List of mountain ranges in Asia

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This is a list of mountain ranges in Asia.

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style="width:15em;" |Name

! style="width:15em;" |Country

! style="width:5em;" data-sort-type="number" |'Approx. length (km)

! style="width:10em;" |Highest mountain

! style="width:5em;" data-sort-type="number" |'Max height (m)

Al Hajar MountainsOman, United Arab Emirates500Jebel Shams3,009{{cite web|title=Mountains in Oman|url=https://omantourism.gov.om/wps/portal/mot/tourism/oman/home/experiences/nature/mountains|website=omantourism.gov.om|publisher=Ministry of Tourism, Sultanate of Oman|accessdate=10 November 2017}}
Alagalla Mountain Range
(Potato Range)
Sri Lanka1,140
Alay Mountains
(Alai Mountains)
Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan350Pik Tandykul5,544
AlborzIran900{{cite web|title=Alborz Mountains|url=http://www.timeforiran.com/about-iran/iran-mountains/alborz-range/|website=TIME FOR IRAN|accessdate=11 November 2017}}Damavand5,625{{cite web|author1=Hatam Chavari, Y |author2=Djamour, Y |author3=Abolghasem, Amir |author4=Bayer, R |author5=Vaníček, P. |year=2009|title=Gravity and height measurements along the profile of Damavand mountain in Iran|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/241345938|website=ResearchGate}}
Altai MountainsRussia, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan2,000Belukha4,506
Annamite RangeLaos, Viet Nam1,100Phou Bia2,819
Anti-LebanonLebanon, Syria150Mount Hermon2,814
Mount ApoMindanao, PhilippinesMount Apo2,954
Aravalli RangeIndia692Guru Shikhar1,722
Asir MountainsSaudi Arabia, YemenJabal Sawda3,000 approx.
Barisan MountainsIndonesia1,700Mount Kerinci3,800
Caraballo MountainsPhilippines1,588
Cardamom Mountains
(Krâvanh Mountains)
Cambodia, Thailand300Phnom Aural1,813
Caucasus MountainsRussia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkey1,100Mount Elbrus5,642
Central Mountain Range
(Taiwan Mountains)
TaiwanXiuguluan Mountain3,860
Chukotka MountainsRussia1,300Iskhodnaya1,843
Chersky RangeRussia1,500Peak Pobeda3,003
Chagai HillsPakistan130Malik Naru2,412
Cordillera CentralPhilippinesMount Pulag2,922
Crocker MountainsMalaysiaMount Kinabalu4,095
Dzhugdzhur MountainsRussia700Mount Topko1,906
Eastern GhatsIndiaArma Konda{{cite book | author=Kenneth Pletcher | title=The Geography of India: Sacred and Historic Places | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mjr0X-8jrLAC&pg=PA28| date=2010 | publisher=The Rosen Publishing Group| isbn=978-16-1530-142-3 | pages=28}}1,680
GalyatPakistanMiranjani2,992
Haraz MountainsYemen
Hijaz MountainsSaudi ArabiaJabal Werqaan2,393
HimalayaNepal, Bhutan, China, India, Pakistan2,400Mount Everest8,848
Hindu KushAfghanistan, Pakistan800Tirich Mir7,708
Hindu RajPakistanKoyo Zom6,872
Japanese Alps Hida MountainsJapan105Mount Hotaka3,190
Japanese Alps Kiso MountainsJapan65Mount Kisokoma2,956
Japanese Alps Akaishi MountainsJapan120Mount Kita3,193
Kabir KuhIran, Iraq175Kan Seifi3,050
KarakoramPakistan, China, India500K28,611
Khibiny Mountains
(Khibinsky Mountains)
RussiaYudychvumchorr1,201
Khingan Mountains
(Greater Khingan)
China1,2002,035
Kitanglad Mountain RangePhilippinesMount Dulang-dulang2,941
Kirthar MountainsPakistan310Zardak Peak2,151
Knuckles Mountain Range
(Dumbara)
Sri Lanka1,863{{cite web|title=Knuckles Range in Sri Lanka|url=https://lanka.com/about/attractions/knuckles-range/|website=lanka.com|accessdate=11 November 2017}}
Kolyma Mountains
(Gydan Mountains)
Russia1,300Gora Nevskaya1,828
Koryak MountainsRussia880Mount Ledianaia2,562{{cite web|title=Koriak Mountains|url=http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Koriak+Mountains|website=The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979), on TheFreeDictionary.com}}
Kunlun MountainsChina (Tibet)3,000Liushi Shan7,167
Kuray MountainsRussia3,446{{cite book|author=Jürgen Herget|title=Reconstruction of Pleistocene Ice-dammed Lake Outburst Floods in the Altai Mountains, Siberia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RcIPYfA3OikC&pg=PA13|year=2005|publisher=Geological Society of America|isbn=978-0-8137-2386-0|page=13}}
Lower Himalayan Range
(Lesser Himalaya,
Mahabharat Range)
India, Nepal, Bhutan2,400{{cite web|title=Himalayas - Himalayan Ranges: Middle or the Lesser Himalaya|url=https://www.pmfias.com/himalayas-himalayan-ranges-shiwaliks-outer-himalayas-lesser-himalayas-greater-himalayas-trans-himalayas-purvanchal/#middle-or-the-lesser-himalaya|website=PMF IAS|date=17 January 2016}}
Margalla HillsPakistanTilla Charouni1,604
Mount CarmelIsrael39525
Mount LebanonLebanon1803090
Pamir MountainsTajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, ChinaKongur Tagh7,649
Paropamisus MountainsAfghanistan3,592 m
Pontic MountainsTurkey1,000Mount Kaçkar3,937
Salt RangePakistan175{{cite web|title=The Salt Range|url=http://www.wwfpak.org/ecoregions/SaltRange.php|publisher=WWF Pakistan|accessdate=12 November 2017}}Sakesar1,522
Sayan MountainsRussia, Mongolia1,500Mönkh Saridag3,492
Sierra MadrePhilippines680Mount Guiwan1,915
Sikhote-AlinRussia900Tordoki Yani2,090
Siwalik Range
(Churia Hills, Sub-himalaya, Outer Himalaya)
India, Nepal, Bhutan2,400{{cite web|title=Himalayas - Himalayan Ranges: Shiwalik Range|url=https://www.pmfias.com/himalayas-himalayan-ranges-shiwaliks-outer-himalayas-lesser-himalayas-greater-himalayas-trans-himalayas-purvanchal/#shiwalik-range|website=PMF IAS|date=17 January 2016}}
Spīn Ghar (Safed Koh)Afghanistan, Pakistan160{{cite book|author=Brian Glyn Williams|title=Afghanistan Declassified: A Guide to America's Longest War|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cYtXJhByzoEC&pg=PA71|year=2011|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|isbn=978-0-8122-0615-9|page=71}}Mount Sikaram4,761
Stanovoi RangeRussia9002,460{{cite book|author=John C. Dewdney|title=A Geography of the Soviet Union: Pergamon Oxford Geographies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o_PfBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA10|year=2013|publisher=Elsevier|isbn=978-1-4831-5799-3|page=10}}
Sulaiman MountainsPakistan, Afghanistan, Iran483{{cite book|title=Pakistan: An Official Handbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xfRtAAAAMAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Department of Films & Publications, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Government of Pakistan|page=19}}Loe Nekan3,578
Taurus MountainsTurkey1,500{{cite book|author1=Ravi Korisettar|author2=Michael D. Petraglia|title=Early Human Behaviour in Global Context: The Rise and Diversity of the Lower Palaeolithic Record|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=awaIAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA221|year=2003|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-82856-2|page=221}}Mount Ararat5,137{{cite book|author=Jamie Woodward|title=The Physical Geography of the Mediterranean|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B09cbd0L0pwC&pg=PT529|year=2009|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-160841-4|page=529}}
Tian Shan
(Celestial Mountains)
China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan2,900Jengish Chokosu7,439
Titiwangsa MountainsMalaysia480Gunung Korbu2,183
Toba Kakar RangeAfghanistan, Pakistan360{{cite book|author=Choudhary RahmatʻAli|title=Pakistan: The Fatherland of the Pak Nation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EPwbAAAAMAAJ|year=1947|publisher=Book Traders|page=40}}Takht-i-Sulaiman{{cite book|title=Defence Journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6IPfAAAAMAAJ|volume=18|year=1992}}3,449{{cite web|last1=Malik|first1=Arsalan|title=Peaks Of Pakistan|url=https://www.angelfire.com/al/badela/Peaks.html|access-date=12 November 2017}}
Ural MountainsRussia2,500Mount Narodnaya1,895
Verkhoyansk RangeRussia1,100Mus-Khaya2,959
Western GhatsIndia1,600Anamudi2,695
Zagros MountainsIran, Iraq1,800Qash-Mastan (Dena)4,409
Zambales MountainsPhilippines180Mount Tapulao2,037
Zamboanga CordillerasPhilippinesMount Timolan1,137

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