The only natural World Heritage Sites is the Tassili n ' Ajjer, a mountain range.

The principal feature of the bathymetry ( bottom topography ) is a submarine mountain range called the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

** Anti-Atlas, a mountain range in Morocco

** High Atlas, a mountain range in Morocco, contains the highest point in the Atlas Mountains

** Middle Atlas, a mountain range in Northern Morocco

** Saharan Atlas, a mountain range in Algeria

** Tell Atlas, the Atlas mountain range that parallels the Mediterranean coast

The group is named after the Altai Mountains, a mountain range in Central Asia.

The Alps, one of the great mountain range systems of Europe, stretch approximately across eight Alpine countries from Austria and Slovenia in the east, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Germany, France to the west and Italy and Monaco to the south.

landlocked in the Lesser Caucasus Mountains ; Sevana Lich ( Lake Sevan ) is the largest lake in this mountain range

This list contains some of the major peaks in the Andes mountain range.

Adiabatic heating also occurs in the Earth's atmosphere when an air mass descends, for example, in a katabatic wind or Foehn or chinook wind flowing downhill over a mountain range.

On the border of Sweden is a mountain range running from northeast to southwest.

* 1942 – World War II: The flag of Nazi Germany is installed atop the Mount Elbrus, the highest peak of the Caucasus mountain range.

Apart from the lowlands and the Atlas mountain range, the continent may be divided into two regions of higher and lower plateaus, the dividing line ( somewhat concave to the north-west ) running from the middle of the Red Sea to about 6 deg.

His march northward through the Alps was interrupted by Rudolph, King of Transjurane Burgundy, and it was only with great difficulty that Arnulf crossed the mountain range.

The Black Forest (, ) is a wooded mountain range in Baden-Württemberg, southwestern Germany.

His successor, Marcus Licinius Lucullus ( brother of the famous Lucius Lucullus ), campaigned against the Thracian Bessi tribe and the Moesi, ravaging the whole of Moesia, the region between the Haemus ( Balkan ) mountain range and the Danube.

Barcelona is located on the northeast coast of the Iberian Peninsula, facing the Mediterranean Sea, on a plain approximately wide limited by the mountain range of Collserola, the Llobregat river to the southwest and the Besòs river to the north.

* The Remarkables, New Zealand – mountain range containing a peak also called Ben Nevis.

Western Khmer, also called Cardamom Khmer or Chanthaburi Khmer, spoken by a very small, isolated population in the Cardamom mountain range extending from western Cambodia into eastern Central Thailand, although little studied, is unique in that it maintains a definite system of vocal register that has all but disappeared in other dialects of modern Khmer.

* Conical Range, a small mountain range in southwestern British Columbia, Canada, between Seymour Inlet and Belize Inlet

The highest mountain in Cambodia -- Phnom Aural, at 1, 771 meters — is in the eastern part of this range.

The country's highest peaks lie in this mountain range: the Cerro Chirripó and the Cerro Kamuk.

The most important edifice on the A1 is the Sveti Rok Tunnel ( 5. 687 m ), which goes through the famous Velebit mountain range barrier.

Haymaking is an important farming activity in mountain villages which has become somewhat mechanized recent years, although the slopes are so steep that usually scythes are necessary to cut the grass.

Because of the mountain slopes, terracing has been a common practice.

Due to the blocking presence of successive mountain ranges, the Interior of the province has a semi-arid climate with certain locations receiving less than 250 mm ( 10 ") in annual precipitation.

The eastern or mountain bongo, T. eurycerus isaaci, of Kenya has a coat even more vibrant than that of T. eurycerus eurycerus.

In the last few decades there has been a rapid decline in the numbers of wild mountain bongo due to poaching and human pressure on their habitat, with local extinctions reported in Cherangani and Chepalungu hills, Kenya.

" Horn in the West ", a dramatization of the life and times of the early settlers of the mountain area, which features Daniel Boone as one of its characters, has been performed in an outdoor amphitheatre above the town every summer since 1952.

However, most vegetation has now been converted to agriculture and forest fragments are now restricted to areas where cultivation is not possible, such as mountain peaks and steep slopes.

Downhill mountain biking has just evolved in the recent years and is performed at places such as Whistler Mountain Bike Park.

In the past decade, mountain bike racing has also reached international popularity and is even an Olympic sport.

It is the smallest of the four islands and has a central mountain chain reaching 860 meters at its highest.

As a result, many Cimbri has left the mountain region and dispersed around the world, for places such as the Rio Grande do Sul state in Southern Brazil.

The summit of the mountain has six nested calderas.

Several east-west trending mountain spurs extend to the narrow coastal plain, which is studded with sea cliffs and has level stretches no wider than.

Moses descends from the mountain, and his face is transformed, so that from that time onwards he has to hide his face with a veil.

After the resurrection the remaining disciples return to Galilee, " to the mountain that Jesus had appointed ," where he comes to them and tells them that he has been given " all authority in heaven and on Earth.

At 1, 271 metres, the mountain has its own ecosystems, is rich in biodiversity and plays a large part in determining the local weather.

The island has five major mountain ranges: The Central Range, known in the Dominican Republic as the Cordillera Central, spans the central part of the island, extending from the south coast of the Dominican Republic into northwestern Haiti, where it is known as the Massif du Nord.

India has eight major mountain ranges having peaks of over:

Ahl al Jabal (" people of the mountain "), or simply jabaliyyun, has referred traditionally to the inhabitants of western Lebanon.

Rugged scenery predominates because river erosion over thousands of years has left a varied, low mountain landscape, densely covered with vegetation, sometimes with considerable variations in height.

Mongolia has three major mountain ranges.

The world's longest mountain system is known as Ocean Ridge, which is a chain of mountains that runs on the seafloor of five oceans around the world ; it has a length of, and the total length of the system is.

Gene flow is hindered by mountain ranges, oceans and deserts or even man-made structures such as the Great Wall of China, which has hindered the flow of plant genes.

Geologists describe this type of landscape as a " drowned coast ," where a rising sea level has invaded former land features, creating bays out of valleys and islands out of mountain tops.