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view of the Himalayas and Mount Everest as seen from space looking south-south-east from over the Tibetan Plateau . ()]] The Himalayas (also '''Himalaya''', in Asia , separating the Indian Subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau . By extension, it is also the name of the massive mountain system which includes the Himalaya proper, the Karakoram , the Hindu Kush , and a host of minor ranges extending from the Pamir Knot . The name is from Sanskrit , a Tatpurusa compound meaning "the abode of snow" (from "snow", and "abode"; see also '' Himavat ''). Oracle Education Foundation: Indian Himalayas The Himalayas stretch across , China , India , Nepal , Pakistan and Afghanistan . They are the source of three of the world's major River systems, the Indus basin, the Ganga - Brahmaputra basin and the Yangtze basin. Approximately 2.4 billion people live in the Drainage Basin of the Himalayan rivers, among them the people of Bangladesh . |
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