This is a list of mountain ranges on Earth and a few other astronomical bodies. First, the highest and longest mountain ranges on Earth are listed, followed by more comprehensive alphabetical lists organized by continent. Ranges in the oceans and on other celestial bodies are listed afterwards.

Mountain ranges on Earth By height These are the 23 highest mountain ranges. All are above . Name Continent(s) Country/ies Highest Point Highest Point's AltitudeHimalayas*AsiaIndia, Nepal, Bhutan, China, Pakistan, AfghanistanEverestKarakoram*Pakistan, China, India, Tajikistan, AfghanistanK2Hindu Kush*Afghanistan, Pakistan, TajikistanTirich MirPamirs**Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Afghanistan, PakistanKongur TaghHengduan Mountains*China, MyanmarMount GonggaTian Shan**China, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, TajikistanJengish ChokusuKunlun**ChinaLiushi ShanTranshimalaya*ChinaMount Nyenchen TanglhaAndesSouth AmericaArgentina, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, VenezuelaAconcaguaKangri Karpo*AsiaChinaBairigaHindu Raj*PakistanKoyo ZomTanggula Mountains**ChinaGeladaindong PeakAltyn-Tagh**ChinaSulamutag FengAlaska RangeNorth AmericaUnited StatesDenaliSaint Elias MountainsUnited States, CanadaMount LoganQilian Mountains**AsiaChinaKangze GyaiSierra Nevada de Santa MartaSouth AmericaColombiaPico Cristóbal ColónCaucasus MountainsEurope and AsiaArmenia, Georgia, Russia, AzerbaijanMount ElbrusTrans-Mexican Volcanic BeltNorth AmericaMexicoPico de OrizabaPamir-Alay**AsiaKyrgyzstan, Kazakhistan, Uzbekistan, TajikistanPik SkalistyAlborzIranMount DamavandArmenian HighlandsArmenia, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iran, GeorgiaMount AraratRwenzori MountainsAfricaUganda, Democratic Republic of the CongoMount Stanley

* Part of the Hindu Kush-Himalayas region

** Part of the Pamir-Kunlun region

All of the Asian ranges above except the Alborz and the Armenian Highlands have been formed in part over the past 35 to 55 million years by the collision between the Indian Plate and Eurasian Plate. The Indian Plate is still particularly mobile and these mountain ranges continue to rise in elevation every year and this page may need to be updated in a few years; of these the Himalayas are rising most quickly; the Kashmir and Pamirs region to the north of the Indian subcontinent is the point of confluence of these mountains which encircle the Tibetan Plateau.

By prominence

Mountain ranges by length

Mountain systems, Himalayan ranges and chains by length (over 500 km): The underwater Mid-ocean ridge – Ring of Fire – American Cordillera – Andes – . Northern and Southern Andes main subdivisions, along both run three vast, almost parallel chain systems of mountain ranges – Cordillera Occidental, Cordillera Central and Cordillera Oriental. North American Cordillera – Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt – more than Hindu Kush-Himalayas region – Great Escarpment, Southern Africa – Drakensberg – Rocky Mountains – (section of the North American Cordillera) Great Dividing Range – Transantarctic Mountains – Kunlun Mountains – (section of the Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt) Atlas Mountains – (section of the Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt) Ural Mountains – Appalachian Mountains – Himalayas – c. (main section of the Hindu Kush-Himalayas region) High Himalayas – Sivalik Hills – Lesser Himalayas – Altai mountain system – New Guinea Highlands – Barisan Mountains – c. (section of the Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt) Carpathian Mountains – (section of the Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt) Scandinavian Mountains (Scandes) – c. Verkhoyansk Range-Suntar-Khayata Range – (section of the East Siberian System of mountains) Verkhoyansk Range – Suntar-Khayata Range – Coast Mountains – (section of the North American Cordillera) Qin Mountains – Transhimalaya – (section of the Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt) Western Ghats – Chersky Range – (section of the East Siberian System of mountains) Peninsular mountain ranges – (section of the North American Cordillera) Serra do Mar – Taurus Mountains – (section of the Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt) Zagros Mountains – (section of the Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt) Sierra Madre Occidental – (section of the North American Cordillera) Mantiqueira Mountains/Espinhaço Mountains – Kolyma Mountains – (section of the East Siberian System of mountains) Alps – (section of the Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt) Western Alps – approx. French Prealps – more than Eastern Alps – approx. Central Eastern Alps – approx. Northern Limestone Alps – approx. Southern Limestone Alps and Western Limestone Alps – approx. Apennines – (section of the Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt) Caucasus Mountains – (section of the Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt) Greater Caucasus – Lesser Caucasus – Cordillera Occidental (Colombia) – (section of the Northern Andes, American Cordillera) Cordillera Oriental (Colombia) – (section of the Northern Andes, American Cordillera) Vindhya Range – Altai Mountains – 1,200 km (750 mi) Drakensberg – Byrranga Mountains – Cascade Range – Annamite Range – Brooks Range – (section of the North American Cordillera) Verkhoyansk Range – (section of the East Siberian Mountains) Cordillera Central (Colombia) – (section of the Northern Andes, American Cordillera) Lena Plateau – (section of the East Siberian System of mountains) Pontic Mountains – (section of the Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt) Eastern Sayan Mountains – Sierra Madre del Sur – (section of the North American Cordillera) Arakan/Rakhine Mountains – Hengduan Mountains – as a system of mountain ranges Ogo Mountains – 900 km (560 mi) Koryak Mountains – (Siberia) Cape Fold Belt – Hindu Kush – (section of the Hindu Kush-Greater Himalayas region) Precordillera – (considered section of the Southern Andes, American Cordillera) Dzhugdzhur Mountains – Stanovoy Highlands – (section of the East Siberian System of mountains) Aravalli Range – Alaska Range – (section of the North American Cordillera) Kopet Mountains – (section of the Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt) Sette-Daban – (section of the East Siberian System of mountains) Dinaric Mountains – (section of the Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt) Sierra Nevada (U.S.) – (section of the North American Cordillera) California Coast Ranges – (section of the North American Cordillera) Balkan Mountains – (section of the Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt) Karakoram – (section of the Hindu Kush-Greater Himalayas region) Southern Alps – Yudoma-Maya Highlands – (section of the East Siberian System of mountains)

By continents Africa Aberdare ranges, Kenya Ahaggar Mountains, Algeria Ahmar Mountains, Ethiopia Amaro Mountains, Ethiopia Atlantika Mountains, Cameroon, Nigeria Atlas Mountains, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia Anti-Atlas, Morocco Aurès Mountains, Algeria, Tunisia High Atlas, Morocco Middle Atlas, Morocco Saharan Atlas, Algeria Tell Atlas, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia Bale Mountains, Ethiopia Bakossi Mountains, Cameroon Blue Mountains, Niger Bvumba Mountains, Mozambique, Zimbabwe Cal Madow, Somalia Cederberg, South Africa Danakil Alps, Ethiopia, Eritrea Drakensberg, Lesotho, South Africa Eastern Arc Mountains, Kenya, Tanzania Eastern Highlands, Mozambique, Zimbabwe Entoto Mountains, Ethiopia Erta Ale Range, Ethiopia Golis Mountains, Somalia Khufleh Range, Somalia Kilimanjaro and Meru, Tanzania Kipengere Range, Tanzania Lebombo Mountains, Mozambique Magaliesberg, South Africa Mahale Mountains, Tanzania Mandara Mountains, Cameroon, Nigeria Moka Range, Mauritius Ogo Mountains, Somalia Outeniqua, South Africa Pare Mountains, Tanzania Piton des Neiges – Piton de la Fournaise, Réunion Rif, Morocco Rwenzori, Uganda Semien, Ethiopia Swartberg, South Africa Tadrat Acacus, Libya Tibesti Mountains, Chad Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania Uluguru Mountains, Tanzania Usambara Mountains, Tanzania

Antarctica Allardyce Range, South Georgia Imeon Range, Smith Island Pensacola Mountains Salvesen Range, South Georgia Tangra Mountains, Livingston Island Transantarctic Mountains Queen Maud Mountains Bush Mountains Commonwealth Range Dominion Range Gothic Mountains Green Range Herbert Range Prince Olav Mountains Hughes Range Supporters Range Theron Mountains Heimefront Range, Queen Maud Land Borg Massif, Queen Maud Land Fimbulheimen, Queen Maud Land Gburek Peaks Sverdrup Mountains Gjelsvik Mountains Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains Orvin Mountains Filchner Mountains Drygalski Mountains Kurze Mountains Gagarin Mountains Conrad Mountains Wohlthat Mountains Humboldt Mountains Petermann Ranges Gruber Mountains Hoel Mountains Weyprecht Mountains Payer Mountains Lomonosov Mountains Sør Rondane Mountains, Queen Maud Land Belgica Mountains, Queen Maud Land Planet Heights Queen Fabiola Mountains, Queen Maud Land Aristotle Mountains, Graham Land Pippin Peaks Stribog Mountains, Brabant Island Solvay Mountains, Brabant Island Brugmann Mountains, Liège Island Executive Committee Range

Asia

Alagalla Mountain Range, Sri Lanka Alborz, Iran Al-Hajar Mountains, Oman, United Arab Emirates Altai Mountains, Russia, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan Annamite Range, Laos, Vietnam Anti-Lebanon, Lebanon, Syria, Israel Aravalli Range, India Asir Mountains, Saudi Arabia Barisan Mountains, Indonesia Caraballo Mountains, Philippines Cardamom Mountains, Cambodia Carmel Mountains, Israel Caucasus, Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkey Chersky Range, Russia Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh Cordillera Central, Philippines Crocker Range, Malaysia Dieng Volcanic Complex, Indonesia Dzhugdzhur Mountains, Russia Eastern Ghats, India Fansipan, Vietnam Haraz Mountains, Yemen Hijaz Mountains Himalaya, Nepal, Bhutan, China, India, Pakistan Mahabharat Range or Lesser Himalaya Siwalik Range or Churia Hills, Subhimalaya Hindu Kush, Afghanistan, Pakistan Japanese Alps, Japan Akaishi Mountains Hida Mountains Kiso Mountains Judaean Mountains, Palestine, Israel Kabir Kuh, Iran, Iraq Karakoram, Pakistan, China, India Khingan Mountains, China, Russia Greater Khingan Lesser Khingan Khibinsky Mountains, Russia Kirthar Mountains, Pakistan Knuckles Mountain Range, Sri Lanka Kolyma Mountains Russia Koryak Mountains Russia Kunlun Mountains, China (Tibet) Kuray Mountains, Russia Mount Lebanon Range, Lebanon Müller Mountains, Central Borneo, Indonesia Pamir Mountains, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, China Pontic Mountains, Turkey Phnom Kulen, Cambodia Phnom Voar, Cambodia Safed Koh, Afghanistan, Pakistan Salt Range, Pakistan Sayan Mountains, Russia Sivalik Hills range of outer Himalayas, India Sierra Madre, Philippines Sikhote Alin Mountains, Russia Stanovoi Range, Russia Sudirman Range, Indonesia Sulaiman Mountains, Pakistan, Iran Ta Kream Mountain Range, Cambodia Taurus Mountains, Turkey Toba Kakar Range, Afghanistan, Pakistan Tian Shan, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan Taiwan Mountains, Taiwan Tengger Mountains, Indonesia Titiwangsa Mountains, Malaysia Ural Mountains, Russia Verkhoyansk Range, Russia Western Ghats, India Zagros Mountains, Iran, Iraq Zambales Mountains, Philippines Zamboanga Cordilleras, Philippines

Europe

Alps Eastern Alps, Austria, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Slovenia, Switzerland Central Eastern Alps, Austria, Italy, Slovenia, Switzerland Bergamo Alps, Italy Hohe Tauern, Austria, Italy Ankogel Group Defereggen Mountains Grossglockner Goldberg Group Granatspitz Group Hafner Group Kreuzeck Group Rieserferner Group Schober Group Venediger Group Kitzbühel Alps, Austria Niedere Tauern, Austria Ötztal Alps, Austria, Italy Rhaetian Alps, Austria, Italy, Switzerland Albula Range Bernina Range Bregaglia Range Livigno Range Oberhalbstein Range Plessur Range Samnaun Alps Sesvenna Range Silvretta Rätikon, Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland Stubai Alps, Austria, Italy Tux Alps, Austria Verwall Alps, Austria Zillertal Alps, Austria, Italy Northern Limestone Alps, Austria, Germany Allgäu Alps, Austria, Germany Berchtesgaden Alps, Austria, Germany Dachstein, Austria Ennstaler Alpen, Austria Karwendel, Austria, Germany Lechtal Alps, Austria Totes Gebirge, Austria