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It is the highest mountain peak located in India and the third highest mountain peak in the world after Mount Everest and K2. [1] Uttarakhand: Nanda Devi: Garhwal Himalaya: 7,817 25,646 Nanda Devi is the highest peak located entirely within India. [2] It is located in the Chamoli district.
Lakshadweep (Malayalam: [lɐkʂɐd̪βʷiːbɨ̆]) is a union territory of India.It is an archipelago of 36 islands [a] divided into three island subgroups: the Amindivi Islands in the north, the Laccadive Islands (separated from Amindivi roughly by the 11th parallel north), and the atoll of Minicoy to the south of the Nine Degree Channel.
Kapadia, Harish (2001), Across Peaks & Passes in Darjeeling & Sikkim, Indus Publishing, ISBN 978-81-7387-126-9 World 7200-meter Peaks , peakbagger.com , retrieved 15 February 2015 Weare, Gary (2009), Trekking in the Indian Himalaya , Lonely Planet , ISBN 978-1-74059-768-5 , archived from the original on 2015-08-17 , retrieved 2015-02-14
A popular and intuitive way to distinguish mountains from subsidiary peaks is by their height above the highest saddle connecting it to a higher summit, a measure called topographic prominence or re-ascent (the higher summit is called the "parent peak"). A common definition of a mountain is a summit with 300 m (980 ft) prominence.
South India, also known as Southern India or Peninsular India, is the southern part of the Deccan Peninsula in India encompassing the states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana as well as the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry, occupying 19.31% of India's area (635,780 km 2 or 245,480 sq mi) and 20% of India's population.
The highest peak at Great Smoky Mountains National Park is officially reverting to its Cherokee name more than 150 years after a surveyor named it for a Confederate general.
Second highest peak in the world [4] 3 Kanchenjunga "Five treasures of great snow" 8,586 28,169 3,922 124.3 Nepal/India India • Nepal: 1955: Third highest peak in the world, Easternmost 8000m peak [5] 4 Lhotse "South Peak" 8,516 27,940 610 2.7
Saddle Peak or Saddle Hill is located on North Andaman Island in India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands. At 732 m, [1] it is the highest point of the archipelago in the Bay of Bengal. The peak is located close to the east coast. It is surrounded by Saddle Peak National Park. It is located to the south of Diglipur and to the southwest of Kalipur ...