# Alpide belt

- **Type:** Folded mountain ranges
- **Region:** Southern Eurasia, northern Africa, central Asian subcontinent, southeast Asia
- **Highest:** Mount Everest
- **Orogeny:** Alpine (in west), Himalayan (in east)
- **Etymology:** Derived from Alps
- **Formed By:** compressive forces at aligned convergent plate boundaries
- **Length Km:** 15,000
- **Image Size:** 300px
- **Other Name:** Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt
- **Elevation M:** 8848.86
- **Region Type:** Mesozoic oceanic platform
- **Length Orientation:** E–W in the west, N–S in the east

The Alpide belt or Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt or Alpine-Persia–Tibet–Burma orogeny, or more recently and rarely the Tethyan orogenic belt, is a seismic and orogenic belt that includes an array of mountain ranges extending for more than along the southern margin of Eurasia, stretching from Java and Sumatra, through the Indochinese Peninsula, the Himalayas and Transhimalayas, the mountains of Iran, Caucasus, Anatolia, the Mediterranean, and out into the Atlantic.

![Photo of Alpide belt](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/Alpiner_Gebirgsg%C3%BCrtel.png)

**Source:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpide_belt (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)