Mountain ranges of Pakistan

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Highest peaks of Pakistan as seen from space

Highest Karakoram peaks as seen from International Space Station

Satellite image of a part of the Sulaiman Range.

Pakistan is home to many mountains above 7,000 metres (22,970 ft). Five of the fourteen eight-
thousanders (peaks above 8,000 m) are in Pakistan, four of which are in Karakoram near
Concordia.

Most of the high peaks in Pakistan are in Karakoram range, the highest of which is K2 (8,611
m), the second highest peak on earth. The highest peak of Himalayan range in Pakistan is Nanga
Parbat (8,126 m), which is the ninth highest peak of the world.

Following are the mountain ranges that are fully or partially included in Pakistan:

 Karakoram range, highest peak is K2 (8,611 m or 28,244 feet).[1] including K2, the
second highest peak of the world (8,611 m/28,251 ft)
 Himalaya range, highest peak in Pakistan is Nanga Parbat (8,126 m or 26,653 feet).[2]
 Hindu Kush range, highest peak is Tirich Mir (7,690 metres or 25,230 feet).
 Pamir Mountains, junction of the Tian Shan, Karakoram, Kunlun, and Hindu Kush
ranges.
 Hindu Raj Hindu Raj is a mountain range in northern Pakistan, between the Hindu Kush
and the Karakoram ranges.
 Sulaiman Mountains range, highest peak is Takht-e-Sulaiman (3,487 m or 11,437 feet).
 Spin Ghar Mountains range, highest peak is Mount Sikaram (4,761 m or 15,620 feet)
 Salt Range, highest peak is Sakaser (1,522 m or 4,946 feet), a hill system in the Punjab
Province, abundant in salt
 Margalla Hills, mountain range in Punjab. Tilla Charouni with 1604 m / 5263 feet is the
highest peak.
 Toba Kakar Range, southern offshoot of the Himalayas in the Balochistan

 Makran range, semi-desert coastal strip in the south of Balochistan, in Iran and Pakistan,
along the coast of the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman. The narrow coastal plain rises
very rapidly into several mountain ranges. Of the 1,000 km coastline, about 750 km is in
Pakistan

 Kirthar Range, is located in the Balochistan and Sindh provinces of Pakistan. It extends
from north, southward for about 300 kilometres (186 mi) from the Mula River in east-
central Balochistan to Cape Muari (Cape Monze) west of Karachi on the Arabian Sea.

The upcoming 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.

 Aravalli Range: literally meaning 'line of peaks', is a range of mountains in western India
and eastern Pakistan running approximately 800 km from northwest to southwest across
Indian states of Rajasthan, Haryana, and Gujarat and Pakistani provinces of Punjab and
Sindh. It is also called Mewat hills locally.