List of mountain ranges

Physiographic world map with mountain ranges and highland areas in brown and gray colors

This is a list of mountain ranges organized alphabetically by continent. Ranges on other astronomical bodies are listed afterward.

Earth[edit]

By length[edit]

Mid-ocean ridge - 40,389 km (25,097 mi)
Andes - 7,000 km (4,300 mi)
Rocky Mountains - 4,830 km (3,000 mi)
Great Dividing Range - 3,500 km (2,200 mi)
Transantarctic Mountains - 3,500 km (2,200 mi)
Kunlun Mountains - 3,000 km (1,900 mi)
Ural Mountains - 2,500 km (1,600 mi)
Atlas Mountains - 2,500 km (1,553 mi)
Appalachian Mountains - 2,414 km (1,500 mi)
Himalayas - 2,400 km (1,491 mi)
Altai Mountains - 2,000 km (1,243 mi)
Carpathian Mountains - 1,700 km (1,100 mi)
Kjølen - ca 1,700 km (1,056 mi)
Barisan Mountains - ca 1,700 km (1,056 mi)
Coast Mountains - 1,600 km (990 mi)
Qin Mountains - 1,600 km (990 mi)
Western Ghats - 1,600 km (990 mi)
Serra do Mar - 1,500 km (932 mi)
Taurus Mountains - 1,500 km (930 mi)
Zagros Mountains-1,500 km (930 mi)
Sierra Madre Occidental - 1,500 km (930 mi)
Mantiqueira Mountains/Espinhaço Mountains - 1,320 km (820 mi)
Greater Caucasus - 1,200 km (750 mi)
Vindhya Range - 1,200 km (750 mi)
Alps - 1,200 km (750 mi)
Apennines - 1,200 km (750 mi)
Drakensberg - 1,125 km (699 mi)
Cascade Mountains - 1,100 km (684 mi)
Annamite Range - 1,100 km (680 mi)
Brooks Range - 1,100 km (680 mi)
U.S. Interior Highlands
Aravalli Range - 800 km (500 mi)
Southern Alps - 600 km (370 mi)

By height[edit]

1. Himalaya- Asia; India, China, Nepal, Pakistan, Bhutan; highest point- Everest; 8848 meters above sea level.
2. Karakoram (part of Greater Himalayas)- Asia: Pakistan, China, India; highest point- K2, 8611 meters above sea level.
3. Hindu Kush (part of Greater Himalayas)- Asia: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Indian claim due to Kashmir dispute); highest point- Tirich Mir, 7708 meters above sea level.
4. Pamirs (part of Greater Himalayas)- Asia: Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Afghanistan; highest point- Kongur Tagh, 7649 meters above sea level, a peak included in the "Eastern Pamirs" ^[1] more often than in the Kunlun Mountains, as Kongur Tagh and the Kunlun range are separated by the large Yarkand River valley; no valley of such significance separates the Pamirs and Kongur Tagh, just political boundaries.
5. Hengduan Mountains (part of Greater Himalayas)-Asia: China, Myanmar; highest point- Mount Gongga, 7556 meters above sea level.
6. Tian Shan- Asia: China, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan; highest point- Jengish Chokusu, 7439 meters above sea level.
7. Kunlun (part of Greater Himalayas)- Asia: China; highest point- Liushi Shan, 7167 meters above sea level.
8. Nyenchen Tanglha (part of Greater Himalayas)- Asia; China; highest point- Mount Nyenchen Tanglha, 7162 meters above sea level.
9. Andes- South America: Argentina, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela; highest point- Aconcagua, 6962 meters above sea level.
10. Alaska Range- North America: United States; highest point- Denali, 6194 meters above sea level.

All of the Asian ranges above have been formed in part over the past 35 to 55 million years by the collision between the Indian Plate and Eurasian Plate. The Indian Plate is still particularly mobile and these mountain ranges continue to rise in elevation every year; of these the Himalayas are rising most quickly; the Kashmir and Pamirs region to the north of the Indian subcontinent is the point of confluence of these mountains which encircle the Tibetan Plateau on three sides.