Mount Arafat
Mount Arafat is a granodiorite hill about 20 km southeast of Mecca, in the province of the same name in Saudi Arabia. It is approximately 70 m in height, with its highest point sitting at an elevation of 454 metres.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 334 metres
- Description: mountain in Saudi Arabia
- Also known as: “Jabal `Arafat”, “Jabal ar Rahmah”, “Jabal ar Raḩmah”, “Mount of Ilal”, “Mount of Mercy”, and “Mount of Tawba”
Mount Arafat
- Categories: mountain, sacred place, historic site, and landform
- Location: Mecca Region, Saudi Arabia, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
21.3548° or 21° 21′ 17″ northLongitude
39.9841° or 39° 59′ 3″ eastElevation
334 metres (1,096 feet)Open location code
7GHX9X3M+WJOpenStreetMap ID
node 1236463804OpenStreetMap feature
historic=yesOpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakGeoNames ID
108527Wikidata ID
Q216894
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Mount Arafat” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Berg Arafat”
- Albanian: “Mali i Arafatit”
- Arabic: “جبل الرحمة”
- Arabic: “جبل عرفات”
- Arabic: “جبل عرفة”
- Arabic: “جبل عرفه”
- Arabic: “عرفات”
- Arabic: “عرفة”
- Arabic: “عرفه”
- Assamese: “আৰাফাত পৰ্বত”
- Azerbaijani: “Ərəfat dağı”
- Banjar: “Arpah”
- Bashkir: “Ғәрәфәт (тау)”
- Bashkir: “Ғәрәфәт”
- Basque: “Arafat mendia”
- Bengali: “আরাফাত পর্বত”
- Bengali: “আরাফাতের পাহাড়”
- Bosnian: “Arefat”
- Catalan: “Arafat”
- Cebuano: “Jabal ‘Arafāt”
- Central Kurdish: “کێوی عەرەفە”
- Chinese: “仁慈山”
- Chinese: “阿拉法特山”
- Czech: “Arafát”
- Dutch: “Vlakte van Arafat”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل عرفه”
- Esperanto: “Monto Arafat”
- Estonian: “Arafati mägi”
- Finnish: “Arafat-vuori”
- French: “Jabal ar-Rahmah”
- French: “mont Arafat”
- French: “Mont Arafat”
- French: “montagne de la miséricorde”
- German: “Arafat”
- German: “Berg Arafat”
- German: “Stehen auf Arafat”
- German: “Stehen auf dem Berg Arafat”
- German: “Tag von Arafa”
- German: “Wuquf”
- German: “Wuqūf”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Mount Arafat”
- Hausa: “Dutsen Arfa”
- Hebrew: “הר ערפאת”
- Hindi: “अरफ़ात पहाड़”
- Hindi: “अराफात पहाड़”
- Hindi: “मक़ामे अराफात”
- Hindi: “माउंट अराफात”
- Hindi: “मैदाने अराफात”
- Indonesian: “Gunung Arafat”
- Indonesian: “Jabal Rahmah”
- Indonesian: “Pegunungan Arafah”
- Italian: “monte Arafat”
- Italian: “Monte Arafat”
- Japanese: “アラファト山”
- Javanese: “Arafah”
- Kazakh: “Арафат”
- Kirghiz: “Арафат”
- Korean: “아라파트산”
- Kurdish: “Çiyayê Erefatê”
- Kurdish: “Sere Gire Arafe”
- Ladin: “Mount Arafat”
- Lak: “Аьрафат”
- Latvian: “Arafāta kalns”
- Lithuanian: “Arafato kalnas”
- Malay: “Arafah”
- Malay: “Gunung Arafah”
- Malay: “Padang Arafah”
- Malayalam: “അറഫ മല”
- Minangkabau: “Gunuang Arafah”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Arafat”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Arafatberget”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Arafatfjellet”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Arafathøyden”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Arafatsletta”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Arafatsletten”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Arafatberget”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Arafatfjellet”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Arafathøgda”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Arafatsletta”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jabal ‘Arafat”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “جبل عرفات”
- Norwegian: “Arafatberget”
- Persian: “جبل الرحمه”
- Persian: “صحرای عرفات”
- Persian: “کوه عرفات”
- Portuguese: “Monte Arafat”
- Portuguese: “Monte Arafate”
- Russian: “Арафа”
- Russian: “Арафат”
- Russian: “Гора Арафат”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Arefat”
- Sindhi: “عرفات (جبل)”
- Sindhi: “عرفات”
- Slovenian: “Gora Arafat”
- Spanish: “Monte Arafat”
- Swahili: “Mlima Arafa”
- Swedish: “Arafat”
- Tajik: “Арафа”
- Tamil: “அரபா குன்று”
- Tatar: “Гарәфә тавы”
- Tatar: “Гарәфәт”
- Telugu: “అరాఫత్ పర్వతం”
- Thai: “เขาอะเราะฟะฮ์”
- Thai: “เขาอะเราะฟาต”
- Thai: “ญะบะลุรเราะฮ์มะฮ์”
- Turkish: “Arafat Dağı”
- Turkish: “Arafat”
- Ukrainian: “Арафат”
- Urdu: “جبل رحمت”
- Urdu: “عرفات”
- Urdu: “مقام عرفات”
- Urdu: “مقام عرفہ”
- Urdu: “میدان عرفات”
- Uzbek: “Arafot”
- Venetian: “Monte Arafat”
- Western Panjabi: “جبل عرفات”
- “al-Duaa”
- “al-Qurain”
- “Jabal al-Rahmah”
- “جبل الرحمة”
- “جبل عرفات”
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