Prelims ask
Two countries. Tirich Mir. Do not merge this range with the Karakoram on a match-list.
Asia · Young fold
Hindu Kush
- Countries
- Southwest to northeast: Afghanistan and Pakistan.
- Length
- About 800 km.
- Orientation
- Southwest–northeast.
- Mountain type
- Young fold
- Plates
- Western end of the Indian–Eurasian collision.
- Highest peak
- Tirich Mir, 7,708 m, Pakistan.
- Rivers that rise here
- Kabul river joins the Indus. Helmand rises in the Hindu Kush system and ends in the Hamun lakes — inland drainage.
- Climate and rain shadow
- A divide between the arid Iranian–Afghan plateau and the valleys that feed the Indus.
Mains use
Western continuation of the Alpine–Himalayan belt, with an inland-drainage example in the Helmand.