Mount Baker
Mount Baker or Kiyanja is a mountain in the Rwenzori Mountains National Park in Uganda, 2.8 kilometres from the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Mountain with an elevation of 4,752 metres
- Description: mountain in the Rwenzori Mountains National Park in Uganda
- Also known as: “Kiyanja”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Rwenzori Mountains National Park and Margherita Peak.
Rwenzori Mountains National Park
Photo: Massimo Telò, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Rwenzori Mountains National Park is a Ugandan national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site located in the Rwenzori Mountains. Almost 1,000 km2 in size, the park has Africa's third highest mountain peak and many waterfalls, lakes, and glaciers.
Margherita Peak
Peak
Photo: El.Sarmiento, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Margherita Peak is situated 3 km northwest of Mount Baker.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rwenzori–Virunga montane moorlands.
Rwenzori–Virunga montane moorlands
Locality
Photo: FatAlbert, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Ruwenzori-Virunga montane moorlands is a montane grasslands and shrublands ecoregion of the Rwenzori Mountains and Virunga Mountains in central Africa. Rwenzori–Virunga montane moorlands is situated 6 km south of Mount Baker.
Mount Baker
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Bugoye, Busongora County, Kasese District, Western Uganda, Uganda, East Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Ukrainian—“Mount Baker” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Baker mendia (Uganda)”
- Basque: “Baker mendia”
- Catalan: “Mont Baker”
- Cebuano: “Baker”
- Chinese: “贝克山”
- Dutch: “Mount Baker”
- French: “mont Baker”
- French: “Mont Baker”
- German: “Mount Baker”
- Hebrew: “הר בייקר”
- Hungarian: “Baker-hegy”
- Japanese: “ベイカー山群”
- Ladin: “Mount Baker”
- Luba-Lulua: “Mukuna wa Baker”
- Persian: “کوه بیکر (اوگاندا)”
- Persian: “کوه بیکر”
- Polish: “Mount Baker”
- Spanish: “Monte Baker”
- Swahili: “Mlima Baker”
- Swedish: “Mount Baker, Uganda”
- Swedish: “Mount Baker”
- Ukrainian: “Бейкер”
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About Mapcarta. 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 Baker”. Photo: FatAlbert, CC BY-SA 4.0.