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Patkai
Patkai hill summits seen from the Pangsau Pass
Highest point
Peak	Mount Saramati^[1]
Elevation	3,826 m (12,552 ft)
Coordinates	27°0′N 96°0′E / 27.000°N 96.000°E / 27.000; 96.000
Geography
Patkai Location of Patkai
Location	India, Myanmar

The Pat-kai (Pron:pʌtˌkaɪ) or Patkai Bum (Burmese: Kumon Taungdan)^[2] are a series of mountains on the Indo-Myanmar border falling in the northeastern Indian states of Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Upper Burma region of Myanmar. In Tai-Ahom language, Pat means to cut and Kai means chicken.

Geography

The Patkai range mountains are not as rugged as the Himalayas and the peaks are much lower. Features of the range include conical peaks, steep slopes and deep valleys. In Nagaland some of the most fascinating places are seen in this mountain range like Mount Khülio-King, Shilloi lake etc.

Three mountain ranges come under the Patkai. The Patkai-Bum, the Garo-Khasi-Jaintia hills and the Lushai Hills. The Garo-Khasi range is in the Indian state of Meghalaya. Mawsynram and Cherrapunji, on the windward side of these mountains are the world's wettest places, having the highest annual rainfall.

The climate ranges from temperate to alpine due to differences in altitude.

The Pangsau Pass offers the most important route through the Patkai. The Ledo Road was built through Pangsau Pass as a strategic supply road during World War II to link India with the Burma Road and finally onto China.

In World War 2, the Patkai Range was considered a part of The Hump by the Allied Forces.

Notes

External links

Patkai Hills
Media related to Patkai at Wikimedia Commons
The Geology of Burma (Myanmar)

Geography of South Asia

Mountains

Himalayas	Eastern Himalayas Black Mountains Dundwa Range Great Himalayas Eight-thousander Lesser Himalayas Sivalik Hills Tibetan Himalayas Western Himalayas Garhwal Kishtwar Himalaya Margalla Hills Ladakh Range Zanskar Range
Hindu Kush	Sulaiman Toba Kakar
Western Ghats	Ambanad Anaimalai Biligiriranga Cardamom Nilgiri Satmala Selbari Palani Peaks Thirumoorthy Trimbakeshwar
Eastern Ghats	Bilgiri Bodhamalai Chitteri Erramala Gandhamardan Garhjat Javadi Kalrayan Kolli Nallamalla Niyamgiri Pachaimalai Palkonda Seshachalam Simhachalam Servarayan Sirumalai Velikonda

Plateaus

Deserts

Thal
Thar

Lowlands

Indo-Gangetic Plain	Ganges Basin Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta Punjab Plain Sundarbans Indus Basin Indus Delta
Coastal India	East Coast Coromandel Utkal West Coast Canara Konkan Malabar Rann of Kutch