List of mountain ranges


This is a list of mountain ranges on Earth and a few other astronomical bodies. First, the highest and longest mountain ranges on Earth are listed, followed by more comprehensive alphabetical lists organized by continent. Ranges in the oceans and on other celestial bodies are listed afterwards.

Mountain ranges on Earth

By height

These are the 23 highest mountain ranges. All are above.
NameContinentCountry/iesHighest PointHighest Point's Altitude
Himalayas*AsiaIndia, Nepal, Bhutan, China, Pakistan, AfghanistanEverest
Karakoram*AsiaPakistan, China, India, Tajikistan, AfghanistanK2
Hindu Kush*AsiaAfghanistan, Pakistan, TajikistanTirich Mir
Pamirs**AsiaTajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Afghanistan, PakistanKongur Tagh
Hengduan Mountains*AsiaChina, MyanmarMount Gongga
Tian Shan**AsiaChina, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, TajikistanJengish Chokusu
Kunlun**AsiaChinaLiushi Shan
Transhimalaya*AsiaChinaMount Nyenchen Tanglha
AndesSouth AmericaArgentina, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, VenezuelaAconcagua
Kangri Karpo*AsiaChinaBairiga
Hindu Raj*AsiaPakistanKoyo Zom
Tanggula Mountains**AsiaChinaGeladaindong Peak
Altyn-Tagh**AsiaChinaSulamutag Feng
Alaska RangeNorth AmericaUnited StatesDenali
Saint Elias MountainsNorth AmericaUnited States, CanadaMount Logan
Qilian Mountains**AsiaChinaKangze Gyai
Sierra Nevada de Santa MartaSouth AmericaColombiaPico Cristóbal Colón
Caucasus MountainsEurope and AsiaArmenia, Georgia, Russia, AzerbaijanMount Elbrus
Trans-Mexican Volcanic BeltNorth AmericaMexicoPico de Orizaba
Pamir-Alay**AsiaKyrgyzstan, Kazakhistan, Uzbekistan, TajikistanPik Skalisty
AlborzAsiaIranMount Damavand
Armenian HighlandsAsiaArmenia, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iran, GeorgiaMount Ararat
Rwenzori MountainsAfricaUganda, Democratic Republic of the CongoMount Stanley

* Part of the Hindu Kush-Himalayas region
** Part of the Pamir-Kunlun region
All of the Asian ranges above except the Alborz and the Armenian Highlands 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 and this page may need to be updated in a few years; 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.

By prominence

Mountain ranges by length

Mountain systems, Himalayan ranges and chains by length :
  1. The underwater Mid-ocean ridge –
  2. Ring of Fire –
  3. #American Cordillera –
  4. ##Andes –. Northern and Southern Andes main subdivisions, along both run three vast, almost parallel chain systems of mountain ranges – Cordillera Occidental, Cordillera Central and Cordillera Oriental.
  5. ##North American Cordillera –
  6. Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt – more than
  7. #Hindu Kush-Himalayas region –
  8. Great Escarpment, Southern Africa –
  9. #Drakensberg –
  10. Rocky Mountains –
  11. Great Dividing Range –
  12. Transantarctic Mountains –
  13. Kunlun Mountains –
  14. Atlas Mountains –
  15. Ural Mountains –
  16. Appalachian Mountains –
  17. Himalayas – c.
  18. #High Himalayas –
  19. #Sivalik Hills –
  20. #Lesser Himalayas –
  21. Altai mountain system –
  22. New Guinea Highlands –
  23. Barisan Mountains – c.
  24. Carpathian Mountains –
  25. Scandinavian Mountains – c.
  26. Verkhoyansk Range-Suntar-Khayata Range –
  27. #Verkhoyansk Range –
  28. #Suntar-Khayata Range –
  29. Coast Mountains –
  30. Qin Mountains –
  31. Transhimalaya –
  32. Western Ghats –
  33. Chersky Range –
  34. Peninsular mountain ranges –
  35. Serra do Mar –
  36. Taurus Mountains –
  37. Zagros Mountains –
  38. Sierra Madre Occidental –
  39. Mantiqueira Mountains/Espinhaço Mountains –
  40. Kolyma Mountains –
  41. Alps –
  42. #Western Alps – approx.
  43. ##French Prealps – more than
  44. #Eastern Alps – approx.
  45. ##Central Eastern Alps – approx.
  46. ##Northern Limestone Alps – approx.
  47. ##Southern Limestone Alps and Western Limestone Alps – approx.
  48. Apennines –
  49. Caucasus Mountains –
  50. #Greater Caucasus –
  51. #Lesser Caucasus –
  52. Cordillera Occidental –
  53. Cordillera Oriental –
  54. Vindhya Range –
  55. Altai Mountains – 1,200 km
  56. Drakensberg –
  57. Byrranga Mountains –
  58. Cascade Range –
  59. Annamite Range –
  60. Brooks Range –
  61. Verkhoyansk Range –
  62. Cordillera Central –
  63. Lena Plateau –
  64. Pontic Mountains –
  65. Eastern Sayan Mountains –
  66. Sierra Madre del Sur –
  67. Arakan/Rakhine Mountains –
  68. Hengduan Mountains – as a system of mountain ranges
  69. Ogo Mountains – 900 km
  70. Koryak Mountains –
  71. Cape Fold Belt –
  72. Hindu Kush –
  73. Precordillera –
  74. Dzhugdzhur Mountains –
  75. Stanovoy Highlands –
  76. Aravalli Range –
  77. Alaska Range –
  78. Kopet Mountains –
  79. Sette-Daban –
  80. Dinaric Mountains –
  81. Sierra Nevada –
  82. California Coast Ranges –
  83. Balkan Mountains –
  84. Karakoram –
  85. Southern Alps –
  86. Yudoma-Maya Highlands –

    By continents

Africa

  1. Aberdare ranges, Kenya
  2. Ahaggar Mountains, Algeria
  3. Ahmar Mountains, Ethiopia
  4. Amaro Mountains, Ethiopia
  5. Atlantika Mountains, Cameroon, Nigeria
  6. Atlas Mountains, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia
  7. #Anti-Atlas, Morocco
  8. #Aurès Mountains, Algeria, Tunisia
  9. #High Atlas, Morocco
  10. #Middle Atlas, Morocco
  11. #Saharan Atlas, Algeria
  12. #Tell Atlas, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia
  13. Bale Mountains, Ethiopia
  14. Bakossi Mountains, Cameroon
  15. Blue Mountains, Niger
  16. Bvumba Mountains, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
  17. Cal Madow, Somalia
  18. Cederberg, South Africa
  19. Danakil Alps, Ethiopia, Eritrea
  20. Drakensberg, Lesotho, South Africa
  21. Eastern Arc Mountains, Kenya, Tanzania
  22. Eastern Highlands, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
  23. Entoto Mountains, Ethiopia
  24. Erta Ale Range, Ethiopia
  25. Golis Mountains, Somalia
  26. Khufleh Range, Somalia
  27. Kilimanjaro and Meru, Tanzania
  28. Kipengere Range, Tanzania
  29. Lebombo Mountains, Mozambique
  30. Magaliesberg, South Africa
  31. Mahale Mountains, Tanzania
  32. Mandara Mountains, Cameroon, Nigeria
  33. Moka Range, Mauritius
  34. Ogo Mountains, Somalia
  35. Outeniqua, South Africa
  36. Pare Mountains, Tanzania
  37. Piton des Neiges – Piton de la Fournaise, Réunion
  38. Rif, Morocco
  39. Rwenzori, Uganda
  40. Semien, Ethiopia
  41. Swartberg, South Africa
  42. Tadrat Acacus, Libya
  43. Tibesti Mountains, Chad
  44. Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania
  45. Uluguru Mountains, Tanzania
  46. Usambara Mountains, Tanzania

    Antarctica

  47. Allardyce Range, South Georgia
  48. Imeon Range, Smith Island
  49. Pensacola Mountains
  50. Salvesen Range, South Georgia
  51. Tangra Mountains, Livingston Island
  52. Transantarctic Mountains
  53. #Queen Maud Mountains
  54. ##Bush Mountains
  55. ##Commonwealth Range
  56. ##Dominion Range
  57. ##Gothic Mountains
  58. ##Green Range
  59. ##Herbert Range
  60. ##Prince Olav Mountains
  61. ##Hughes Range
  62. ##Supporters Range
  63. #Theron Mountains
  64. Heimefront Range, Queen Maud Land
  65. Borg Massif, Queen Maud Land
  66. Fimbulheimen, Queen Maud Land
  67. #Gburek Peaks
  68. #Sverdrup Mountains
  69. #Gjelsvik Mountains
  70. #Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains
  71. #Orvin Mountains
  72. ##Filchner Mountains
  73. ##Drygalski Mountains
  74. ##Kurze Mountains
  75. ##Gagarin Mountains
  76. ##Conrad Mountains
  77. #Wohlthat Mountains
  78. ##Humboldt Mountains
  79. ##Petermann Ranges
  80. ##Gruber Mountains
  81. #Hoel Mountains
  82. ##Weyprecht Mountains
  83. ##Payer Mountains
  84. #Lomonosov Mountains
  85. Sør Rondane Mountains, Queen Maud Land
  86. Belgica Mountains, Queen Maud Land
  87. Planet Heights
  88. Queen Fabiola Mountains, Queen Maud Land
  89. Aristotle Mountains, Graham Land
  90. #Pippin Peaks
  91. Stribog Mountains, Brabant Island
  92. Solvay Mountains, Brabant Island
  93. Brugmann Mountains, Liège Island
  94. Executive Committee Range

    Asia

  95. Alagalla Mountain Range, Sri Lanka
  96. Alborz, Iran
  97. Al-Hajar Mountains, Oman, United Arab Emirates
  98. Altai Mountains, Russia, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan
  99. Annamite Range, Laos, Vietnam
  100. Anti-Lebanon, Lebanon, Syria, Israel
  101. Aravalli Range, India
  102. Asir Mountains, Saudi Arabia
  103. Barisan Mountains, Indonesia
  104. Caraballo Mountains, Philippines
  105. Cardamom Mountains, Cambodia
  106. Carmel Mountains, Israel
  107. Caucasus, Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkey
  108. Chersky Range, Russia
  109. Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh
  110. Cordillera Central, Philippines
  111. Crocker Range, Malaysia
  112. Dieng Volcanic Complex, Indonesia
  113. Dzhugdzhur Mountains, Russia
  114. Eastern Ghats, India
  115. Fansipan, Vietnam
  116. Haraz Mountains, Yemen
  117. Hijaz Mountains
  118. Himalaya, Nepal, Bhutan, China, India, Pakistan
  119. #Mahabharat Range or Lesser Himalaya
  120. #Siwalik Range or Churia Hills, Subhimalaya
  121. Hindu Kush, Afghanistan, Pakistan
  122. Japanese Alps, Japan
  123. #Akaishi Mountains
  124. #Hida Mountains
  125. #Kiso Mountains
  126. Judaean Mountains, Palestine, Israel
  127. Kabir Kuh, Iran, Iraq
  128. Karakoram, Pakistan, China, India
  129. Khingan Mountains, China, Russia
  130. #Greater Khingan
  131. #Lesser Khingan
  132. Khibinsky Mountains, Russia
  133. Kirthar Mountains, Pakistan
  134. Knuckles Mountain Range, Sri Lanka
  135. Kolyma Mountains Russia
  136. Koryak Mountains Russia
  137. Kunlun Mountains, China
  138. Kuray Mountains, Russia
  139. Mount Lebanon Range, Lebanon
  140. Müller Mountains, Central Borneo, Indonesia
  141. Pamir Mountains, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, China
  142. Pontic Mountains, Turkey
  143. Phnom Kulen, Cambodia
  144. Phnom Voar, Cambodia
  145. Safed Koh, Afghanistan, Pakistan
  146. Salt Range, Pakistan
  147. Sayan Mountains, Russia
  148. Sivalik Hills range of outer Himalayas, India
  149. Sierra Madre, Philippines
  150. Sikhote Alin Mountains, Russia
  151. Stanovoi Range, Russia
  152. Sudirman Range, Indonesia
  153. Sulaiman Mountains, Pakistan, Iran
  154. Ta Kream Mountain Range, Cambodia
  155. Taurus Mountains, Turkey
  156. Toba Kakar Range, Afghanistan, Pakistan
  157. Tian Shan, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan
  158. Taiwan Mountains, Taiwan
  159. Tengger Mountains, Indonesia
  160. Titiwangsa Mountains, Malaysia
  161. Ural Mountains, Russia
  162. Verkhoyansk Range, Russia
  163. Western Ghats, India
  164. Zagros Mountains, Iran, Iraq
  165. Zambales Mountains, Philippines
  166. Zamboanga Cordilleras, Philippines