Alps-Himalaya belt

Japanese: アルプス・ヒマラヤ地帯 - アルプスヒマラヤちたい(英語表記)Alps‐Himalaya belt
Alps-Himalaya belt
It is one of the largest mountain ranges on Earth, stretching from the Alps through Western Asia to the Himalayas and Indonesia. Its western end is the Pyrenees on the Spanish-French border and the Atlas Mountains in North Africa, and then the Apennines, the Alps, the Carpathians, the Dinaric Alps, Asia Minor, the Caucasus, the Zagros, the Hindu Kush, and finally the Himalayas. From the Himalayas to the east, it continues through the mountains of Myanmar and Thailand to the Malay Peninsula and the Sunda Islands.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
アルプス山脈付近から西アジアを経て,ヒマラヤ,インドネシアに続く地球上最大の山脈系の一つ。その西端はスペイン・フランス国境のピレネー山脈や北アフリカのアトラス山脈で,これからアペニノ山脈,アルプス山脈,カルパチ山脈,ディナル・アルプス山脈,小アジア半島,カフカス山脈,ザーグロス山脈,ヒンドゥークシュ山脈と続いて,ヒマラヤ山脈に至る。さらにヒマラヤ山脈より東はミャンマー,タイの山地を経てマレー半島,スンダ列島に続く。

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