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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 meters (23,600 ft) in elevation. By contrast, The Highest peak outside Asia - Aconcagua, in the Andes - is 6.961 meters (22.838 ft) tall [2] The Himalayas Profoundly-have shaped the cultures of South Asia.. Many Himalayan peaks are sacred in Hinduism and Buddhism Both.
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, the Shivalik Hills are called Expired or Sub-Himalayan Range. Further north is a Higher ranks or Mahabharat Range reaching two to three thousand meters Known as the Lower Himalayan Himachal gold.
The Himalayas abut or cross five countries: India, Nepal, Bhutan, China, and Pakistan, with the first three Countries HAVING Sovereignty over MOST of the ranks [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 Brahmaputra-Tsangpo, rise in the Himalayas. While the Indus and the Brahmaputra Tsangpo-rise near Mount Kailash, the Ganges rises in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. Their combined drainage basin is home to 600 million people Some.
Lifted by the collision of the Indian tectonic plate with the Eurasian Plate, [4] the Himalayan Range runs, west-northwest to east-southeast, in arcuate 2.400 km (1.500 mi) long. Its western anchor, Nanga Parbat, lies just south of the northernmost bend of river Indus, ict eastern anchor, Namcha Barwa, just west of the great bend of the Tsangpo river. The Range varies in width from 400 km (250 mi) in the west to 150 km (93 mi) in the east.
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