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List of mountains
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, Algeria (3,000 m)
- Toubkal, Morocco (4,165 m)
- Auasberge , Namibia (2,484 m)
- Kompassberg , South Africa (2,500 m)
- Draken Mountains Cathkin Peak , Basuto -South Africa (3,650 m)
- Emi Koussi, Chad (3,415 m)
- Moco , Angola (2,610 m)
- Mount Cameroon (4,075 m)
- Mount Elgon, Kenya (4,321 m)
- Mount Kenya (5,195 m)
- Kilimanjaro, Kenya-Tanzania (5,895 m) - highest mountain of Africa
- Mount Meru, Tanzania (4,566 m) - little-known due to its close proximity to Kilimanjaro
- Ras Dashan, Ethiopia (4,620 m)
- Mount Baker (4,844 m) - Congo-Uganda
- Mount Emin (4,798 m) - Congo-Uganda
- Mount Gessi (4,715 m) - Congo-Uganda
- Mount Stanley (5,119 m) - Congo-Uganda
- Mount Luigi di Savoia (4,627 m) - Congo-Uganda
- Mount Speke (4,890 m) - Congo-Uganda
- Rungwe , Zambia (3,175 m)
- Table Mountain/Tafelberg (1,088 m) - Cape Town, South Africa
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-Tibet
- 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-Sikkim 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
- 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
- Mount Nowshak (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
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)
- Olympus - legendary home of the Greek gods, also the highest in Greece (2,911 m)
- Musala - Bulgaria, highest mountain in the Balkans (2,925 m)
- Panachaicus - northernmost mountain of the Peloponnese, east of Patras, Greece (1,926 m)
- Parnassus - Greece (2,460 m)
- Plevlja , Bosnia-Montenegro (2,238 m)
- Šar Planina, Macedonia-Serbia (Kosovo) (2,747 m)
- Vergina - Greece (2,193 m?)
- Vihren - Bulgaria, second highest mountain in the Balkans (2,915 m)
See also: List of mountains in Greece , Greek names of mountains, List of mountains in Bulgaria .
Caucasus
Iberia
Ireland
Scandinavia
United Kingdom
Carpathian Mountains
to be categorised
- The Brocken - highest peak of Harz Mts., Eastern Germany (1,142 m)
- Etna - dominant volcano on Sicily, Italy (3,263 m)
- Großer Feldberg - Schwarzwald, Germany (1,493 m)
- Hekla - Iceland volcano (1,491 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
Mexico
United States
- Mount Adams – Cascades, Washington
- Mount Baker – Cascades, Washington
- Mount Baxter – California
- Mount Borah – Idaho
- Bridge Mountain – Red Rock Canyon, Nevada
- 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
- Glacier Peak – Cascades, Washington
- Grand Teton – Wyoming
- Mount Greylock – Massachusetts
- Half Dome – California
- Heart Mountain – Canadian Rockies
- 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 Logan (5,959 m) – highest mountain in Canada, second highest in North America
- Longs Peak – Colorado
- Mammoth Mountain – California
- 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
- Wheeler Peak – highest peak in Nevada
- Mount Whitney (4,421 m) – Sierra Nevada, highest mountain in the continental United States
Oceania
Australia
Hawaii
Indonesia
Bali
New Guinea
New Zealand
South America
Extraterrestrial mountains
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