Q. The eastern and western limits of Central Himalayas are:
Answer: Nanga Parbat and Namcha Barwa
Notes: Nanga Parbat is the ninth highest mountain in the world at 8,126 metres above sea level. It is the western anchor of the Himalayas around which the Indus River skirts into the plains of Pakistan. Namcha Barwa is in an isolated part of south-eastern Tibet rarely visited by outsiders. Namcha rises 5,000 to 6,800 metres above the Yarlung Tsangpo.

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