HIMALAYAS

Himalayas 

The Himalayas is one of the young fold mountains in the world. The Himalayas extend from pamir knot in Tajikistan to the east .it is a major mountain system of the Asian continent. The india ,it extent from jammu and Kashmir to arunachal Pradesh. 

The Himalayas is not a single mountain range .there are many parallel ranges in the system. The southmost is known as siwaliks. It is also the youngest range.next to siwaliks are lesser Himalayas, greater Himalayas ranges from south to north. these ranges are young to old respectively. 

These mountain ranges are also divided into western Himalayas (or Kashmir Himalayas). Central Himalayas (or kumaun Himalayas) and eastern Himalayas ( or assam Himalayas).







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