Transhimalaya
The Transhimalaya, or Gangdise – Nyenchen Tanglha range, is a 1,600-kilometre-long mountain range in China, India and Nepal, extending in a west–east direction parallel to the main Himalayan range.- Type: Mountain range
- Description: mountain range in China, parallel to the main Himalayan range
- Also known as: “横贯喜马拉雅”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Nyenchen Tanglha.
Mount Nyenchen Tanglha
Peak
Photo: Brookqi, Public domain.
Mount Nyenchen Tanglha is the highest peak of Nyenchen Tanglha Mountains, which together with the Gangdise range form the Transhimalaya.
Transhimalaya
- Category: landform
- Location: Lhasa, Tibet, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
30.36° or 30° 21′ 36″ northLongitude
90.559° or 90° 33′ 32″ eastOpen location code
8M2G9H55+XHOpenStreetMap ID
node 5155973962OpenStreetMap feature
natural=mountain_rangeWikidata ID
Q593003
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Satellite Map
Discover Transhimalaya from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Transhimalaya” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ما وراء همالايا”
- Arabic: “ما وراء هملايا”
- Arabic: “ما وراء هيمالايا”
- Armenian: “Անդրհիմալայներ”
- Armenian: “Հանդիսիշան”
- Basque: “Transhimalaia”
- Belarusian: “Трансгімалаі”
- Bhojpuri: “ट्रांस हिमालय”
- Bhojpuri: “ट्रांस-हिमालय”
- Bhojpuri: “ट्रांसहिमालय”
- Bhojpuri: “परा हिमालय”
- Bhojpuri: “पार हिमालय”
- Bulgarian: “Гандисъшан”
- Bulgarian: “Трансхималаи”
- Catalan: “Transhimàlaia”
- Chinese: “冈底斯-念青唐古拉山脉”
- Chinese: “冈底斯山”
- Chinese: “冈底斯山脉”
- Chinese: “外喜馬拉雅山”
- Chinese: “外喜马拉雅山”
- Chinese: “岗底斯山脉”
- Chinese: “岡底斯山”
- Chinese: “岡底斯山脈”
- Czech: “Hedinovo pohoří”
- Czech: “Transhimálaj”
- Dutch: “Trans-Himalaya”
- Dutch: “Transhimalaya”
- Esperanto: “Transhimalajo”
- Estonian: “Transhimaalaja”
- French: “Transhimalaya”
- Georgian: “განდისიშანი”
- German: “Gandise-Nyainqentanglha-Gebirgskette”
- German: “Gangdisê-Nyainqêntanglha”
- German: “Hedingebirge”
- German: “Transhimalaya”
- Greek: “Υπεριμαλάϊα”
- Hindi: “पारहिमालय”
- Hungarian: “Transzhimalája”
- Italian: “Transhimalaya”
- Japanese: “カンティセ山脈”
- Japanese: “ガンディセ山脈”
- Japanese: “トランスヒマラヤ山脈”
- Kashmiri: “اَپور ہِمالیہ”
- Ladin: “Transhimalaya”
- Lithuanian: “Transhimalajai”
- Malayalam: “ഉപരി ഹിമാലയം”
- Malayalam: “ട്രാൻഷിമാലയ”
- Nepali: “हिमालपारी हिमश्रृङ्खला”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Transhimalaya”
- Persian: “ترانشیمالایا”
- Polish: “Kangtisy-szan”
- Polish: “Transhimalaje”
- Portuguese: “Transimalaia”
- Russian: “Трансгималаи”
- Slovak: “Hedinovo pohorie”
- Slovak: “Transhimaláje”
- Slovenian: “Transhimalaja”
- Spanish: “Trans-Himalayas”
- Spanish: “Transhimalaya”
- Swedish: “Trans-Himalaya”
- Swedish: “Transhimalaya”
- Turkish: “Transhimalaya”
- Ukrainian: “Трансгімалаї”
- Uzbek: “Gandisishan”
- Uzbek: “Transhimolay tog‘lari”
- Uzbek: “Transhimolay Tog‘lari”
- Uzbek: “Transhimolay togʻlari”
- Uzbek: “Transhimolay Togʻlari”
- Venetian: “Transhimalaya”
- Western Panjabi: “پار ہمالیا”
- Western Panjabi: “پارہمالیہ”
- “ट्रांस हिमालय”
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