List of mountains

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Contents 1 10 Highest 2 Eight-thousanders 3 Seven Summits 4 Earth, by continent 4.1 Africa 4.2 Antarctica 4.3 Asia 4.3.1 Himalaya - Karakoram 4.3.2 Others 4.4 Europe 4.4.1 Alps 4.4.2 Apennines 4.4.3 Balkans 4.4.4 Caucasus 4.4.5 Iberia 4.4.6 Iceland 4.4.7 Ireland 4.4.8 Scandinavia 4.4.9 United Kingdom 4.4.10 Carpathian Mountains 4.4.11 to be categorised 4.5 North America 4.5.1 Canada 4.5.2 Greenland 4.5.3 Mexico 4.5.4 United States 4.6 Oceania 4.6.1 Australia 4.6.2 Hawaii 4.6.3 Indonesia 4.6.4 New Guinea 4.6.5 New Zealand 4.7 South America 4.7.1 Argentina 4.7.2 Other countries 5 Extraterrestrial mountains 6 Related links

10 Highest

• Everest (8.848 m) Nepal | Tibet Asia
• K2 (8.611 m) Pakistan Asia
• Kangchenjunga (8.586 m) Nepal | India Asia
• Lhotse (8.511 m) Nepal | Tibet Asia
• Makalu (8.463 m) Nepal | Tibet Asia
• Cho Oyu (8.201 m) Nepal | Tibet Asia
• Dhaulagiri (8.167 m) Nepal Asia
• Manaslu (8.163 m) Nepal Asia
• Nanga Parbat (8.125 m) Pakistan Asia
• Annapurna (8.091 m) Nepal Asia

Eight-thousanders

The 14 "eight-thousanders", 8,000 metre or higher above sea level, all in the Himalaya:

• Mount Everest (8,848 m)
• K2 (8,611 m)
• Kangchenjunga (8,586 m)
• Lhotse (8,545 m)
• Makalu (8,462 m)
• Cho Oyu (8,201 m)
• Dhaulagiri (8,167 m)
• Manaslu (8,163 m)
• Nanga Parbat (8,126 m)
• Annapurna (8,091 m)
• Gasherbrum I (8,068 m)
• Broad Peak (8,047 m)
• Gasherbrum II (8,035 m)
• Shishapangma (8,027 m)

Seven Summits

The highest mountains of each continent (the Seven Summits):

• Mount Everest, Asia (8,850 m)
• Aconcagua, South America (6,959 m)
• Mount McKinley (Denali), North America (6,194 m)
• Kilimanjaro, Africa (5,895 m)
• Mount Elbrus, Europe (5,642 m)
• Vinson Massif, Antarctica (4,897 m)
• Mount Kosciuszko, Australia (2,228 m) or Carstensz Pyramid, Oceania (4,884 m)

Earth, by continent

Africa

• Ahaggar Mountains (2,918 m), Algeria
• Auasberge (2,484 m), Namibia
• Draken Mountains Cathkin Peak (3,650 m), Basuto-South Africa
• Emi Koussi (3,415 m), Chad
• Kompassberg (2,500 m), South Africa
• Moco (2,610 m), Angola
• Mount Baker (4,844 m) - Congo-Uganda
• Mount Cameroon (4,075 m)
• Mount Elgon (4,321 m), Kenya-Uganda
• Mount Emin (4,798 m) - Congo-Uganda
• Mount Gessi (4,715 m) - Congo-Uganda
• Mount Kadam (also known as Debasien or Tabasiat) (3054), Uganda
• Mount Karisimbi (4,507 m) - Rwanda-Congo
• Mount Kenya (5,195 m)
• Mount Kilimanjaro (5,895 m), Kenya-Tanzania - highest mountain of Africa
• Mount Luigi di Savoia (4,627 m) - Congo-Uganda
• Mount Meru (4,566 m), Tanzania - little-known due to its close proximity to Kilimanjaro
• Mount Moroto (3,083 m), Uganda
• Mount Morungole (2,750), Uganda
• Mount Speke (4,890 m) - Congo-Uganda
• Mount Stanley (5,119 m) - Congo-Uganda
• Mount Toubkal (4,167 m), Morocco
• Mount Zulia (2,149), Uganda
• Ras Dashen (4,620 m), Ethiopia
• Rungwe, Zambia (3,175 m)
• Table Mountain/Tafelberg (1,088 m) - Cape Town, South Africa

Antarctica

• Mount Erebus (3,794 m)
• Mount Fridtjof Nansen (2,740 m)
• Mount Jackson (3,050 m)
• Mount Kirkpatrick (4,528 m)
• Mount Markham (4,350 m)
• Mount Terror (3,230 m)
• Mount Tyree (4,852 m)
• Vinson Massif (4,897 m), highest mountain in Antarctica

Asia

Himalaya - Karakoram

• Annapurna (8,091 m) - #10 in the world Nepal
• Broad Peak (8,047 m) - #12 in the world Pakistan - China
• Cho Oyu (8,201 m) - #6 in the world Nepal-China
• Dhaulagiri (8,167 m) - #7 in the world Nepal
• Gangkhar Puensum (7541 m) - highest unclimbed mountain in the world Bhutan
• Gasherbrum I (8,068 m) - #11 in the world Pakistan - China
• Gasherbrum II (8,035 m) - #13 in the world Pakistan - China
• Gasherbrum III (7,952 m) - Pakistan - China
• Gasherbrum IV (7,925 m) - Pakistan - China
• K2 (8,611 m) - Pakistan, world's second highest, but a tougher climb than Everest
• Kanchenjunga (8,586 m) - #3 in the world, on the Nepal-India border
• Kamet (7,756 m) - Indian border, first peak over 25,000 ft to be climbed
• Kongur Shan (7,719 m) - western Tibet
• Kula Kangri (7,554 m) - highest peak in Bhutan
• Lhotse (8,516 m) - #4 in the world, located in Nepal
• Makalu (8,462 m) - #5 in the world, located in Nepal
• Manaslu (8,156 m) - #8 in the world, located in Nepal
• Masherbrum (7,821 m) - Pakistan
• Melungtse (7,181 m) Nepal - Tibet
• Mount Everest (8,850 m) - Nepal - Tibet border, highest mountain in the world
• Muztagh Tower (7,273 m) Pakistan
• Namcha Barwa (7,756 m) - southeast Tibet, highest peak in the eastern Himalaya
• Nanda Devi (7,816 m) India
• Nanga Parbat (8,125 m) - #9 in the world, located in Pakistan
• Pumori (7,161 m) Nepal - Tibet (Himalaya)
• Rakaposhi (7,788 m) - Pakistan
• Shishapangma (8,013 m) - #14 in the world Tibet
• Tirich Mir (7,690 m) - Pakistan
• Trango Towers (6,350 m) - Pakistan

Others

• Adam's Peak (2,243 m) - Sri Lanka
• Ararat (5,165 m) - Turkish Armenia, landing site, in folkloric elaborations of the biblical account of Noah, of his ark
• Baitou (Paektu) Mountain (2,744 m) - highest mountain in Korea, on Chinese/North Korean border
• Belukha (4,506 m) - Russia, highest peak in Altai Mountains
• Demavend (5,671 m) - Iran
• Doi Inthanon (2,565 m) highest peak in Thailand
• Gongga Shan (7,556 m) - highest peak in Sichuan, China; highest in the world outside of the Himalaya and Karakoram
• Halla Mountain (1,950 m) volcano; highest peak in South Korea
• Hkakabo Razi (5,881 m) - highest peak in Myanmar
• Ismail Samani Peak (7,496 m) - Tajikistan, highest peak in the Pamir
• Mount Kazbek (5,047 m) - Georgia, second highest mountain in Caucasus
• Klyuchevskaya Sopka (4,750 m) - Russian volcano
• Lenin Peak (7,134 m) - Tajikistan - Kyrgyzstan border (Pamir range)
• Merapi (2,911 m) Indonesia
• Mount Apo (2,954 m) - highest point in the Philippines
• Mount Fuji (3,776 m) - famous volcano, highest peak in Japan and world's most visited mountain
• Mount Jade (3,952 m) - highest peak in Taiwan
• Mount Kerinchi (3,805 m) - highest point of Barisan Range, Sumatra
• Mount Kinabalu (4,093 m) - Sabah (Borneo), Malaysia
• Noshaq (7,485 m) - highest point in Afghanistan, located in the Hindu Kush mountain range.
• Mount Tambora (2,850 m) - Indonesia
• Peak Pobeda (Tomur Feng) (7,439 m) - Kyrgyzstan - China border, highest peak in the Tian Shan

Europe

Alps

• Piz Bernina - highest Swiss peak of Eastern Alps, Switzerland-Italy (4,049 m)
• Dachstein - highest peak of Styria and Austrian Limestone Alps, first vertical climbing 19th century (2,997 m)
• Dent Blanche - Switzerland (4,356 m)
• Dent du Midi - Switzerland (3,260 m)
• Diablerets - Switzerland (3,210 m)
• Eiger - Bernese Alps, Switzerland (3,970 m)
• Finsteraarhorn - Alps, highest peak of the Bernese Oberland (4,274 m)
• Gran Paradiso - Italy (4,061 m)
• Grand Combin - Switzerland (4,314)
• Grandes Jorasses - France - Italy, Mont-Blanc range, 4,208 m
• Großglockner - highest peak of Austria (3,797 m)
• Hochkoenig - Austria near Berchtesgaden, Germany (2,938 m)
• Jungfrau - Bernese Alps, Switzerland (4,158 m)
• Koschuta - Karawanken, Austria-Slovenia - famous climbing peak (2,135 m)
• Matterhorn - photo star above Zermatt, Switzerland-Italy (4,477 m)
• Mont Blanc - France-Italy (4,808 m) - highest mountain of Western Europe
• Monte Cristallo - Dolomites, South Tyrol-Italy (3,199 m)
• Monte Rosa - Western Alps, Italy - Switzerland second highest mountain of Western Europe (4,634 m)
• Napf - Swiss Flysch Alps (1,407 m)
• Ortler - highest peak of South Tyrol, Italy (3,902 m)
• Pelvoux - French Alps, (3,946 m)
• Mount Pilatus - near Lucerne, Switzerland (2,129 m)
• Rigi - overlooking Lake Lucerne (1,797 m)
• Piz Palu - (3912 m)
• Schlern - Dolomites, South Tyrol, Italy ( m)
• Schneeberg - highest peak of Lower Austria (2,076 m)
• Tödi - Swiss Glarus Alps (3,620 m)
• Traunstein - photo star at Traun Lake, Upper Austria (1,610 m)
• Triglav - highest peak of Slovenia (2,864 m)
• Mount Titlis - Swiss Urner Alps (3,239 m)
• Untersberg - near of Salzburg city (1,973 m)
• Weisshorn - Switzerland (4,506 m)
• Wetterhorn - Switzerland (3,701 m)
• Wildspitze - Oetztaler Alps, Austria (3,774 m)
• Zugspitze - Alps - highest point in Germany (2,964 m)

See also: Alps, List of mountains of the Alps

Apennines

• Gran Sasso (2,912 m) - Italy, highest mountain in the Apennines

Balkans

• Aegaleus - Greece
• Ainos - Greece (1,628 m)
• Čvrsnica - Dinarides, Bosnia and Herzegovina (2,238 m)
• Dinara - Dinarides, Croatia-Bosnia (Troglav peak 1,913 m; Dinara peak 1,831 m)
• Hymettus - east of Athens, Greece (1,026 m)
• Korab - highest point in Albania (2,764 m)
• Musala - Bulgaria, highest mountain in Bulgaria and the Balkans (2,925 m)
• Olympus - legendary home of the Greek gods, also the highest in Greece
• Orjen - highest mountain of littoral Montenegro, during glacial periodes the heaviest glaciated Mediterranean mountain (1894 m)
• Panachaicus - northernmost mountain of the Peloponnese, east of Patras, Greece (1,926 m)
• Parnassus - Greece (2,460 m)
• Šar mountain, Republic of Macedonia-Serbia (Kosovo)-Albania (2,747 m)
• Mount Smolikas - Greece (2,640)
• Vergina - Greece (2,193 m?)
• Vihren - Bulgaria, third highest mountain in the Balkans after Musala in Bulgaria and Mount Olympus (2,915 m)

See also: List of mountains in Greece, Greek names of mountains, List of mountains in Bulgaria.

Caucasus

• Mount Elbrus (5,642 m) - highest mountain in Europe, Russia

Iberia

• Aneto (3,404 m) - Spain, highest point in the Pyrenees
• Montserrat (1,236 m) - Spain
• Mulhacén (3,482 m) - Spain, highest point in the Sierra Nevada

Iceland

• Hekla - Iceland volcano (1,491 m)
• Hvannadalshnúkur - Iceland volcano (2,119 m) - highest mountain in Iceland

Ireland

• Carrantuohill (1,041 m) - highest mountain in Ireland

Scandinavia

• Galdhøpiggen (2,469 m) - highest point in Norway
• Haltitunturi (1,328 m) - highest point in Finland
• Kebnekaise (2,111 m) - highest point in Sweden

United Kingdom

• Ben Lawers (1,214 m)
• Ben Nevis (1,300 m) - highest mountain in the United Kingdom
• Cross Fell (893 m) - highest mountain in the Pennines
• Snowdon(1,085 m) - highest mountain in Wales
• Scafell Pike (978 m) - highest mountain in England
• Kinder Scout (636 m) - highest mountain in the Peak District
• Mam Tor (517 m) - Peak District, England
• Slieve Donard (850 m) - highest mountain in Northern Ireland

See also:

Mountains of the United Kingdom

List of mountains and hills of the British Isles by height

Carpathian Mountains

• Gerlachovsky stit - highest peak in Tatra mountains, Slovakia (2,655 m)

to be categorised

• The Brocken - highest peak of Harz Mts., Eastern Germany (1,142 m)
• Etna - dominant volcano on Sicily, Italy (3,263 m)
• Feldberg - Schwarzwald, Germany (1,493 m)
• Mont Ventoux - France (1,909 m)
• Mount Circeo - Italy
• Mount Vesuvius - famous Italian volcano (1,270 m)
• Plöckenstein, Böhmerwald - Austria-Czech Republic-Germany (1,378 m)

North America

Canada

• Mount Assiniboine – Canadian Rockies
• Cascade Mountain – Canadian Rockies
• Mount Columbia (3,747m) – highest point in Alberta
• Mount Edith Cavell – Canadian Rockies
• Heart Mountain – Canadian Rockies
• Mount Logan (5,959 m) – highest mountain in Canada, second highest in North America
• Mount Robson (3,954m) – highest point in the Canadian Rockies
• Mount Rundle – Canadian Rockies
• Mount Saint Elias (5,489m) – #2 in Canada and the USA
• Mount Temple (3,543m) – highest peak in the Lake Louise area.
• Three Sisters – Canadian Rockies
• Mount Waddington – highest mountain in the Coast Mountains range of British Columbia
• Mount Yamnuska – rock climbing mecca in the Canadian Rockies

Greenland

• Mount Gunnbjørn (3700 m) – Watkins Range - highest mountain in Greenland

Mexico

• Cofre de Perote or "Naupa-Tecutépetl" or "Nauhcampatépetl" or "Square Mountain" ( 4282 m) – Veracruz
• Volcán de Fuego de Colima (3,860 m) – Jalisco/Colima border
• Iztaccíhuatl or "White Woman" or "Asleep Woman" (5,286 m) – México state/Puebla border
• La Malinche, or "Matlalcueitl" (4462 m) – Tlaxcala/Puebla border
• Nevado de Colima or "Zapotepetl" (4,330 m) – Jalisco/Colima border
• Nevado de Toluca or "Xinantecatl" (4577 m) – México state
• Pico de Orizaba, or "Citlaltépetl" (5,610 m) – Puebla/Veracruz border, highest point in Mexico
• Paricutín (3,170 m) – Michoacán
• Popocatépetl (5,465 m) – México state
• Cerro del Potosí (3,700 m) – Nuevo León
• El Coahuilón (3,500 m) – Coahuila/Nuevo León border
• Cerro La Cruz del Marqúes (3,931m) – Mexico City
• Pico del Águila (3,894 m) – Mexico City
• La Martha (3,706 m) – Coahuila/Nuevo León border
• La Viga (3,600 m) – Coahuila
• Cerro Las Nieves (3,360 m) – Coahuila
• Yeloxochtl (3,919 m) – México state
• Tlalocatepetl or "Tlaloc Mountain" (4,151 m) – México state
• Telapon (4,081 m) – México state
• Tacana (4,110 m) – Chiapas/Guatemala
• Sierra Negra (4,680 – Puebla
• Pico Piramide (1,960) m – Nuevo León
• Pico Piñon (1,785) m – Nuevo León
• Pico Perico (1,980) m – Nuevo León
• Pico Everest (1,960) m – Nuevo León
• Pico Cuauhtémoc (2,020) m – Nuevo León
• Peña de Bernal (2,515) m – Queretaro
• Matacanes (1,800) m – Nuevo León
• La Mota Grande (1,880) m – Nuevo León
• La Calle (2,905) m – Nuevo León
• Tres Vírgenes (1940) m – Baja California Sur
• Evermann (1050) m – Islas Revillagigedo
• Ceboruco or "Volcan de Ahuacatlán" (2,280) m – Nayarit
• Sangagüey (2,353) m – Nayarit
• La Primavera (3,030) m – Jalisco
• El Jorullo (1,820) m – Michoacán
• Los Humeros (3,150)m – Puebla
• El Chichón (1,150) m – Chiapas
• El Pinacate (1,200) m – Sonora
• San Martín Tuxtla (1,650) m – Veracruz
• Amealco (3,040) m – Queretaro
• Cerro de la Estrella or "Star Mountain" (2,613 m) – Mexico City
• Cerro del Garbanzo (3,000 m) – Durango
• Holotepec (3,930 m) – México state
• Chichinautzin (3,450 m) – México state/Morelos
• Jahuey (2,000 m) – Durango
• Ololica (3,120 m) – Morelos
• Volcan de San Quintín (1,200 m) – Baja California
• Tepetiltic (2,020) m – Nayarit
• Volcán de Tequila (3,000) m – Jalisco
• Tetlalmanche (2,700 m) – Mexico City
• Teutli (2,600 m) – Mexico City
• Los Tres Reyes Magos – México state

United States

• Mount Adams – Cascades, Washington
• Mount Baker – Cascades, Washington
• Mount Baxter – California
• Mount Borah – Idaho
• Bridge Mountain – Red Rock Canyon, Nevada
• Camel's Hump – Green Mountains, Vermont
• Cathedral Peak – California
• Mount Columbia – Colorado
• Mount Dana – California
• Devils Tower – Wyoming
• Mount Diablo – California
• Mount Elbert (4,401 m) – Sawatch Range, Colorado, highest point in the Rocky Mountains
• Mount Foraker – Alaska
• Gannett Peak – Wyoming
• Glacier Peak – Cascades, Washington
• Grand Teton – Wyoming
• Mount Greylock – Massachusetts
• Half Dome – California
• Mount Hood – Cascades, Oregon
• Horsetooth Mountain – Colorado
• Mount Jefferson – Cascades, Oregon
• Jobs Peak – Sierra Nevada
• Mount Katahdin – at north end of the Appalachian Trail
• Mount Lassen – Cascades, California
• Mount Lemmon (2,791 m) – Santa Catalina Mountains, Arizona
• Longs Peak – Colorado
• Mammoth Mountain – California
• Mount Mansfield – Green Mountains, Vermont
• Maroon Bells – Colorado
• Mount Massive – Sawatch Range, Colorado
• Mauna Loa – Hawaii; see Oceania.
• Mount McKinley or Denali (6,194 m) – highest mountain in North America
• Mount Mitchell – highest mountain of the Appalachians
• Mount Monadnock – New Hampshire
• Newberry Volcano – Oregon
• Mount Olympus – Washington
• Pikes Peak – Colorado
• Mount Rainier (4,392 m) – Cascades, Washington
• Mount Saint Elias (5,489m) – #2 in Canada and the USA
• San Jacinto Peak (3,293 m) – California
• Mount Shasta – California
• Mount Shuksan – Cascades
• Mount St. Helens – active volcano in the Cascades, Washington
• Mount Si – Cascades, short but popular
• Mount Stuart – Cascades, Washington
• Mount Timpanogos – Wasatch Range, Utah
• Three Sisters – Oregon
• Mount Washington – highest peak in northeastern United States, worst weather in the world
• Mount Werner – Colorado – Location of the Steamboat Ski Resort
• Wheeler Peak – highest peak in Nevada
• Mount Whitney (4,421 m) – Sierra Nevada, highest mountain in the continental United States

Oceania

Australia

• The Blue Mountains — New South Wales
• Mount Buffalo — Victoria
• Cradle Mountain National Park — Tasmania
• Mount Dandenong — near Melbourne — Victoria
• Mount Keira — mountain in the Illawarra escarpment near Keiraville, Wollongong New South Wales
• Mount Kembla — mountain in the Illawarra escarpment near Unanderra, Wollongong New South Wales
• Mount Kosciuszko (2,228 m) — highest mountain in mainland Australia — New South Wales
• Mount Tallebudgera — Gold Coast — Queensland
• Mount Wellington (1,271 m)— Tasmania

Hawaii

• Mauna Loa a volcanic seamount that is earth's largest mountain, when measured from its base under the ocean.
• Mauna Kea
• Kilauea

Indonesia

Bali

• Mount Agung

New Guinea

• Carstensz Pyramid

New Zealand

• Mount Anglem
• Mount Aspiring
• Mount Cook - highest mountain in New Zealand
• Mount Dampier
• Mount Edgecumbe
• Mount Hikurangi
• Mount Hopkins
• Mount Hutt
• Mount Matthews
• Mount Maunganui
• Mount Ngauruhoe
• Mount Owen
• Mount Pirongia
• Mount Ruapehu
• Mount Silberhorn
• Mount Tapuaenuku
• Mount Taranaki (also known as Mt. Egmont)
• Mount Tarawera
• Mount Tasman
• Mount Tongariro
• Mount Wellington

South America

Argentina

• Aconcagua - Argentina, highest mountain outside of Asia
• Cerro Torre 3,133- Patagonia, Argentina. This was long considered the hardest mountain climb in the world.
• Fitz Roy 3,375 - Argentina
• Lanin Volcano- Argentina
• Cerro Mercedario - Argentina
• Llullaillaco - Argentina

Other countries

• Mount Chimborazo - Ecuador
• Cotopaxi - Ecuador
• Pico Cristóbal Colón - Colombia
• Huascaran - highest mountain of Peru
• Illimani 6,462m - Bolivia
• Ojos del Salado - highest mountain of Chile, second highest of the Andean peaks
• Nevado del Ruiz - Colombia
• Mount Roraima - Guyana
• Sugar Loaf Mountain - Rio de Janeiro

Extraterrestrial mountains

• List of mountains on the Moon
• List of mountains on Mercury
• List of mountains on Venus
• List of mountains on Mars

Related links

• Fell - arctic treeless mountains
• List of highest mountains
• List of mountains by elevation
• List of mountains in Albania
• List of mountains in Brazil
• List of mountains in Greece
• List of mountains in India
• List of mountains in Iran
• List of mountains in Ireland
• List of the 100 famous mountains in Japan
• List of mountains in Korea
• List of mountains in Nepal
• List of mountains in Pakistan
• Mountains of the United Kingdom
• List of mountains of the United States
• Mountain range
• List of mountain ranges
• List of volcanoes
• List of mountain passes
• List of peaks by prominence