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The Himalayan states are a group of countries straddling the Himalayan mountain range in Asia. The area is divided between the Western Himalaya and the Eastern Himalaya. Two sovereign states, Nepal and Bhutan, are located almost entirely within the mountain range. The range also covers southern Tibet, the Himalayan region of North and Northeast India, Sikkim, northern Pakistan, and eastern Afghanistan.[2] Northern Myanmar is sometimes also included.[3][4]
The inhabitants of this region are mostly speakers of Indo-Aryan and Tibeto-Burman languages,[5] while the main religions are Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam.
Some of the world's major trans-boundary rivers originate in the Himalayas, including the Indus, Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Irrawaddy.[6]
See also
References
- ↑ Top ten longest mountain ranges (land-based)
- ↑ Himalayas (mountains, Asia), Bishop, Barry. Encyclopædia Britannica.
- ↑ The Himalayas. PBS(11 February 2011).
- ↑ Myanmar Himalaya Travel.
- ↑ Himalayas (mountains, Asia), Chatterjee, Shiba. Encyclopædia Britannica.
- ↑ International Conflict over Water Resources in Himalayan Asia - R. Wirsing, C. Jasparro, D. Stoll - Google Books{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}(16 November 2012). ISBN 9781137292193