Mount Meru
Mount Meru is a dormant stratovolcano located 70 kilometres west of Kilimanjaro in southeast Arusha Region, Tanzania. At a height of 4,562.13 metres, it is visible from Mount Kilimanjaro on a clear day, and is the eighth-highest mountain of Africa.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Volcano with an elevation of 4,566 metres
- Description: mountain
- Also known as: “Meru West” and “Socialist Peak”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Arusha National Park.
Arusha National Park
Photo: Norocron, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Arusha National Park is a national park of Tanzania, with the IUCN category II located within Meru District and Arusha Rural District of the Arusha Region of Tanzania that covers Mount Meru, a prominent volcano with an elevation of 4566 m.
Mount Meru
- Categories: mountain, peak, and landform
- Location: Ngarenanyuki, Arumeru District, Arusha, Tanzania, East Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-3.24343° or 3° 14′ 36″ southLongitude
36.74979° or 36° 44′ 59″ eastElevation
4,566 metres (14,980 feet)Open location code
6G8RQP4X+JWOpenStreetMap ID
node 568971584OpenStreetMap feature
natural=volcano
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Satellite Map
Discover Mount Meru from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Mount Meru” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جبل ميرو”
- Basque: “Meru mendia”
- Belarusian: “Меру”
- Bulgarian: “Меру”
- Bulgarian: “Орок”
- Cebuano: “Meru Game Reserve”
- Cebuano: “Meru West”
- Chinese: “梅盧山”
- Chinese: “梅魯火山”
- Chinese: “梅鲁火山”
- Croatian: “Meru”
- Czech: “Mount Meru”
- Danish: “Mount Meru”
- Dutch: “Mount Meru”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل مونت ميرو”
- Esperanto: “Monto Meru”
- Estonian: “Meru mägi”
- Estonian: “Meru”
- Finnish: “Meru”
- French: “Mont Meru”
- French: “mont Méru”
- French: “Mont Méru”
- Georgian: “მერუ”
- German: “Miriakamba-Hütte”
- German: “Mount Meru”
- Greek: “Όρος Μέρου”
- Hebrew: “הר מרו”
- Hebrew: “מרו”
- Indonesian: “Gunung Meru”
- Italian: “Monte Meru”
- Japanese: “メルー山”
- Japanese: “メル山”
- Korean: “메루산”
- Ladin: “Mount Meru”
- Latvian: “Meru (vulkāns)”
- Latvian: “Meru”
- Lithuanian: “Meru”
- Macedonian: “Меру”
- Malayalam: “മൌണ്ട് മെരു”
- Malayalam: “മൗണ്ട് മെരു”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mount Meru”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mount Meru”
- Norwegian: “Mount Meru”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Mont Meru”
- Persian: “آتشفشان مرو”
- Persian: “اتشفشان مرو”
- Persian: “کوه مرو”
- Persian: “کوهٔ مرو”
- Polish: “Meru”
- Portuguese: “Meru”
- Portuguese: “Monte Meru”
- Russian: “Меру”
- Russian: “Пик Социализма”
- Slovak: “Meru”
- Slovenian: “Meru (gora)”
- Slovenian: “Meru”
- Spanish: “Monte Meru”
- Swahili: “Mlima Meru”
- Swedish: “Mount Meru”
- Thai: “เขาเมรู”
- Ukrainian: “Меру”
- Ukrainian: “Міру”
- Venetian: “Monte Meru”
- Vietnamese: “Núi Meru”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Lost Joseph Pallangio point and Saddle Hut.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Mount Meru Ashcone and Rhino Point.
Tanzania: Must-Visit Destinations
Delve into Dar es Salaam, Mount Kilimanjaro, Dodoma, and Arusha.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Mount Meru”. Photo: Toksave, CC BY-SA 3.0.