2006-06-17 02:02:05 · 9 answers · asked by gatty 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Primary & Secondary Education
Him·a·la·ya Mountains (hĭm'ə-lā'ə, hĭ-mäl'yə) pronunciation or Him·a·la·yas (-əs, -yəs)
A mountain system of south-central Asia extending about 2,414 km (1,500 mi) through Kashmir, northern India, southern Xizang (Tibet), Nepal, Sikkim, and Bhutan. The Himalayas include nine of the world's ten highest peaks, including Mount Everest.
2006-06-17 02:06:12 · answer #1 · answered by Smiddy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Himalaya is a mountain range in Asia, separating the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. By extension, it is also the name of the massive mountain system which includes the Himalaya proper, the Karakoram, the Hindu Kush, and a host of minor ranges extending from the Pamir Knot. The name is from Sanskrit himÄlaya, a tatpurusha compound meaning "the abode of snow" (from hima "snow", and Älaya "abode"; see also Himavat).
The Himalaya stretches across five nations: Bhutan, China, India, Nepal, and Pakistan. It is the source of three of the world's major river systems, the Indus Basin, the Ganga-Brahmaputra Basin and the Yangtze Basin. An estimated 750 million people live in the watershed area of the Himalayan rivers, which also includes Bangladesh.
2006-06-18 06:34:05 · answer #2 · answered by Lover 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
(1) Himalaya is a (Sanskrit for “abode of snow”), mountain system in Asia.
(2) It is comprising a series of parallel and converging ranges and forming the highest mountain region in the world. More than 30 peaks of the Himalaya rise to heights of 7,620 m.
(3) The Mount Everest (8,850 m)which is in Himalayan range is the world's highest mountain.
(4) The vast Himalayan complex extends in an arc of about 2,400 km from the River Indus in northern Pakistan eastwards to the Brahmaputra River, across Kashmir in northern India, part of southern Tibet, most of Nepal, the Indian state of Sikkim, and Bhutan; the system covers an area of about 594,400 sq km
(5) The extreme climate and challenging landscape of the range have made it the goal of many mountaineers.
2006-06-17 09:40:48 · answer #3 · answered by Wijekumara 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nepal
2006-06-17 09:12:41 · answer #4 · answered by slowest 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
northen part of India and in Nepal.
2006-06-17 09:05:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
northen part of India and in Pakistan
2006-06-24 04:37:22 · answer #6 · answered by No Picture 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they are in the north east part of india and r distributed in three ranges
1)Himadri
2)Himachal
3)Shivaliks
2006-06-17 09:25:37 · answer #7 · answered by Rachit Sood 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
mountains
2006-06-17 09:05:56 · answer #8 · answered by ctptphd 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in india
2006-06-17 09:50:48 · answer #9 · answered by halleberry_aus 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋