asian geography

Aerial view, Himalaya Mountains, Pakistan

The Himalaya Mountains extend for about 2,5oo km (1,550 miles) separating the Indian subcontinent from the rest of Asia.

Aerial view, Himalaya Mountains, Pakistan

The Himalaya Mountains extend for about 2,5oo km (1,550 miles) separating the Indian subcontinent from the rest of Asia.

The Himalaya Mountains cover more than 612, 000 sq. km. passing through the northern states of India & making up most of the terrain of Nepal & Bhutan.

Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak is located in the Mahalangur section of the Himalayas. The international border between China and Nepal runs across the precise summit point.

Kangchenjunga: The highest Mountain Summit in India and third highest mountain peak of world with an altitude of 8,586 m (28,169 ft). It is situated at the border of India and Nepal in of North Sikkim region .

Lhotse, Nepal by Koveh Tavakkol

Lhotse is the fourth highest mountain on Earth and is connected to Everest via the

South Col. Lhotse means “South Peak” in Tibetan. It has an elevation of

8,516 m (27,940 ft ).

Makalu is the 5th highest mountain in the world at 8,481 metres (27,825 ft) and is located 19 km (12 mi) southeast of Mount Everest, on the border between Nepal and China. One of the eight-thousanders, Makalu is an isolated peak whose shape is a four-sided pyramid.

Moonrise over Makalu

Cho Oyu mountain range at sunrise

Cho Oyu is the sixth highest mountain in the world at 8,201 metres (26,906 ft) above sea level. Cho Oyu means "Turquoise Goddess" in Tibetan.

Dhaulagiri seen from Poon Hill early in the morning, Nepal

Dhaulagiri I at 8,167 metres (26,795 ft) ranks seventh among Earth's fourteen peaks

over eight thousand metres. It was first climbed on May 13, 1960 by a

Swiss/Austrian/Nepali expedition.

The mighty Manaslu Himal towering above the clouds (Nepal)

Manaslu , also known as Kutang is the eighth highest mountain in the world, and is located in

the Mansiri Himal, part of the Nepalese Himalayas, in the west-central part of Nepal. Its

name, which means "Mountain of the Spirit", comes from the Sanskrit word Manasa, meaning

"intellect" or "soul".

Nanga Parbat mountain in Pakistan

Nanga Parbat (literally, Naked Mountain Urdu) is the ninth highest

mountain in the world. It is the western anchor of the Himalayas

around which the Indus river skirts before it debouches into the plains of

Pakistan. It is located in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan, and is

locally known as 'Deo Mir' ('mir' meaning 'mountain').[

How Brave do you have to be to walk these steps?

Annapurna I is tenth among Earth's fourteen eight-thousanders. 8167 metre Dhaulagiri I rises 34 km to the west across the Kali Gandaki Gorge, considered Earth's deepest canyon. It is a Sanskrit name which literally means "full of food" (feminine form), but is normally translated as Goddess of the Harvests.

Tien Shan mountain system stretches fro about 2,400 km straddling the border between Kyrgystan and China. The name Tien Shan means “Celestial Mountains” in Chinese.

Tian Shan mountains, between China and Kyrgyzstan

The Tien Shan, is a large system of mountain ranges located in Central Asia. The highest peak is Victory Peak at 7,439 metres. The range is on the border between China and Kyrgyzstan.

Horse trekking in the Tien Shan Mountains, Kyrgyzstan

The Ural Mountains run for approximately 2,500 km in an indirect north-south line from Russia to Kazakhstan.

Mount Narodnaya (also known as Naroda and Poenurr) the name refers to river Naroda, which originates from the mount; the meaning People's Mountain. It is the highest peak in the Ural Mountains at 1,895 meters (6,217 feet).

Asia is home to many plateaus, areas of relatively level high ground. Snow Line at the Tibetan Plateau

by reurinkjan, via Flickr

The Iranian plateau covers more than 3.6 million square kilometers (1.4 million square miles), encompassing most of Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. The plateau is not uniformly flat, but contains some high mountains and low river basins.

The highest mountain peak in the Iranian Plateau at 5,610 meters (18,410 feet).

Iran - Dunes at Maranjob at Dasht-e Kavir Desert

The Iranian plateau also has two large deserts, the Dasht-e Kavir and Dasht-e Lut.

Dasht-e-Lut, Irán, via Flickr.

The Deccan Plateau makes up most of the southern part of India. The plateau’s average elevation is about 600 meters (2,000 feet). It is bordered by three mountain ranges: the Satpura Range in the north, and the Eastern and Western Ghats on either side.

Pachmarhi is a famous and most visited hill station is located at a height of 1100 m in a valley of the Satpura Range in Hoshangabad district of Madhya Pradesh state of India. It is widely known as Satpura ki Rani

Located on the Western Ghats, #Khandala is located between the Deccan Plateau and the Konkan region of Maharashtra. The city is easily accessible and is a popular hiking getaway near Mumbai

Trekking through the Eastern Ghat @ Mahabaleshwar

The plateau and its main waterway that gently slope toward the Eastern Ghats and the Bay of Bengal.

Andhra Pradesh (India)

GODAVARI RIVER WATERFALL

The Krishna River is one of the longest rivers in central-southern India, about 1,300 kilometres (810 mi). It is also referred to as Krishnaveni in its original nomenclature

Bay of Bengal

The Tibetan Plateau is usually considered the largest and highest area ever to exist in the history of Earth.

Known as the “Rooftop of the World,” the plateau covers an area about half the size of the contiguous

United States and averages more than 5,000 meters (16,400 feet) above sea level.

L'état du Xinjiang, China Plain of Jars, Laos

Vasyugan River in the southern West Siberian Plain

The West Siberian Plain, located in central Russia, is considered one of the world’s largest areas of continuous flatland. It extends from north to south about 2,400 kilometers (1,500 miles) and from west to east about 1,900 kilometers (1,200 miles).

The steppes of Kazakhstan

Yangykala Canyon in Central Asia, Turkmenistan.

Central Asia is dominated by a steppe landscape, a large area of flat, unforested grassland.

Mountain forest steppe Gorkhi-Terelj National Park, Mongolia

The Gobi Desert, Cow In the middle of the Gobi Desert, some grassy prairies where cattle and horses graze contrast with the arid mountains.

Dunes and lakes in Badain Jaran Desert, Inner Mongolia

Mongolia can be divided into different steppe zones.

The Rub’ al Khali desert, considered the world’s largest sand sea, covers an area larger than France across Saudi Arabia, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. It holds roughly half as

much sand as Africa’s Sahara desert, even though it is 15 times smaller in size. Bedouin Man

Lake Baikal, located in southern Russia, is the deepest lake in the world, reaching a depth of 1,620 meters (5,315 feet). The lake contains 20 percent of the world’s unfrozen freshwater, making it the largest reservoir on Earth. It is also the world’s oldest lake, at 25 million years old.

Nadav Kander - Ship heading into mists at Yangtze River

The Yangtze is the longest river in Asia and the third longest in the world (behind the Amazon of South America and the Nile of Africa).

Baghdad, Iraq

The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers begin in the highlands of eastern Turkey and flow through Syria and Iraq, joining in the city of Qurna, Iraq, before emptying into the Persian Gulf.

El Nido, Palawan, Philippines

The Persian Gulf has an area of more than 234,000 square kilometers (90,000 square miles). It borders Iran, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Iraq. The gulf is subject to high rates of evaporation, making it shallow and extremely salty.

Urup, a volcanic island of the Kuril Island chain, Sea of Okhotsk in the northwest Pacific Ocean

The Sea of Okhotsk covers 1.5 million square kilometers (611,000 square miles) between the Russian mainland and the Kamchatka Peninsula. The sea is largely frozen between October and March. Large ice floes make winter navigation almost impossible.