Mount Elgon
Mount Elgon is an extinct shield volcano on the border of Uganda and Kenya, north of Kisumu, east of Mbale and west of Kitale. The mountain's highest point, named "Wagagai", is located entirely within Uganda.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
- Type: Volcano with an elevation of 4,321 metres
- Description: shield volcano on the border of Uganda and Kenya
- Also known as: “Masaba”, “Masawa”, and “Mt. Elgon”
Mount Elgon
- Categories: mountain, shield volcano, and landform
- Location: Kenya, East Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
1.13789° or 1° 8′ 16″ northLongitude
34.56035° or 34° 33′ 37″ eastElevation
4,321 metres (14,177 feet)Open location code
6GHP4HQ6+54OpenStreetMap ID
node 3911610775OpenStreetMap feature
natural=volcano
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Satellite Map
Discover Mount Elgon from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Vietnamese—“Mount Elgon” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Elgon”
- Afrikaans: “Mount Elgon”
- Arabic: “جبل إلغون”
- Armenian: “Էլգոն”
- Basque: “Elgon mendia”
- Belarusian: “Элган”
- Bulgarian: “Връх Елгон”
- Bulgarian: “Елгон”
- Catalan: “Mont Elgon”
- Cebuano: “Mount Elgon”
- Chinese: “埃塞貢山”
- Chinese: “埃尔贡山”
- Chinese: “埃爾貢山”
- Czech: “Mount Elgon”
- Danish: “Mount Elgon”
- Dutch: “Mount Elgon”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل مونت الجون”
- Esperanto: “Monto Elgon”
- Esperanto: “Mt Elgon”
- Finnish: “Elgon”
- French: “mont Elgon”
- French: “Mont Elgon”
- French: “Mount Elgon”
- French: “Wagagai”
- Galician: “Monte Elgon”
- Georgian: “ელგონის მთა”
- German: “Elgon”
- German: “Mount Elgon”
- Greek: “Έλγον”
- Greek: “Όρος Έλγκον”
- Greek: “Όρος Έλγον”
- Hausa: “Dutsen Elgon”
- Hebrew: “הר אלגון”
- Hungarian: “Elgon-hegy”
- Indonesian: “Gunung Elgon”
- Italian: “Monte Elgon”
- Japanese: “エルゴン山”
- Kazakh: “Элгон”
- Korean: “엘곤산”
- Ladin: “Mount Elgon”
- Lithuanian: “Elgonas”
- Macedonian: “Елгон”
- Malay: “Gunung Elgon”
- Malayalam: “എൽഗോൺ പർവ്വതം”
- Persian: “کوه الگان”
- Polish: “Elgon”
- Polish: “Góra Elgon”
- Polish: “Koitobos”
- Polish: “Mount Elgon National Park”
- Polish: “Mount Elgon”
- Polish: “Mubiyi”
- Polish: “Park Narodowy Elgon”
- Polish: “Park Narodowy Góra Elgon”
- Polish: “Park Narodowy Góry Elgon”
- Polish: “Park Narodowy Mount Elgon”
- Polish: “Wagagai”
- Portuguese: “Monte Elgon”
- Russian: “Элгон”
- Russian: “Эльгон”
- Slovenian: “Mount Elgon”
- Spanish: “Monte Elgon”
- Sundanese: “Gunung Elgon”
- Swahili: “Elgon”
- Swedish: “Elgon”
- Swedish: “Mount Elgon”
- Tatar: “Элгон тавы”
- Turkish: “Elgon Dağı”
- Ukrainian: “Елгон”
- Venetian: “Monte Elgon”
- Vietnamese: “Núi Elgon”
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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 Elgon”. Photo: NASA, Public domain.