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The major peaks (not mountains) above 7,500 m (24,600 ft) height in Himalayas, rank identified in Himalayas alone (not the world). [1] The map may help give context to List of Himalayan peaks and passes with more detail and zooming on click through.
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 Himalayas, or Himalaya (/ ˌ h ɪ m ə ˈ l eɪ. ə, h ɪ ˈ m ɑː l ə j ə / HIM-ə-LAY-ə, hih-MAH-lə-yə) [b] is a mountain range in Asia, separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. The range has some of the Earth's highest peaks, including the highest, Mount Everest.
World peaks with 4000 meters of prominence from peakbagger.com; World top 50 most prominent peaks, originally compiled by David Metzler and Eberhard Jurgalski, and updated with the help of others as new elevation information, especially SRTM, has become available. World top 100 most prominent peaks, from the same authors as the top 50.
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
Topography of Europe. This article lists the highest natural elevation of each sovereign state on the continent of Europe defined physiographically. Not all points in this list are mountains or hills, some are simply elevations that are not distinguishable as geographical features.
Prominence lists (including all mountains in the world with >1,450m prominence) Alpine Club Himalayan index (Especially informative for history of ascents and location of obscure peaks) BlankontheMap site on mountains of Northern Kashmir; Hispar area: expedition reports and maps; List of highest mountains down to 6750 metres
The Alpide belt or Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt, [1] or more recently and rarely the Tethyan orogenic belt, is a seismic and orogenic belt that includes an array of mountain ranges extending for more than 15,000 kilometres (9,300 mi) along the southern margin of Eurasia, stretching from Java and Sumatra, through the Indochinese Peninsula, the Himalayas and Transhimalayas, the mountains of ...