Mountains | MCQs

Explanation

Important Passes of Pakistan

1. Khyber Pass 

connects: Peshawar to Kabul

connects: Pakistan to Afghanistan

Height 1070 meters, 3510 feet 

2. Bolan Pass 

Connects: JCB and Sibi with Quetta 

Height: 1793 meters, 5884 feet 

3. Lowari Pass 

Connects: Chitral with Dir 

Height: 3118 meters, 10230 feet 

4. Broghil Pass 

Location: Pakistan & Afghanistan border 

Height: 3798 meters, 12460 feet 

5. Malakand Pass 

Connects: Dir with Chitral 

Height: 1362 meters, 4468 feet 

6. Shandur pass

Connects: Gupis/Gilgit with Chitral 

Height: 3700 meters, 12139 feet 

7. Khanjerab Pass (topmost in Pakistan) 

Other name: Friendship Gate

Connects: China with Pakistan 

Height: 4693 meters, 15397 feet 

8. Dorah pass

Connects: Badakhshan province of Afghanistan with Chitral 

Height: 4300 meters, 14108 feet 

9. Babusar Pass 

Connects: Mansehra/Abbottabad with Gilgit

10. Kohat Pass

Connects: Kohat with Peshawar 

11. Khojak Pass

Connects: Qilla Abdullah with Chaman

12. Tochi Pass

Connects: Ghazni with Bannu

13. Karakar Pass

Connects: Mingora with Buner 

Explanation

K2, at 8,611 metres above sea level

It is the second highest mountain in the world.

Mount Everest at 8,848 metres.

It is located on the China–Pakistan border between Baltistan in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of northern Pakistan.

Explanation

The point where the Karakoram, Hindu Kush, and Himalayan mountain ranges meet the Pamir Mountains

It is near the junction of the borders of China, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. 

The Tibetan Plateau (Pamir Plateau) is known as the Roof of the World.

It's also the thickest crust in the world, between 70 and 90 kilometers.

The plateau is the world's largest and highest.

Its average elevation is more than 4,500 meters (14,764 feet).

Explanation

·         K2 also called Mount Godwin Austen, called locally Dapsang or Chogori,

·         The world's second-highest peak

·         K2 height in feet 28,251

·         K2 height in meters 8,611 meters

·         K2 second only to Mount Everest.

Explanation

Explanation

Their average height varies between 600 and 1200 meters,

Sub-Himalayan range of the northern Indian subcontinent.

Sub-Himalayas are also known as Siwalik or Outer Himalayas.

 The range spans the modern-day countries of :

1. Pakistan,
2. India,
3. Nepal,
4. and Bhutan.

Explanation

The Karakorum Range is located in the north of Pakistan.

It includes some of the world's highest peaks like K2.

It lies between the Himalayas and the Hindu Kush ranges.

Explanation

Tilla Jogian is a historic and religious site situated in the Pothohar Plateau, Punjab,.

Mountain in the Salt Range of Pakistan's Punjab province.

The complex was the most important center for Hindu jogis in Punjab before 1947. 

Height: 975 meters 

Abandoned: 1947

Part of: Mountain

Explanation

Physiographic distribution can be expressed in percentage of the total area as follows: 30 % Mountains 27.7% Plateaus 

58% area of Pakistan is covered by Mountains and plateaus 

42% by plains and detests

13% Mountain region is covered by glaciers in Pakistan.

Almost 60% of the geographical area of Pakistan is rangeland.

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Explanation

Malam Jabba is a hill station and ski resort in the Hindu Kush mountain ranges.

Malam Jabba is nearly 40 km far from Saidu Sharif in the Swat Valley of KPK.