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- 2. Physical Features of Pakistan The mountain ranges Plains Pleatues Desert Cost Line
- 3. 1. The Mountain Ranges Northern Mountain Ranges North Western Mountain Ranges Western Mountain range
- 4. Northern Mountain ranges The Himalayas Karakorum Hindukush
- 8. Further division in Himalayas 1. The Shiwalik range
- 9. Salient Features The Shivalik Hills, also known as Churia Hills, are a mountain range of the outer Himalayas that stretches from the Indus River about 2,400 km (1,500 mi) eastwards close to the Brahmaputra River, Spanning across the northern parts of the Indian subcontinent. It is 10–50 km (6.2–31.1 mi) wide with an average elevation of 1,500–2,000 m (4,900–6,600 ft). Between the Teesta and Raidāk Rivers in Assam is a gap of about 90 km (56 mi). In some Sanskrit texts, the region is called Manak Parbat. Sivalik literally means 'tresses of Shiva. Sivalik region is home to the Soanian archaeological culture
- 11. Salient Features. Valley of Kashmir is situated in Grater Himaliyan range.
- 12. The lesser Himalayan or Pir Pangal range. Salient Features. In Pakistan lesser Himalayan range starts from Pir panjal range south of grater Himalayas. Pir Panjal Mountain Range view from Head Marala,Sialkot, Pakistan. The Pir Panjal Range is a group of mountains in the Inner Himalayan region, running from east-southeast to west-northwest across the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh and Indian controlled Jammu and Kashmir and Pakistan administered Azad Kashmir. Muree and Ayubia are located in Pir Punjal Range.
- 14. Salient Features 1. The Hindu Kush commonly understood to mean Killer of the Hindus, 2. Is an 800-kilometre-long (500 mi) mountain range that stretches through Afghanistan, from its center to Northern Pakistan and into Tajikistan. 3. The range forms the western section of the Hindu Kush Himalayan Region and is the western most extension of the Pamir Mountains, the Karakoram and the Himalayas 4. The range has numerous high snow-capped peaks, with the highest point being Tirich Mir or Terichmir at 7,708 meters (25,289 ft.) in the Chitral District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. 5. The eastern end of the Hindu Kush in the north merges with the Karakoram Range. 6. The Hindu Kush range has also been the passageway during the invasions of the Indian subcontinent, and continues to be important during modern-era warfare in Afghanistan.
- 16. Salient features. The Karakoram is a mountain range spanning the borders of China, India, and Pakistan, with the northwest extremity of the range extending to Afghanistan and Tajikistan. Its highest 15 mountains are all based in Pakistan. It begins in the Wakhan Corridor (Afghanistan) in the west and encompasses the majority of Gilgit-Baltistan (Pakistan) and extends into Ladakh (India) and the disputed Aksai Chin region controlled by China. It is the second highest mountain range in the world and part of the complex of ranges including the Pamir Mountains, the Hindu Kush and the Himalayan Mountains. The Karakoram has eighteen summits over 7,500 m (24,600 ft) height, with four of them exceeding 8,000 m (26,000 ft). K2, the second highest peak in the world at 8,611 m (28,251 ft), Gasherbrum I, Broad Peak and Gasherbrum II.