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Physiographic world map with mountain ranges and highland areas in brown, pink, and gray. This is a list of mountain ranges on Earth and a few other astronomical bodies.First, the highest and longest mountain ranges on Earth are listed, followed by more comprehensive alphabetical lists organized by continent.
The Eurasian plate is a tectonic plate that includes most of Eurasia (a landmass consisting of the traditional continents of Asia and Europe), with the notable exceptions of the Arabian Peninsula, the Indian subcontinent, and the area east of the Chersky Range in eastern Siberia.
Name Country 'Approx. length (km) Highest mountain 'Max height (m) Al Hajar Mountains: Oman, United Arab Emirates: 500: Jebel Shams: 3,009 [1]: Alagalla Mountain Range (Potato Range) Sri Lanka
The mountain range forms part of the conventional boundary between the continents of Europe and Asia, marking the separation between European Russia and Siberia. Vaygach Island and the islands of Novaya Zemlya form a further continuation of the chain to the north into the Arctic Ocean.
Eurasia is considered a supercontinent, part of the supercontinent of Afro-Eurasia or simply a continent in its own right. [7] In plate tectonics, the Eurasian Plate includes Europe and most of Asia but not the Indian subcontinent, the Arabian Peninsula or the area of the Russian Far East east of the Chersky Range.
#11 All Were Once Part Of The Same Ancient Mountain Range, The Central Pangean Mountains This range formed over 300 million years ago during the Paleozoic Era when the supercontinent Pangaea was ...
Asia and Europe are considered separate continents for historical reasons; the division between the two goes back to the early Greek geographers. In the modern sense of the term "continent", Eurasia is more readily identifiable as a "continent", and Europe has occasionally been described as a subcontinent of Eurasia. [68]
Carpathian Mountains, a major mountain range in Central and Southern Europe Southern Carpathians, Romania; Tatra Mountains, Slovakia and Poland; Caucasus Mountains, which also separate Europe and Asia; Crimean Mountains; Maja Jezercë in Albania at 2,694m high is the highest peak of the Dinaric Alps. Dinaric Alps, a mountain range in the Balkans