Himalayan mountains on map Basic Facts about the Himalayas Name: the Himalayas Sanskrit name: hima ālaya (meaning abode of snow) Location: spanning 5 countries(India, Pakistan, Nepal, China and Bhutan ) Width:
After the Dihang Gorge, the mountains curve sharply south and continue along India’s eastern edge. There is also an extended part of the Himalayas called the Arakan Yoma in Myanmar. The Himalayan Mountain Range is the division between the Tibetan Plateau and the Indian subcontinent in Asia. ...
The Himalayas or “abode of snow” is in fact the youngest and highest mountain system in the world. It extends over 2,400kms as a vast south-facing area between the Indus and Brahmaputra rivers with Nanga Parbat (8,125m) and Namcha Barwa (7,755m) as its terminal high points. Fully ...
The mountains, forced upwards as the Indian sub-continental plate smashes into Asia, form the most extraordinarily varied concoction of twisted peaks and sunken troughs of serrated granite ridges and fluted sandstone gorges, of alluvial plains and sandy steppes, all carrying a multitud...
Known as the water tower of South Asia and the Third Pole (Bolch et al. 2012), these mountains host one of the largest ice-covered regions globally and are a center of ecological and climate diversity. Approximately 26% of Pakistan’s population—around 54 million people—lives in proximity...
Himalayan farmers depend on South Asia’s monsoon season to drench crops and ensure their livelihood. But these storms can quickly turn from downpour to disaster. Jagged mountain ranges magnify the forces of wind and water, making the region particularly vulnerable. The International Centre for Integ...
we analyzed the habitat characteristics of Himalayan marmots, developed Himalayan marmot information collection system V3.0 based on global navigation satellite system (GNSS), remote sensing, and geographic information system (“3S”) technology, and drew a predictive spatial distribution map of Himalayan...
Furthermore, snowpit samples from eight glaciers were obtained from a region spanning from the Himalayas in the south to the Qilian Mountains in the northeastern TP (Supplementary Table 2). The elemental carbon (EC) component, which is the common chemical/mass definition of BC, was isolated ...
The sun was just rising, in a cloudless sky, vividly lighting up the glittering snowy peaks that bounded the distance, and spread their rough inferior ranges down to the highest on which I now stood. The whole glen of Pabur lay before me, dividing the mountains by a deep and tolerably ...
A number of Chinese species and species groups have already been studied from the viewpoint of understanding phylogeographic patterns and location of refugia within the region. Judging from Figs. 3a and b, the SinoHimalayan hotspot and the more isolated mountains up to the Great Hingen Mountains ...