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| | Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Hindu Kush (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | Hindu Kush HINDU KUSH [Hindu Kush], a high mountain system, extending c.500 mi (800 km) W from the Pamir Knot, N Pakistan, into NE Afghanistan; rising to 25,236 ft (7,692 m) in Tirich Mir, on the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan. |
 | | Afghanistan is bordered by Iran on the west, by Pakistan on the east and south, and by Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan on the north; a narrow strip, the Vakhan (Wakhan), extends |
 | | An earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale hit the Hindu Kush, 240 kilometres northeast of Kabul, killing 150 people and blocking the course of a main river. |
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