Mountain ranges
Mountain Ranges of the World Quiz
The Himalayas, the Andes, the Alps and 37 more: find 40 of the world’s great mountain ranges on the map, name them in 6 minutes, or learn them first.
Every range is labelled. Tap or click one (or pick it from the list) to see its highest peak, its length and the countries it crosses. Zoom in to see every name.
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Sources and notes
40 of the world’s great mountain ranges, at least two on every continent: the ranges world maps show most prominently, and other famous ones.
Each range’s highest peak, its height, the range’s length and its countries come from official sources, each checked against at least one other; heights of peaks in our other mountain quizzes match those quizzes. Ranges have no agreed ends, so lengths are approximate, and a length is shown only where the sources give one. Heights and lengths vary between official sources; we use the most widely accepted figure.
Short and common names count: “Rockies”, “Urals”, “Appalachians”, “Himalaya”, “Elburz” or “Stara Planina”, with or without “Mountains” or “Range”.
Find on the map: we name a place, you click its marker (or, for a range, its area). Practice gives you three tries and highlights the right part of the map after two misses; Test gives you three tries without hints; Strict gives you one. After the last miss, the answer is shown and the next one comes up.
Mountain ranges have no official edges. The areas on the map are outlines of each range from official map data; the Himalayas, for example, stop where the Karakoram and the Hindu Kush begin, and the Andes appear as their main chains.
Maps: official map data
Range heights, lengths and countries: official sources
About these 40 mountain ranges
Every continent has at least two: the Himalayas, Karakoram, Hindu Kush, Pamirs and Tian Shan of High Asia; the Alps, Pyrenees, Carpathians and Scandinavian Mountains in Europe; the Atlas, the Ethiopian Highlands and the Drakensberg in Africa; the Rockies, the Appalachians, the Sierra Nevada and the Andes in the Americas; the Great Dividing Range, the Southern Alps and the New Guinea Highlands in Oceania; and the Transantarctic Mountains.
The Andes are the longest range on land, and the Himalayas and the Karakoram hold every one of the world’s fourteen 8,000 m peaks. Some ranges on the list are very old and worn down: the Appalachians rose more than 400 million years ago and may once have been as high as the Himalayas are now.
The longest ranges on this map
- Andes about 8,900 km (5,530 mi)
- Rocky Mountains about 4,830 km (3,000 mi)
- Great Dividing Range about 3,500 km (2,175 mi)
- Transantarctic Mountains about 3,500 km (2,175 mi)
- Appalachian Mountains about 3,300 km (2,050 mi)
Ranges have no agreed ends, so their lengths are approximate and sources differ; the notes below give the sources.