Karakoram
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- proper noun
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Karakoram
- The Karakoram mountain range is known for its breathtaking landscapes and challenging climbing routes.
- Karakoram Highway
This is all remote as part of the Karakoram.
- This is all remote as part of the Karakoram.
Examples
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Where I am now—deep in the heart of the Karakoram—nothing grows but the tiny lichens and mosses that are Dr. Hooker's greatest love.
Fiction book (1999) -
Hunza was one of the most isolated regions in this part of the world until the Karakoram was built and merged the valley with the rest of Pakistan.
Academic text (1997) -
The city lies on the Karakoram Highway.
Academic text (2015) -
The relations became stronger when both nations constructed a friendship road: Karakoram Highway in the 1970s.
Academic text (2018) -
Once you have traveled the Karakoram Highway through Pakistan, you understand why it is often described as the 8th Wonder of the World.
Academic text (1997) -
Some of the highest cliffs in the world are in northeastern Pakistan in the Karakoram mountain range.
Blog text (31) -
The Karakoram Highway provided China with a short and safe road to the Arabian Sea, Persian Gulf, and African continents.
Academic text (2018) -
The air is clear beyond clearness today, and to the north rises that wall of snowy summits I first mistook for a cloud: the Karakoram range, which we are to map.
Fiction book (1999) -
On the edge of the Deosai plateau, overlooking Skardu, I saw two far-away peaks towering above the rest of the Karakoram, the higher gleaming brilliant blue and the lower yellow.
Fiction book (1999) -
Mount K2, the world's second highest peak, is part of the Karakoram range.
Synonyms
A mountain range in northern Kashmir that includes K2, the world's second highest peak
A mountain range in northern Kashmir that has K2, the second highest mountain in the world
A mountain range in northern Kashmir that includes K2, the world's second highest peak
Compounds
A mountain range in northern Kashmir that includes K2, the world's second highest peak
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word Karakoram probably comes from old Turkic parts like kara meaning 'black' and a second part meaning 'ridge' or 'mountain'. So a helpful way to remember Karakoram is 'black ridge', which fits the dark, rocky high peaks and glaciers of this mountain range.