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The Himalayas, or
Himalaya, (/ˌhɪməˈleɪ.ə/ or /hɪˈmɑːləjə/; Sanskrit, hima (snow) + ālaya (dwelling), literally, "abode of the snow"[1]) is a mountain range in
Asia separating the plains of the
Indian subcontinent from the
Tibetan Plateau.
The
Himalayan range is home to the planet's highest peaks, including the highest,
Mount Everest. The Himalayas include over a hundred mountains exceeding 7,
200 metres (23,600 ft) in elevation. By contrast, the highest peak outside Asia --
Aconcagua, in the
Andes -- is 6,961 metres (22,838 ft) tall.[2] The Himalayas have profoundly shaped the cultures of
South Asia. Many
Himalayan peaks are sacred in both
Buddhism and Hinduism.
Besides the
Greater Himalayas of these high peaks there are parallel lower ranges. The first foothills, reaching about a thousand meters along the northern edge of the plains, are called the
Sivalik Hills or
Sub-Himalayan Range. Further north is a higher range reaching two to three thousand meters known as the Lower Himalayan or
Mahabharat Range.
The Himalayas abut or cross six countries:
Bhutan,
India,
Nepal,
China,
Afghanistan and Pakistan, with the first three countries having sovereignty over most of the range.[3] The Himalayas are bordered on the northwest by the Karakoram and
Hindu Kush ranges, on the north by the Tibetan Plateau, and on the south by the
Indo-Gangetic Plain.
Three of the world's major rivers, the
Indus, the
Ganges and the Tsangpo-Brahmaputra, all rise near
Mount Kailash and cross and encircle the Himalayas. Their combined drainage basin is home to some 600 million people.
Lifted by the collision of the
Indian tectonic plate with the
Eurasian Plate,[4] 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.
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