Mount Karkom
Mount Karkom, also Har Karkom, from Arabic Jabal Karkoum, is a mountain in the southwest Negev desert in Israel, halfway between Petra and Kadesh Barnea. It is 847 meter high.
- Type: Mountain with an elevation of 835 metres
- Description: mountain in Palestine
- Also known as: “Djebel Ideid”, “Gebel Ideid”, “Har Geshur”, “Har Karkom”, “Jabal Ideid”, “Jebel ‘Ideid”, “Jebel Edeid”, and “فلسطين”
Mount Karkom
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Southern District, Israel, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
30.28616° or 30° 17′ 10″ north
Longitude
34.74478° or 34° 44′ 41″ east
Elevation
835 metres (2,740 feet)
Open location code
8G2P7PPV+FW
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Venetian—“Mount Karkom” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جبل عديد فلسطين”
- Arabic: “جبل عديد”
- Armenian: “Կարկոմ լեռ”
- Cebuano: “Har Karkom”
- Chinese: “卡科姆山”
- Dutch: “Har Karkom”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل كركوم”
- French: “Har Karkom”
- German: “Har Karkom”
- Hebrew: “הר כרכום”
- Hebrew: “הר כרכם”
- Italian: “Har Karkom”
- Ladin: “Har Karkom”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Har Karkom”
- Persian: “کوه کرکوم”
- Portuguese: “Har Karkom”
- Russian: “Хар-Карком”
- Spanish: “Har Karkom”
- Swedish: “Har Karkom”
- Venetian: “Har Karkom”
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Places to explore: Midbar Paran and Meẕar Karkom.
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Highlights: Shluẖat Karkom and Har Haroz.
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