India boasts diverse culture, heritage, and natural terrain with valleys, rivers, mountains, flora, and fauna. In India, seven mountain ranges are home to various mountain peaks. The mountain ranges of India are the Himalayan range, Karakoram Range, Eastern Mountain range, Satpura and Vindhyachal range, Aravalli range, Western ghats, and Eastern ghats.
India is known for some of the highest mountain peaks in the world. The Karakoram Range, Garhwal Himalaya, and Kanchenjunga consist of most of the Himalayan Mountain peaks. List of Mountain Peaks in India are :
| Broad Peak | -Also known as K3 & Falchan Kangri, in Karakoram range |
| Godwin Austen | -Also known as K2, Highest of Karakoram range |
| Gasher Brum | -Karakoram range |
| Nanga Parbat | -J & K –Indus river skirts this range before it debouches into the plains of Pakistan |
| Saltoro Kangri | -J & K, Karakoram Range |
| Nun Kun | -Highest of Zaskar Range (J&K) – Indian side |
| Badrinath | -Uttarakhand -Famous for Holy temple of Badrinath (Lord Vishnu) |
| Nanda Devi | -Uttarakhand, 2nd highest mountain in India and the highest entirely within the country |
| Kanchenjunga | -Nepal and Sikkim (B/w Teesta River in east & Tamur river in west) -Highest mountain in India & 3rd highest mountain in the world |
| Nokrek | -Highest point of the Garo Hills (Meghalaya) |
| Saramati | -Highest of Naga Hills |
| Blue Peak | -Also known as Phawngpui, highest of Mizo hills |
| Gurushikhar | -Mt. Abu, Rajasthan, highest point of the Aravalli Range |
| Gorakhnath | -Highest peak of the Girnar mountain, Gujrat |
| Dhupgarh | -Highest point of Satpura Range, Located in Pachmarhi, Madhya Pradesh (Highest of MP also) |
| Parasnath | -known as Shikharji means venerable peak + Sammet Shikhar means peak of concentration. -a place where 20/24 Tirthankaras attained mokṣa through meditative concentration -Parasnath is derived from Pārśva, the 23rd Tirthankara who attained nirvana at the site -Highest peak of Chhota Nagpur plateau, located in Jharkhand, is a Jain pilgrimage site |
| Mahendragiri | -Highest mountain peak of Orissa2nd highest of Eastern Ghats, next only to Jindhagada Peak, Andhra Pradesh |
| Malayagiri | -Orissa |
| Nimgiri | -2nd highest mountain in Orissa |
| Kalsubai | -Highest peak in Maharashtra |
| Mahabaleshwar | -a hill station at Maharashtra |
| Brahmagiri | -On the border of Karnataka, Origin of river Kaveri |
| Kundremukh | -Located on Karnataka, literally means Horse Face |
| Doddabetta | -Highest point in Tamil Nadu, near Udhagamandalam (Nilgiri Hills) -second highest peak in the Western Ghats only next to Anamudi |
| Anaimudi | -Located in Kerala, It is the highest peak in Western Ghats and in South India |
| Agasthyamalai | -also called as Ashambu Hills, lie at the extreme southern end of Western Ghats, straddle both sides in Kerala and in Tamil Nadu |
| Saddle Peak | -highest point of the archipelago in the Bay of Bengal, located in Andaman |
| Mount Hariet | 3rd highest peak in the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago only next to — Saddle Peak (Highest of Andaman) — Mount Thullier (Highest of Nicobar) |
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