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    List of Mountain Ranges of Pakistan - Wikipedia

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    Pakistan is home to many mountain ranges, including five of the fourteen highest mountains in the world that are over 8,000 meters tall. The Karakoram range contains the second highest peak in the world, K2, at 8,611 meters tall. The highest peak in the Himalayan range within Pakistan is Nanga Parbat at 8,126 meters tall. In total, Pakistan has over a dozen major mountain ranges that traverse the northern and western parts of the country.

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    Pakistan is home to many mountain ranges, including five of the fourteen highest mountains in the world that are over 8,000 meters tall. The Karakoram range contains the second highest peak in the world, K2, at 8,611 meters tall. The highest peak in the Himalayan range within Pakistan is Nanga Parbat at 8,126 meters tall. In total, Pakistan has over a dozen major mountain ranges that traverse the northern and western parts of the country.

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    Pakistan is home to many mountain ranges, including five of the fourteen highest mountains in the world that are over 8,000 meters tall. The Karakoram range contains the second highest peak in the world, K2, at 8,611 meters tall. The highest peak in the Himalayan range within Pakistan is Nanga Parbat at 8,126 meters tall. In total, Pakistan has over a dozen major mountain ranges that traverse the northern and western parts of the country.

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    Pakistan is home to many mountain ranges, including five of the fourteen highest mountains in the world that are over 8,000 meters tall. The Karakoram range contains the second highest peak in the world, K2, at 8,611 meters tall. The highest peak in the Himalayan range within Pakistan is Nanga Parbat at 8,126 meters tall. In total, Pakistan has over a dozen major mountain ranges that traverse the northern and western parts of the country.

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    List of mountain

    ranges of Pakistan

    Pakistan is home to many mountains above 7,000 metres (22,970 ft). Five of the world's
    fourteen mountains taller than 8,000 metres (26,000 ft) ("eight-thousanders") are in Pakistan,
    four of which are near Concordia.

    Mountain ranges in Northern Pakistan as seen from space


    Karakoram range as seen from International Space Station

    Satellite image of a part of the Sulaiman Range.


    Mountain Ranges of Pakistan, NASA.googl

    Most of Pakistan's high peaks are located in the Karakoram range, the highest of which is K2
    8611 meter long (8,611 metres (28,251 ft)), the second-highest peak on earth. The highest peak
    of Himalayan range in Pakistan is Nanga Parbat (8,126 metres (26,660 ft)), which is the ninth-
    highest peak of the world.

    Following are the mountain ranges that are fully or partially included in Pakistan:

    Karakoram, including the world's second-highest peak, K2 (8,611 m or 28,251 ft)[1]

    Himalayas; highest peak in Pakistan is Nanga Parbat (8,126 metres (26,660 ft))[2]

    Hindu Kush; highest peak is Tirich Mir (7,690 metres (25,230 ft)).

    Hindu Raj in northern Pakistan, part of the eastern Hindu Kush, highest peak is Koyo Zom
    (6,872 m (22,546 ft)).

    Spīn Ghar, starting from Tora Bora on the border with eastern Afghanistan west of the Khyber
    Pass, highest peak is Mount Sikaram (4,755 m (15,600)) .

    Sulaiman Mountains; highest peak is Takht-e-Sulaiman (3,487 metres (11,440 ft)).

    Margalla Hills in Punjab whose highest peak is Tilla Charouni (1,604 metres (5,262 ft))

    Salt Range, a hill system in the Punjab Province that is abundant in salt; highest peak is
    Sakaser (1,522 metres (4,993 ft))

    Toba Kakar, a southern offshoot of the Hindu Kush in Balochistan

    Makran Range, a semi-desert coastal strip in the south of Balochistan, in Iran and Pakistan
    near the coast of the Arabian Sea. The narrow coastal plain rises very rapidly into several
    mountain ranges. Of its 1,000-kilometre (620 mi) extent, about 750 kilometres (470 mi) is in
    Pakistan

    Ras Koh Range

    Chagai Range

    Kirthar Range, located along the Balochistan and Sindh provincial border. It runs north-south
    for about 300 kilometres (186 mi) from the Mula River in east-central Balochistan south to
    Cape Muari (Cape Monze) west of Karachi on the Arabian Sea. The Hill Station of Sindh at
    Gorakh, in Kirthar Mountains Range, off Dadu, at the height of 5,688 feet (1,734 m), averaging
    5,500 feet (1,700 m), is one of the two large plateaus in the Sindh segment of Kirthar
    mountains.

    Kirana Hills, The Kirana Hills is a small and extensive rocky mountain range located in Chiniot
    and Rabwah, Pakistan. Kirana-I nuclear tests were conducted in these hills.

    See also

    References

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