2007-01-06 01:12:42 · 14 answers · asked by Bikash G 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Geography
Two Thousand
It is also the name of the second-highest mountain on Earth. It is located in the Himalayan range, in Pakistan and China
2007-01-06 01:17:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everyone saying K2 is a mountain is correct. I'll just add the fun fact that K2 is the World's second highest mountain, but Mount Everest is not K1. The K is for Karakoram. The peaks of the Karakoram were surveyed by Thomas Montgomerie in the 1850s and numbered as K1, K2 etc.
Some say that they were numbered in order of height (K2 being erroneously supposed to be lower than Masherbrum): some say that the order was pretty well random. K1 was probably Masherbrum: it wouldn't have been Everest, which is not in the Karakoram.
2007-01-06 13:50:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
K2 is the second-highest mountain on Earth. It is located in the Karakoram segment of the Himalayan range, in Pakistan and China, on the border[2] between the Gilgit-Baltistan region in the Pakistan administered Northern Areas, and the Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County of Xinjiang, China.[1]
Chinese authorities officially refer to K2 as Qogir; Chinese: ä¹æéå³°, Pinyin: QiáogÄlÇ FÄng. This name is derived from Chogori, "a synthetic name made up by Western explorers early in the 20th century from two Balti words, chhogo ('big') and ri ('mountain')."[3] Other names include Mount Godwin-Austen,[4][5] Lambha Pahar ("Tall Mountain" in Urdu), Dapsang, Kechu or Ketu (both derived from "K2").
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2007-01-07 06:50:12 · answer #3 · answered by catzpaw 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
K2 is the second-highest mountain on Earth. It is located in the Karakoram segment of the Himalayan range, in Pakistan and China, on the border[2] between the Gilgit-Baltistan region in the Pakistan administered Northern Areas, and the Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County of Xinjiang, China.[1]
Chinese authorities officially refer to K2 as Qogir; Chinese: ä¹æéå³°, Pinyin: QiáogÄlÇ FÄng. This name is derived from Chogori, "a synthetic name made up by Western explorers early in the 20th century from two Balti words, chhogo ('big') and ri ('mountain')."[3] Other names include Mount Godwin-Austen,[4][5] Lambha Pahar ("Tall Mountain" in Urdu), Dapsang, Kechu or Ketu (both derived from "K2"[3][6]).
2007-01-06 09:25:11 · answer #4 · answered by jaco_don 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first answer is correct.
K2 is the second-highest mountain on Earth. It is located in the Karakoram segment of the Himalayan range, in Pakistan and China, on the border between the Gilgit-Baltistan region in the Pakistan administered Northern Areas, and the Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County of Xinjiang, China.\\Chinese authorities officially refer to K2 as Qogir; Chinese: ä¹æéå³°, Pinyin: QiáogÄlÇ FÄng. This name is derived from Chogori, "a synthetic name made up by Western explorers early in the 20th century from two Balti words, chhogo ('big') and ri ('mountain')." Other names include Mount Godwin-Austen, Lambha Pahar ("Tall Mountain" in Urdu), Dapsang, Kechu or Ketu (both derived from "K2").
2K is two thousand, not K2.
2007-01-06 09:24:31 · answer #5 · answered by Betsy Jayne 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Highest Peak
2007-01-06 09:21:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
A mountain peak in the Karakoram Range in northern Kashmir; the 2nd highest peak in the world (28,250 feet high)
2007-01-06 09:22:34 · answer #7 · answered by elvisjohn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The world's second highest mountain, in the Himalayas
2007-01-06 11:58:49 · answer #8 · answered by rosie recipe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a mountain peak of himalayan range
2007-01-06 09:35:31 · answer #9 · answered by Pepper 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its a mountain
2007-01-06 09:23:22 · answer #10 · answered by sudheesh s 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋