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The Tian Shan rises far from any plate boundary

Stress from India's collision travels inland and lifts this range hundreds of kilometres away The mountains run about 2,500 kilometres across Central Asia, north of the Tarim Basin. Their uplift comes from the same collision that built the Himalayas, transmitted through the crust rather than produced at a suture. The range divides dry basins from one another and feeds rivers that vanish into deserts. It sits in Mondo's world geography collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Stress from India's collision travels inland and lifts this range hundreds of kilometres away. The figure is taken from USGS, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a world geography fact?: Yes. It sits on the World Geography shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.