Question

The Himalayas run across five countries _________________.
A.Bhutan, India, Nepal, China, and Pakistan
B.Bhutan, India, Afghanistan, China, and Pakistan
C.Bhutan, India, Nepal, Indonesia, and D.Pakistan
Australia, India, Nepal, China, and Pakistan

Answer 1

Hint: A mountain range in Asia separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau in the Himalayas, or Himalaya. The range includes many of the highest peaks on Earth, including the highest, Mount Everest.

Complete answer: The range has many of the highest peaks on Earth, including the highest one, Mount Everest, on the Nepal-China border. About fifty mountains exceeding 7,200 m (23,600 ft) in elevation from the Himalayas, including ten of the fourteen 8,000-metre peaks. By comparison, outside Asia (Aconcagua, in the Andes), the highest point is 6,961 m (22,838 ft) tall.

52.7 million People inhabit the Himalayas, and they are distributed across five countries: Bhutan, China, India, Nepal, and Pakistan. The Hindu Kush range in Afghanistan and Hkakabo Razi in Myanmar are not usually included, but they are both parts of the greater Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) river system (with the addition of Bangladesh).

The Himalayas consist of parallel mountain ranges: the south of the Shivalik Hills; the lower Himalayan Chain; the highest and central range of the Great Himalayas; and the north of the Tibetan Himalayas. The Karakoram is considered different from the Himalayas in general.

Thus, the answer is an option: Bhutan, India, Nepal, China, and Pakistan.

Note: The Himalayan range is one of the planet's youngest mountain ranges and consists mainly of sedimentary and metamorphic uplifted soil. Its formation is the result of a continental collision or orogeny along the convergent boundary (Main Himalayan Thrust) between the Indo-Australian Plate and the Eurasian Plate, according to the modern theory of plate tectonics. The highlands of Arakan Yoma in Myanmar and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal were also formed as a result of this collision.