,200 m (23,600 ft) in elevation, including ten of the fourteen 8,000-metre peaks. By contrast, the highest peak outside Asia (Aconcagua, in the Andes) is 6,961 m (22,838 ft) tall.[1]
Himalayas
Mount Everest as seen from Drukair2 PLW edit.jpg
Aerial view of Mount Everest and surrounding landscape
Highest point
Peak
Mount Everest, Nepal and Tibet (China)
Elevation
8,848.86 m (29,031.7 ft)
Coordinates
27°59′N 86°55′E
Dimensions
Length
2,400 km (1,500 mi)
Naming
Native name
Himālaya
Geography
Himalayas Map.png
The general location of the Himalayas mountain range (this map has the Hindu Kush in the Himalaya, not normally regarded as part of the core Himalayas).
Countries
Bhutan, China, India, Nepal and Pakistan
Continent
Asia
Geology
Orogeny
Alpine orogeny
Age of rock
Cretaceous-to-Cenozoic
Type of rock
Metamorphic, sedimentary
Aerial photograph of the Himalayas, Ladakh 02
Himalayas
Lifted by the subduction of the Indian tectonic plate under the Eurasian Plate, the Himalayan mountain range runs west-northwest to east-southeast in an arc 2,400 km (1,500 mi) long.[2] Its western anchor, Nanga Parbat, lies just south of the northernmost bend of the Indus river. Its eastern anchor, Namcha Barwa, is just west of the great bend of the Yarlung Tsangpo River (upper stream of the Brahmaputra River). The Himalayan range is bordered on the northwest by the Karakoram and the Hindu Kush ranges. To the north, the chain is separated from the Tibetan Plateau by a 50–60 km (31–37 mi) wide tectonic valley called the Indus-Tsangpo Suture.[3] Towards the south, the arc of the Himalaya is ringed by the very low Indo-Gangetic Plain.[4] The range varies in width from 350 km (220 mi) in the west (Pakistan) to 150 km (93 mi) in the east (Arunachal Pradesh).[5]
The general location of the Himalayas mountain range (this map has the Hindu Kush in the Himalaya, not normally regarded as part of the core Himalayas).