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Pakistan is divided into three major geographic areas:
the northern highlands ; the Indus River
plain , with two major subdivisions corresponding roughly
to the provinces of Punjab and Sindh; and the Balochistan
Plateau .
The northern highlands include parts of the Hindu Kush ,
the Karakoram Range, and the Himalayas .
This area includes such famous peaks as K2 (Mount
Godwin Austen, at 8,611 meters the second highest peak in the world),
and Nanga Parbat (8,126 meters), the twelfth highest.
South of the northern highlands and west of the Indus River plain
are the Safed Koh Range along the Afghanistan border and the Sulaiman
Range and Kirthar Range, which define the western extent
of the province of Sindh and reach almost to the southern coast.
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