Question

what is the range of himalaya?

Answer 1

The Himalayan range is home to the planet's highest peaks, including the highest, Mount Everest. The Himalayas include over a hundred mountainsexceeding 7,200 metres (23,600 ft) in elevation. By contrast, the highest peak outside Asia – Aconcagua, in theAndes – is 6,961 metres (22,838 ft) tall.[1]

The Himalayas are spread across five countries: Bhutan, India, Nepal,People's Republic of China, andPakistan, with the first three countries having sovereignty over most of the range.[2] The Himalayan range is bordered on the northwest by theKarakoram and Hindu Kush ranges, on the north by the Tibetan Plateau, and on the south by the Indo-Gangetic Plain. Some of the world's major rivers, the Indus, the Ganges, and theTsangpo-Brahmaputra, rise in the Himalayas, and their combineddrainage basin is home to some 600 million people. The Himalayas have profoundly shaped the cultures ofSouth Asia; many Himalayan peaks are sacred in Hinduism and Buddhism.

Lifted by the subduction of the Indian tectonic plate under the Eurasian Plate, the Himalayan range runs, west-northwest to east-southeast, in an arc 2,400 kilometres (1,500 mi) long. Its western anchor, Nanga Parbat, lies just south of the northernmost bend of Indus river, its eastern anchor, Namcha Barwa, just west of the great bend of the Tsangpo river. The range varies in width from 400 kilometres (250 mi) in the west to 150 kilometres (93 mi) in the east.