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TheHimalayaRange,orHimalayasforshort,isamountainrangeinAsia,separatingtheIndiansubcontinentfromtheTibetanPlateau.Byextension,itisalsothenameofthemassivemountainsystemwhichincludestheKarakoram,theHinduKush,andahostofminorrangesextendingfromthePamirKnot.ThenameisfromSanskrithimālaya,atatpurusacompoundmeaning"theabodeofsnow"(fromhima"snow",andālaya"abode";seealsoHimavat).[1]Aswords,theexpression"HimalayaRange"issimilartotheexpressionSierraNevada.

Together,theHimalayanmountainsystemistheplanet'shighestandhometotheworld'shighestpeaks:theEight-thousanders,includingMountEverest(Nepal/Tibet)andK2(NorthernAreas).TocomprehendtheenormousscaleofthismountainrangeconsiderthatAconcagua,intheAndes,at6,962m,isthehighestpeakoutsideAsia,whiletheHimalayansystemincludesover100mountainsexceeding7,200meters.[2]

TheHimalayansystem,whichincludesoutlyingsubranges,stretchesacrosssixcountries:Bhutan,Tibet,India,Nepal,PakistanandAfghanistan.Theyarethesourceofthreeoftheworld'smajorriversystems,theIndus,theGanga-Brahmaputra,andtheYangtze.Approximately1.3billionpeopleliveinthedrainagebasinoftheHimalayanrivers.

Therangeproperrunswesttoeast,fromtheIndusrivervalleytotheBrahmaputrarivervalley,therebyforminganarc2,400kmlong,whichvariesinwidthfrom400kminthewesternKashmir-Xinjiangregionto150kmintheeasternTibet-ArunachalPradeshregion.TheHimalayachainconsistsofthreeparallelranges,withthenorthern-mostrangeknownastheGreatorInnerHimalayas.

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VastmountainsystemofcentralAsia,extendingfromtheIndianstatesofKashmirinthewesttoAssamintheeast,coveringthesouthernpartofTibet,Nepal,Sikkim,andBhutan.Itisthehighestmountainrangeintheworld,withmorethan100peaksreachingheightsover7,300m/24,000ft;itsnamemeans‘abodeofsnow’.ThetwohighestpeaksareMountEverestandK2.OtherpeaksincludeKanchenjunga,Makalu,Annapurna,andNangaParbat,allover8,000m/26,000ft.