Which of the following mountain ranges is home to the second highest peak of the world K2 ........

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Which of the following mountain ranges is home to the second highest peak of the world, K2?

Nilgiri Range

Pir Panjal Range

East Karakoram Range

Ladakh Range

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K2, Chinese Qogir Feng, also called Mount Godwin Austen, called locally Dapsang or Chogori, the world’s second highest peak (28,251 feet [8,611 metres]), second only to Mount Everest. K2 is located in the Karakoram Range and lies partly in a Chinese-administered enclave of the Kashmir region within the Uygur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang, China, and partly in the Gilgit-Baltistan portion of Kashmir under the administration of Pakistan.