Roof of the World - wikipedia Roof of the World For the Doctor Who episode, see Marco Polo ( Doctor Who ). For the Doctor Who audio story, see The Roof of the World. For the ancient geography of this region, see Mount Imeon. Physical map of Central Asia from the Caucasus in the NW, to Mongolia in the NE. Roof of the World is a metaphoric description of the high region in the world, also known as `` High Asia ''. The term usually refers to the mountainous interior of Asia, i.e. the Himalayas. Contents 1 Terminology 2 Attested usage 3 See also 4 References Terminology The term is also used for parts of this region, for the Pamirs, the Himalayas, Tibet, Mt. Everest. The name was first applied to the Pamirs. Attested usage The British explorer John Wood, writing in 1838, described Bam - i - Duniah ( Roof of the World ) as a `` native expression '' ( presumably Wakhi ), and it was generally used for the Pamirs in Victorian times : In 1876 another British traveller, Sir Thomas Edward Gordon, employed it as the title of a book and wrote in Chapter IX : `` We were now about to cross the famous ' Bam - i - dunya ', ' The Roof of the World ' under which name the elevated region of the hitherto comparatively unknown Pamir tracts had long appeared in our maps. (... ) Wood, in 1838, was the first European traveller of modern times to visit the Great Pamir, ''. Older encyclopedias also used `` Roof of the World '' to describe the Pamirs : Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed. ( 1911 ) : `` PAMIRS, a mountainous region of central Asia... the Bam - i - dunya ( ' The Roof of the World ' ) ''. The Columbia Encyclopedia, 1942 edition : `` the Pamirs ( Persian = roof of the world ) ''. Hachette, 1890 : `` Le Toit du monde ( Pamir ) '', French for `` Roof of the World ( Pamir ) ''. Der Große Brockhaus, Leipzig 1928 - 1935 : `` Dach der Welt, Bezeichnung für das Hochland von Pamir '', i.e., `` roof of the world, term describing the Pamir highlands '', and ( in translation ) : `` Pamir highlands, nodal point of the mountain systems of Tien - Shan, Kun - lun, Karakoram, the Himalayas and Hindukush, and therefore called the roof of the world. '' With the awakening of public interest in Tibet, the Pamirs, `` since 1875... probably the best explored region in High Asia '', went out of the limelight and the description `` Roof of the World '' has been increasingly applied to Tibet and the Tibetan plateau, and occasionally, esp. in French ( `` Toît du monde '' ), even to Mt. Everest, but the traditional use is still alive. Where the world 's tallest mountain ranges meet Panorama of the Pamirs, the Original Roof of the World See also Four continents Seven Seas Mount Imeon References Jump up ^ Keay, John ( 1983 ) When Men and Mountains Meet ISBN 0 - 7126 - 0196 - 1 ; p. 153 Jump up ^ Sir Thomas Edward Gordon, The Roof of the World : being a narrative of a journey over the high plateau of Tibet to the Russian frontier and the Oxus sources on Pamir, Edinburgh : Edmonston and Douglas, 1876 Jump up ^ Gordon, p. 121f. ^ Jump up to : Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed. ( 1911 ) Jump up ^ The Columbia Encyclopedia ; 1942 edition, p. 1335 Jump up ^ Guillaume Capus, Le Toit du Monde ( Pamir ), voyage extrême orient. Illustré de 31 Vignettes et d'une Carte, Paris : Hachette et Cie. 1890 = Bibliographia Marmotarum. Ramousse R., International Marmot Network, Lyon, 1997. ISBN 2 - 95099 - 0029 Guillaume Capus Jump up ^ Der Große Brockhaus in 20 vols, 15th ed., Leipzig 1928 -- 35, vol. 4 ( 1929 ), p. 319 Jump up ^ Der Große Brockhaus, vol. 14 ( 1933 ), p. 96 Jump up ^ Le Sueur, Alec ( 2003 - 01 - 01 ). The Hotel on the Roof of the World : from Miss Tibet to Shangri - La. Oakland, Calif : RDR Books. ISBN 1571431012. Jump up ^ `` Tibet : Climate Action for the Roof of the World ''. Central Tibetan Administration. Retrieved 2017 - 04 - 17. Jump up ^ Encyclopédie et Dictionnaires Larousse. Jump up ^ The Pamirs, a region known to locals as Pomir -- `` the roof of the world ''. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Roof_of_the_World&oldid=798876890 '' Categories : Metaphors Mountains of Asia Talk Contents About Wikipedia Deutsch Esperanto فارسی Nederlands اردو 中文 Edit links This page was last edited on 4 September 2017, at 09 : 47. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia ® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. About Wikipedia

Question: which place is called roof of the world
Answer: the mountainous interior of Asia, i.e. the Himalayas