Mountain ranges in NorthernPakistan as seen from spaceKarakoram range as seen fromInternational Space Station.Satellite image of a part of the Sulaiman Range.Labelled mountain ranges of Pakistan on map, photograph by NASA.
Pakistan is home to many mountains above 7,000 metres (22,970 ft). Five of the world's fourteen mountains taller than 8,000 metres (26,000 ft) referred as "eight-thousanders" are inPakistan, four of which are nearConcordia.
Most of Pakistan's high peaks are located in theKarakoram range, the highest of which isK2 with a height of 8,611 metres (28,251 ft), the second-highest peak onearth. The highest peak ofHimalayan range in Pakistan isNanga Parbat (8,126 metres (26,660 ft)), which is the ninth-highest peak of the world.
Makran Range, a semi-desert coastal strip in the south of Balochistan, in Iran and Pakistan near the coast of theArabian Sea. The narrow coastal plain rises very rapidly into several mountain ranges. Of its 1,000-kilometre (620 mi) extent, about 750 kilometres (470 mi) is in Pakistan.
Kirthar Range, located along the Balochistan and Sindh provincial border. It runs north-south for about 300 kilometres (186 mi) from theMula River in east-central Balochistan south to Cape Muari (Cape Monze) west of Karachi on the Arabian Sea. TheHill Station of Sindh atGorakh, in Kirthar Mountains Range, off Dadu, at the height of 5,688 feet (1,734 m), averaging 5,500 feet (1,700 m), is one of the two large plateaus in the Sindh segment of Kirthar mountains.
Kirana Hills, The Kirana Hills is a small and extensive rocky mountain range located in Chiniot and Rabwah, Pakistan. Kirana-I nuclear tests were conducted in these hills.
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