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1. Western Himalayas :
AFGHANISTAN
KA India
The western Himalayas KARAK
(Northern Mountains)
RAKORA
are located in the states of M Indus
ORAM
Srinagar
RAN
GE
RANGE
Jammu and Kashmir. PAKISTAN Jh elum W C H I N A
W
HI
Beas
2. Central Himalayas : Satluj ERN ESTERN EST TIBET
Shimla L. Mansarowar
HIMALA
The central Himalayas Chandigarh YAS GR
MALAYAS
GREA
Dehradun EATER H Lohit
are located in Himachal L MIDDLE Tsangpo
HASI, GARO, NAGA,
TER H
MIDDLE
I, JAINTIA
DELHI Gn OWER H
Kosi KHASI, GARO, NAGA,
LOWER
a
Pradesh and Uttarakhand Yam ga H IMA SHAI, PATKAI, JAINTIA
IMALAYAS Mt. EverestMt. Everest
IMALAYAS
Itanagar
K
HIMALAYAS
HIMALAYAS
Gangtok LUSHAI, PATKA
un
LU
in India. They are located L. Sambhar Jaipur a Lucknow Gandak BHUTAN tra Shillongillong Ko
IMALAYAS
LAYAS
Chambal
Dispurspur
Di
Kohimahima
CENTRAL
CENTRAL
Sh
Gandak
in Nepal too. Lu ni barmati Banas bal Sind Be twa Gomat i HIMALA Tis ta Bra hmapu I Imphalmphal
HIMALAYASYAS
Patna
Ganga
3. Eastern Himalayas : Not to scale Sa C ham Parb ati Son a o ar D m d BANGLA Agartala
Gandhinagar Mahi Bhopal Ranchi Ko DESH Tropic of Cancer
Kolkatalkata
The eastern Himalayas Narmada II N N D D I I A A MYANMAR
are also called Poorvanchal. They are located in the states of West Bengal, Sikkim,
Tapi
Ma
Raipur
Daman Silvassa
Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh. There are a number of important hills in the
hanadi
Penganga
Godavari
,
,
Indravati
Poorvanchal, such as Khasi, Garo Naga Lushai Patkai and Jaintia hills.
,
Mumbai
Bhubaneswar
hima B Manjara
ARABIAN BAY
The width of the Himalayas varies from 150 to 400 km at different places, which can be
God
SEA
OF
i h Krishna avari
divided into three ranges : greater Himalayas (Himadri), middle Himalayas
Kr s na
BENGAL
adra
Tu gabh
(Himachal) and lower Himalayas (Shivalik). Pe n r e u L. Kolleru
n
n
1. Greater Himalayas or Himadri : The Himadri NORTHERN MOUNTAINS
L. Pulicat
Jog Falls
P en Andama
range is the northernmost part of the Himalayas. It
naiyar
K
comprises a number of glaciers and snow-capped I nand
ave
La
ri
( ksh ( ndia) i
peaks. The average height of mountains is about
Va
ad
N cob
INDI
igai
A)
6,000 metres above the sea level. Mount Everest
weep
SRI
ar Islands
(8,848 metres), the world’s highest peak, is located in
LANKA
this range in Nepal. Other important peaks in this
INDIAN OCEAN
range in India include Kanchenjunga (8,598 metres),
Nanga Parbat (8,126 metres) and Nanda Devi (7,817
metres). Mount Everest
Know It!
v Tenzing Norgay of India and Edmund Hillary of New Zealand were the first persons to scale Mount Everest
in 1953. The first woman to climb this peak was Bachendri Pal who did it in 1984.
Many rivers originate in the Himadri range. The Ganga originates in the Gangotri
glacier and the Yamuna in the Yamunotri glacier. Melting snow is the source of several
rivers in North India including the Indus and Brahmaputra.
2. Middle Himalayas or Himachal : This range is located to the south of the Himadri.
The mountains in the Himachal vary from 3,700 metres to 4,500 metres in height. It is
beautified by several scenic and broad valleys, such as Kangra valley, Kashmir valley
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