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) ("
eight-thousanders") are in
Pakistan, four of which are near
Concordia.
Most of Pakistan's high peaks are located in the
Karakoram range, the highest of which is
K2 8611 meter long (8,611 metres (28,251 ft)), the second-highest peak on
earth. The highest peak of
Himalayan range in Pakistan is
Nanga Parbat (8,126 metres (26,660 ft)), which is the ninth-highest peak of the world.
Following are the mountain ranges that are fully or partially included in
Pakistan:
Karakoram, including the world's second-highest peak,
K2 (8,611 m or 28,251 ft)[1]
Makran Range, a semi-desert coastal strip in the south of Balochistan, in Iran and Pakistan near the coast of the
Arabian 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 the
Mula River in east-central Balochistan south to Cape Muari (Cape Monze) west of Karachi on the Arabian Sea. The
Hill Station of Sindh at
Gorakh, 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.