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Qaraqorum

Qaraqorum is the alternative form of Karakoram.

Meaning of Karakoram

Proper noun

Karakoram

  1. A mountain range located in Gilgit, Ladakh and Baltistan, containing more than sixty peaks above 7,000 m (22,960 ft), including K2, the second highest peak in the world.
    • The Labiate genus Perovskia, to which the plant here figured belongs, is a somewhat anomalous one, comprising four species, two of which are natives of Turkestan with a third confined to Beluchistan, and a fourth, the one now depicted, which extends from the mountains of Afghanistan through the...1912, Curtis's Botanical Magazine, volume 8, page 8441

Questions about Qaraqorum

What is Qaraqorum the alternative form of?
Qaraqorum is the alternative form of Karakoram.

Words near Qaraqorum in the dictionary

  1. Qaraitism
  2. QARANC
  3. Qaraqalpaq
  4. Qaraqalpaqs
  5. Qaraqash
  6. Qaraqorum
  7. qaraqul
  8. qaraquls
  9. Qarawiyyin
  10. qareen
  11. Qaren

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