Northern Mountain
Mount Everest
Three moutain systems are the Hindu Kush, the Karakoram, and the Himalaya's.Himalaya's range is the highest mountain system in the world.It is also the most noticable terrain feature of the subcontinent. The Himalaya's were formed about 50 million years ago. There is also Khyber Pass between Afghanistan and Pakistan. For centuries trading caravans and conquering armies marched through the Khyber Pass and on to India. The biggest mountain is Mount Everest.
The rivers of South Asia
Indus River
There are three great rivers in South Asia. Those rivers are the Indus, the Ganges, and the Brahmaputra.The Indus river begins north of the Himalaya in Tibet, China, and flows southwest through Pakistan to the Arabian Sea. In eastern India Ganges rivers turns south through Bangladesh. There it combines with the Brahmaputra River to from the worlds largest delta.