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Image: High Asia Mountain Ranges

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Description: high Asian mountain ranges and their highest mountains:


Tien Shan – Jengish Chokusu is outside the picture,

Kunlun Shan – Kongur Tagh. Note: Some sources count Kongur to the Pamirs. Liushi Shan, the highest mountain of Kunlun Shan not counting Kongur is outside the picture

Pamir – Kongur Tagh (if not counted to Kunlun Shan), Pik Imeni Ismail Samani (if Kongur belongs to Kunlun Shan)

Hindu Kush – Tirich Mir >> HERE MISTAKE IN THE MAP: The last 2½ letters of "Hindu Kush" are in the Hindu Raj mountain range which spread out eastwards to the huge S-shaped Indus valley (crossing the first letter of "Nanga Parbat")

Karakoram – K2

Himalayas – Nanga Parbat is the highest mountain of the western Himalayas, there are of course seven higher Eightthousanders in the eastern Himalayas

Ladakh Range – no prominent high peak labelled

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