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2 days ago · The Himalayas are bordered to the northwest by the mountain ranges of the Hindu Kush and the Karakoram and to the north by the high and vast Plateau of Tibet. The width of the Himalayas from south to north varies between 125 and 250 miles (200 and 400 km).
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2 days ago · The Himalayan mountain chain and the adjacent Tibetan Plateau together form one of the world’s major ... The Lesser Himalaya ranges from the lower boundary of the dark forests skirting the ...
2 days ago · Coordinates: 35°N 71°E. Hindu Kush (top right) and its extending mountain ranges like Selseleh-ye Safīd Kūh or Koh-i-Baba to the west. The Hindu Kush is an 800-kilometre-long (500 mi) mountain range on the Iranian Plateau in Central and South Asia to the west of the Himalayas.
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2 days ago · No, the Pamir Plateau and the Tibetan Plateau are not the same things. At the western end of the Himalayan Plateau is a region called the Pamir alpine desert and tundra which is a mountainous region located where the Himalayas, Karakoram, Hindu Kush, Kunlun, and Tian Shan mountains meet.
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3 days ago · The 3,120 km (1,940 mi) river rises in mountain springs northeast of Mount Kailash in Western Tibet, flows northwest through the disputed region of Kashmir, bends sharply to the left after the Nanga Parbat massif, and flows south-by-southwest through Pakistan, before emptying into the Arabian Sea near the port city of Karachi.
5 days ago · These include the Cascade-Sierra Nevada and Rockies in North America, the Andes in South America, the Alpine system in Europe, the Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau in Asia, the East African Highland, and the mountain backbones of Central America, Borneo, New Guinea, and New Zealand. Where are climate zones located?
4 days ago · The study area is certainly located in the Bayankala Basin, which is located in the northeast of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. It is bounded by the Muzitag-Kunlun-Animaqing suture belt in the north, the East-Kunlun-West-Qinling orogenic belt, the West-Jinwulan-Yushu-Jinshajiang and Qiangtang-Qamdu suture belt in the south, and the Longmenshan tectonic belt and the Yangtze River landmass in the ...
