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Hindu Kush

The Hindu Kush is a mountain range, a spur running southwest off the Pamir Knot, which is a large clump of high ground at the western end of the .
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  • Type: Mountain range
  • Description: mountain range in Afghanistan and Pakistan
  • Also known as: “Caucasus”, “Hindukush”, “Pāriyātra Parvata”, and “Paropamisadae”

Hindu Kush

Latitude
36.27° or 36° 16′ 12″ north
Longitude
71.78° or 71° 46′ 48″ east
Open location code
8J8H7QCJ+22
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5156462221
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­mountain_range
Wiki­data ID
Q5472
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Hindu Kush” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Hindoekoesj”
  • Arabic: “هندو كوش”
  • Arabic: “هندوكوش”
  • Armenian: “Հինդուկուշ”
  • Asturian: “Hindú Kush”
  • Awadhi: “हिन्दु कुश”
  • Azerbaijani: “Hinduquş dağları”
  • Bashkir: “Һиндукуш”
  • Basque: “Hindu Kush”
  • Belarusian: “Гіндукуш”
  • Bengali: “হিন্দুকুশ পর্বতমালা”
  • Breton: “Hindu Kush”
  • Bulgarian: “Хиндукуш”
  • Catalan: “Hindu Kush”
  • Cebuano: “Hindū Kush”
  • Central Bikol: “Hindu Kush”
  • Central Kurdish: “ھیندۆکوش”
  • Chinese: “興都庫什山脈”
  • Croatian: “Hindukuš”
  • Czech: “Hindúkuš”
  • Danish: “Hindu Kush”
  • Dutch: “Hindoekoesj”
  • Dutch: “Hindu Kush”
  • Esperanto: “Hindukuŝo”
  • Estonian: “Hindukuš”
  • Finnish: “Hindukuš”
  • French: “Hindou Kouch”
  • French: “Hindu Kush”
  • Galician: “Hindu Kush”
  • Georgian: “ჰინდუქუში”
  • German: “Hindukusch”
  • Gilaki: “هندوکش (بۊئين ؤ مياندشت)”
  • Gilaki: “هندوکش”
  • Greek: “Ινδοκούς”
  • Greek: “Ινδοκούχος”
  • Greek: “Τίριχ Μιρ”
  • Greek: “Χίντου Κους”
  • Hebrew: “הינדו-כוש”
  • Hindi: “हिन्दु कुश”
  • Hungarian: “Hindukus”
  • Icelandic: “Hindu Kush-fjallgarðurinn”
  • Icelandic: “Hindu Kush”
  • Indonesian: “Hindu Kush”
  • Irish: “Hindu Kush”
  • Italian: “Hindu Kush”
  • Italian: “Hindū Kūsh”
  • Italian: “Hindukush”
  • Japanese: “ヒンズークシ山脈”
  • Japanese: “ヒンドゥークシュ山脈”
  • Japanese: “ヒンドゥークシ山脈”
  • Javanese: “Hindu Kush”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Gindukush”
  • Kashmiri: “ہِندو کُش”
  • Kirghiz: “Гиндукуш”
  • Korean: “힌두쿠시산맥”
  • Kurdish: “Çiyayên Hindokujê”
  • Kurdish: “Çiyayên Hindokûşê”
  • Ladin: “Hinducusc”
  • Lao: “ເທືອກເຂົາຮີນດູກູຊ”
  • Latin: “Paropamisus”
  • Latvian: “Hindukušs”
  • Lithuanian: “Hindukušas”
  • Macedonian: “Хиндукуш”
  • Maithili: “हिन्दु कुश”
  • Malay: “Hindu Kush”
  • Malayalam: “ഹിന്ദുകുഷ്”
  • Marathi: “हिंदुकुश पर्वतरांग”
  • Marathi: “हिंदुकुश”
  • Mazanderani: “هندوکش”
  • Nepali: “हिन्दु कुश”
  • Nepali: “हिन्दुकुश”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hindu Kush”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hindukush”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hindukush”
  • Norwegian: “Hindukush”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Hindu Kush”
  • Oriya: “ହିନ୍ଦୁ କୁଶ”
  • Oriya: “ହିନ୍ଦୁକୁଶ ପର୍ବତମାଳା”
  • Ossetian: “Гиндукуш”
  • Panjabi: “ਹਿੰਦੂ ਕੁਸ਼”
  • Persian: “هندوکش”
  • Polish: “Hindukusz”
  • Polish: “Kūh-e Hind”
  • Portuguese: “Hindu Kush”
  • Portuguese: “Indocuche”
  • Pushto: “هندوکش”
  • Romanian: “Munții Hindukuș”
  • Russian: “Гиндукуш”
  • Scots: “Hindu Kush”
  • Serbian: “Hindukuš”
  • Serbian: “Хиндукуш”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hindu Kush”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hindukuš”
  • Sindhi: “هندوڪش”
  • Sindhi: “ھندوڪش”
  • Slovak: “Hindúkuš”
  • Slovenian: “Hindukuš”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هیندوکوش داغلاری”
  • Spanish: “Hindu Kush”
  • Spanish: “Hindú Kush”
  • Swahili: “Hindu Kush”
  • Swedish: “Hindukush”
  • Tagalog: “Hindu Kush”
  • Tamil: “இந்து குஃசு”
  • Tatar: “Һиндукуш”
  • Tatar: “Һиндуку́ш”
  • Telugu: “హిందూ కుష్”
  • Thai: “เทือกเขาฮินดูกูช”
  • Turkish: “Hindukuş Dağları”
  • Ukrainian: “Гіндукуш”
  • Urdu: “سلسلہ کوہ ہندوکش”
  • Urdu: “ہندو کش”
  • Urdu: “ہندوکش”
  • Uzbek: “Hindukush”
  • Venetian: “Hindu Kush”
  • Vietnamese: “Hindu Kush”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hindu Kush”
  • Welsh: “Hindu Kush”
  • Western Panjabi: “سلسلہ کوہ ہندوکش”
  • Western Panjabi: “ہندو کش”
  • Western Panjabi: “ہندوکش”
  • Wu Chinese: “兴都库什山脉”
  • Yiddish: “הינדו קוש”
  • Yue Chinese: “興都庫什山脈”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Hindu Kush”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.