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Himalayas

The Himalayas are a range of mountains in . The Himalaya proper stretches from the Indus River in , through , , and , and ends at the Brahmaputra River in eastern India.
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Himalayas

  • Type: Region
  • Description: mountain range in Asia
  • Also known as: “Himalaya”, “Himálaya”, “Himalaya Mountains”, “Himálaya Mountains”, “Himalayan Mountains”, “Himmaleh”, “Snowy Mountains”, “the Himalaya”, “the Himálaya”, and “the Himalayas”
  • Categories: mountain range and locality
  • Location:
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Latitude of center
30.9017° or 30° 54′ 6″ north
Longitude of center
84.9023° or 84° 54′ 8″ east
Open­Street­Map ID
way 1414235061
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­mountain_range
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­region
Wiki­data ID
Q5451
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zhuang—“Himalayas” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Himalaja”
  • Albanian: “Himalajet”
  • Amharic: “ሂማላያ ተራሮች”
  • Amharic: “ሂማላያ”
  • Angika: “हिमालय”
  • Arabic: “الهمالية”
  • Arabic: “همالية”
  • Arabic: “هملايا”
  • Arabic: “هيمالايا”
  • Aragonese: “Himalaya”
  • Armenian: “Հիմալայներ”
  • Assamese: “হিমালয়”
  • Asturian: “Himalaya”
  • Avaric: “Гьималаял”
  • Awadhi: “हिमालय”
  • Azerbaijani: “Himalay dağları”
  • Azerbaijani: “Himalay”
  • Balinese: “Gunung Himalaya”
  • Bashkir: “Гималай тауҙары”
  • Bashkir: “Һималайҙар”
  • Basque: “Himalaia”
  • Bavarian: “Himalaya”
  • Belarusian: “Гімалаі”
  • Bengali: “হিমালয় পর্বতমালা”
  • Betawi: “Himalaya”
  • Betawi: “Pegunungan Himalaya”
  • Bhojpuri: “हिमालय परबत”
  • Bhojpuri: “हिमालय पर्बत”
  • Bhojpuri: “हिमालय पहाड़”
  • Bhojpuri: “हिमालय”
  • Bosnian: “Himalaji”
  • Breton: “Himalaya”
  • Bulgarian: “Хималаи”
  • Burmese: “ဟိမဝန္တာ တောင်တန်း”
  • Catalan: “Himàlaia”
  • Cebuano: “Himalayas”
  • Central Bikol: “Himalaya”
  • Central Kurdish: “ھیمالایا”
  • Chechen: “Гималай”
  • Chinese: “Himalaya Soaⁿ-lêng”
  • Chinese: “喜瑪拉雅山”
  • Chinese: “喜馬拉雅山”
  • Chinese: “喜馬拉雅山脈”
  • Chinese: “喜马拉雅山脉”
  • Chuvash: “Гималай тăвĕсем”
  • Cornish: “Himalayas”
  • Corsican: “Himalaia”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Himalayalar”
  • Croatian: “Himalaja”
  • Czech: “Himaláj”
  • Czech: “Himálaj”
  • Czech: “Himaláje”
  • Danish: “Himalaya”
  • Dotyali: “हिमालय”
  • Dutch: “Himalaya’s”
  • Dutch: “Himalaya”
  • Dutch: “Himalayagebergte”
  • Dzongkha: “ཧི་མ་ལ་ཡ།”
  • Eastern Mari: “Гималаи”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هيمالايا”
  • Esperanto: “Himalajo”
  • Estonian: “Himaalaja”
  • Extremaduran: “Himalaya”
  • Faroese: “Himalaia”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Himalaya”
  • Finnish: “Himalaja”
  • Finnish: “Himalaya”
  • French: “chaîne de l’Himalaya”
  • French: “Himalaya”
  • Galician: “Himalaia”
  • Gan Chinese: “喜馬拉雅山脈”
  • Georgian: “ჰიმალაი”
  • German: “Himalaja”
  • German: “Himalaya”
  • Goan Konkani: “हिमालयाचो दोंगरी वाठार”
  • Greek: “Ιμαλάια”
  • Guarani: “Himalaia”
  • Guarani: “Himaláia”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Himalaya”
  • Gujarati: “હિમાલય”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Hí-mâ-là-ngâ Sân-mak”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Himalaya Sân-mak”
  • Hausa: “Himalaya”
  • Hebrew: “הימלאיה”
  • Hebrew: “הרי ההימלאיה”
  • Hindi: “हिमालय”
  • Hungarian: “Himalája”
  • Icelandic: “Himalajafjöll”
  • Ido: “Himalaya”
  • Iloko: “Himalaya”
  • Inari Sami: “Himalaja”
  • Indonesian: “Himalaya”
  • Indonesian: “Pegunungan Himalaya”
  • Interlingua: “Himalaya”
  • Irish: “Himiléithe”
  • Italian: “Himalaya”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Imaleyaz”
  • Japanese: “ヒマラヤ”
  • Japanese: “ヒマラヤ山脈”
  • Javanese: “Himalaya”
  • Kabardian: “Гималайхэр”
  • Kabiyè: “Himalaya pʊŋ”
  • Kabyle: “Himalaya”
  • Kabyle: “Idurar n Himalaya”
  • Kannada: “ಹಿಮಾಲಯ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Gimalay tawları”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Гималайла”
  • Kashmiri: “ہِمالیَہ”
  • Kashmiri: “ہِمالیٖہٕ”
  • Kazakh: “Гималай”
  • Kirghiz: “Гималай”
  • Komering: “Pagunungan Himalaya”
  • Korean: “히말라야”
  • Korean: “히말라야산맥”
  • Kurdish: “Hîmalaya”
  • Ladin: “Himalaia”
  • Lao: “ເທືອກເຂົາຫິມະໄລ”
  • Latin: “Himalaia”
  • Latvian: “Himalaji”
  • Lezghian: “Гималаяр”
  • Lezghian: “Гьималаяр”
  • Limburgan: “Himalaya”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Himalaia”
  • Literary Chinese: “喜瑪拉雅山”
  • Lithuanian: “Himalajai”
  • Lombard: “Himalaya”
  • Low German: “Himalaya”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Himalaja”
  • Luxembourgish: “Himalaya”
  • Macedonian: “Хималаи”
  • Maithili: “हिमालय”
  • Malagasy: “Himalaya”
  • Malay: “Himalaya”
  • Malay: “هيمالايا”
  • Malayalam: “ഹിമാലയം”
  • Maori: “Himareia”
  • Maori: “Himāria”
  • Marathi: “हिमालय”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Himalaya Săng-măh”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Himalaya Soaⁿ-lêng”
  • Minangkabau: “Pagunuangan Himalaya”
  • Minangkabau: “Pagunungan Himalaya”
  • Mingrelian: “ჰიმალაი”
  • Mongolian: “Гималай”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “هيمالايا”
  • Navajo: “Dziłgaiitsoh Honeezkʼazii”
  • Nepali: “हिमालय”
  • Newari: “हिमालय”
  • Northern Frisian: “Himalaya”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Himalaya”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Himalaya”
  • Norwegian: “Himalaya”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Imalaia”
  • Oriya: “ହିମାଳୟ”
  • Ossetian: “Гималайтæ”
  • Pa'o Karen: “ဟိမဝန္တာႏကောင်ရွေꩻ”
  • Panjabi: “ਹਿਮਾਲਿਆ”
  • Persian: “هیمالیا”
  • Picard: “Imalaïa”
  • Piemontese: “Himalaya”
  • Polish: “Himalaje”
  • Portuguese: “Himalaia”
  • Portuguese: “Himalaias”
  • Pushto: “هېمالیا”
  • Quechua: “Himalaya”
  • Romanian: “Himalaya”
  • Russia Buriat: “Гималайн уула”
  • Russian: “Гималаи”
  • Rusyn: “Гімалаї”
  • Samogitian: “Himalajē”
  • Sanskrit: “हिमालय”
  • Sanskrit: “हिमालयः”
  • Santali: “ᱦᱮᱢᱟᱞ ᱵᱩᱨᱩ”
  • Sardinian: “Himalaya”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Himalaya”
  • Scots: “Himalayas”
  • Serbian: “Хималаји”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Himalaja”
  • Sicilian: “Himalaya”
  • Silesian: “Himalaje”
  • Sindhi: “هماليا”
  • Sinhala: “හිමාලය”
  • Slovak: “Himaláje”
  • Slovenian: “Himalaja”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هیمالیا داغلاری”
  • Spanish: “Himalaya”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵀⵉⵎⴰⵍⴰⵢⴰ”
  • Swahili: “Himalaya”
  • Swedish: “Himalaja”
  • Swedish: “Himalajabergen”
  • Swedish: “Himalaya”
  • Swedish: “Himalayabergen”
  • Swiss German: “Himalaya”
  • Tagalog: “Himalaya”
  • Tajik: “Ҳимолой”
  • Talysh: “Himalaj”
  • Tamil: “இமயமலை”
  • Tatar: “Гималайлар”
  • Tatar: “Һималайлар”
  • Telugu: “ఆసియా లోని ఐదు దేశాలలో వ్యాపించి వున్న పర్వతాలు”
  • Telugu: “హిమాలయాలు”
  • Thai: “เทือกเขาหิมาลัย”
  • Tibetan: “ཧི་མ་ལ་ཡ”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Himalaya”
  • Tulu: “ಹಿಮಾಲಯ ಪರ್ವತ ಸಾಲ್”
  • Turkish: “Himalaya Dağları”
  • Turkish: “Himalayalar”
  • Turkmen: “Gimalaýlar”
  • Uighur: “ھىمالايا تاغ تىزمىسى”
  • Ukrainian: “Гімалаї”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Himalaja”
  • Urdu: “سلسلہ کوہ ہمالیہ”
  • Urdu: “ہمالیہ”
  • Urdu: “ہمالے”
  • Uzbek: “Himolay”
  • Venetian: “Himalaya”
  • Veps: “Gimalajad”
  • Vietnamese: “Himalaya”
  • Võro: “Himaalaja”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Himalaya”
  • Welsh: “Himalaya”
  • Western Frisian: “Himalaya”
  • Western Mari: “Гималайвлӓ”
  • Western Panjabi: “ہمالیا”
  • Wu Chinese: “喜马拉雅山脉”
  • Yakut: “Гималаай хайалара”
  • Yakut: “Хималайа”
  • Yiddish: “הימאלייע”
  • Yoruba: “Himalaya”
  • Yue Chinese: “喜馬拉雅山”
  • Zhuang: “Megbya Hijmajlahyajsanh”
  • “Himaalaja”
  • “Himalajē”
  • “Himalaya”
  • “kulupu nena Imalaja”
  • “ma Imalaja”
  • “हिमालय”

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