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Karakoram Range

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Ka·ra·ko·ram Range also Ka·ra·ko·rum Range  (kr-kôrm, -kr-, kär-)
A mountain system of northern Pakistan and India and southwest China. An extension of the Hindu Kush, it rises to 8,616.3 m (28,250 ft) at K2, the second-highest mountain in the world.
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Noun1.Karakoram Range - a mountain range in northern Kashmir; an extension of the Hindu Kush; contains the 2nd highest peak
Karakoram, Karakorum Range, Mustagh, Mustagh Range
Jammu and Kashmir, Kashmir, Cashmere - an area in southwestern Asia whose sovereignty is disputed between Pakistan and India
Gasherbrum - a mountain in northern Kashmir (26,470 feet high)
Dapsang, Godwin Austen, K2, Mount Godwin Austen - a mountain peak in the Karakoram Range in northern Kashmir; the 2nd highest peak in the world (28,250 feet high)
Rakaposhi - a mountain peak in the Karakoram Range in northern Kashmir (25,560 feet high)


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The mountains towering into the azure sky above our heads are part of the eastern Karakoram Range.
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Karimabad is the biggest village in the Hunza Valley, an amazingly remote outpost of humanity high in northern Pakistan(1) where the Hindu Kush, Little Pamir and Karakoram ranges collide (AR December 1996, p 11).
Hunza hope by Davey, Peter / The Architectural Review
K2 derives its name from its status as the second peak surveyed in the Karakoram Range of the western Himalayas.
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