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Minangkabau mosque circa 1892–1905 photographed by Christiaan Benjamin Nieuwenhuis The Minangkabau Highlands is a mountainous area in the province of West Sumatra, located around three mountains— Mount Marapi, Mount Singgalang, and Mount Sago —in west-central Sumatra, Indonesia. The highlands are part of the Barisan Mountains, the largest mountain range in Sumatra. They are home to the ...
Landsat 8 image of Gweni-Fada crater in the Ennedi Plateau. The Ennedi Plateau is located in the northeast of Chad, in the regions of Ennedi-Ouest and Ennedi-Est.It is considered a part of the group of mountains known as the Ennedi Massif found in Chad, which is one of the nine countries that make up the Sahelian belt that spans the Atlantic Ocean to Sudan.
[1] Dieng is surrounded by a series of mountains that stretch about 6 km (4 miles) from north to south and 14 km (9 miles) from west to east. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Dieng is the highest plateau on the island of Java , having an average elevation of more than 2,100 meters above sea level.
Satellite image of the Tibetan Plateau between the Himalayan mountains to the south and the Taklamakan Desert to the north. In geology and physical geography, a plateau (/ p l ə ˈ t oʊ, p l æ ˈ t oʊ, ˈ p l æ t oʊ /; French:; pl.: plateaus or plateaux), [1] [2] also called a high plain or a tableland, is an area of a highland consisting of flat terrain that is raised sharply above the ...
[1] The summit of Mount Sumbing serves as the meeting point of the borders of three river basins, namely, the Progo basin on the eastern side of the mountain, the Serayu basin, and the Bogowonto basin on the western side of the mountain. The Progo River Basin covers more than 50% of the Mount Sumbing complex.
Genting Highlands is a hill station located on the peak of Mount Ulu Kali in the Titiwangsa Mountains, central Peninsular Malaysia, at 1800 metres elevation.Located in the state of Pahang, it was established in 1965 by the late Malaysian businessman Lim Goh Tong.
Erosion rates in Tibet decreased significantly around 10 million years ago. [25] The Indo-Australian plate continues to be driven horizontally below the Tibetan Plateau, which forces the plateau to move upwards; the plateau is still rising at a rate of approximately 5 mm (0.2 in) per year (although erosion reduces the actual increase in height ...
Agam Regency (Indonesian: Kabupaten Agam) is a regency of West Sumatra, Indonesia.It has an area of 2,226.27 km 2 [2] and had a population of 454,853 at the 2010 census [3] and 529,138 at the 2020 census; [4] the official estimate as at mid 2023 was 530,123 (comprising 265,811 males and 264,312 females). [1]