| 1 | Andes | South America | Argentina
Bolivia
Chile
Colombia
Ecuador
Peru
Venezuela |  32°S 70°W | 7,000 km
(4,300 mi) | 500 km
(310 mi) | 6,962 m
(22,841 ft) | Mount Aconcagua |
| 2 | Southern Great Escarpment | Africa[4][5][6] | Zimbabwe
South Africa
Swaziland
Lesotho
Namibia
Angola | 29°S 29°E | 5,000 km
(3,100 mi) | 300 km
(200 mi) | 3,482 m
(11,424 ft) | Thabana Ntlenyana |
| 3 | Rocky Mountains | North America[7][8][9] | Canada
United States | 39°N 106°W | 4,800 km
(3,000 mi) | 300 km
(200 mi) | 4,401 m
(14,439 ft) | Mount Elbert |
| 4 | Transantarctic Mountains | Antarctica[10][11][12] | Antarctica | 84°S 166°E | 3,500 km
(2,200 mi) | 400 km
(250 mi) | 4,528 m
(14,856 ft) | Mount Kirkpatrick |
| 5 | Great Dividing Range | Australia[13][14][15][16] | Australia | 36°S 148°E | 3,500 km
(2,200 mi) | 300 km
(190 mi) | 2,228 m
(7,310 ft) | Mount Kosciuszko |
| 6 | Himalayas | Asia[17][18][19] | India
Pakistan
China
Bhutan
Nepal
Afghanistan
Myanmar | 27°N 86°E | 2,600 km
(1,600 mi) | 350 km
(220 mi) | 8,848 m
(29,029 ft) | Mount Everest |
| 7 | Ural Mountains | Asia and Europe[20] | Russia
Kazakhstan | 60°N 60°E | 2,500 km
(1,600 mi) | 150 km
(93 mi) | 1,895 m
(6,217 ft) | Mount Narodnaya |
