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About Himalayas
The Indian subcontinent and the rest of Asia are on different continental plates that are colliding; the Himalayas and related ranges are along the boundary of the plates. The force of the collision creates the world's highest mountains. North of the Himalayas is the Tibetan Plateau, the world's largest and highest (over 3000m on average) plateau. It includes all ofTibetand the Chinese province ofQinghaiplus parts of several other provinces. A few centuries back, theTibetan Empirecovered approximately the same area as the plateau. The ranges of the Greater Himalaya define several borders. The Himalaya proper is on the southern border of Tibet, hence the China-India border, and the China-Pakistan border is in the Karakoram Range. The western border of China runs approximately along the Tian
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