Mount Ararat

Mount Ararat, officially Mount Ağrı, or also known as Masis is a snow- capped and dormant compound volcano in easternmost Turkey. It consists of two major volcanic cones: Greater Ararat and .
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  • Type: Volcano with an elevation of 5,137 metres
  • Description: highest peak in Turkey
  • Also known as: “Agri Dagi”, “Ararat”, “Greater Ararat”, “Mount Aghri”, “Mount Agri”, and “Mountain of the Ark”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Mount Ararat National Park.

Nature reserve
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is a nature reserve.

Mount Ararat

Latitude
39.70194° or 39° 42′ 7″ north
Longitude
44.2984° or 44° 17′ 54″ east
Elevation
5,137 metres (16,854 feet)
Open location code
8HF6P72X+Q9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 130065410
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­volcano
Geo­Names ID
325164
Wiki­data ID
Q72303
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Yue Chinese—“Mount Ararat” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Арарат”
  • Afrikaans: “Ararat”
  • Albanian: “Ararati”
  • Albanian: “Mali Ararat”
  • Amharic: “ደብረ አራራት”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ἀραράθ”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ἀραράτ”
  • Arabic: “أرارات”
  • Arabic: “ارارات”
  • Arabic: “جبل آرارات”
  • Arabic: “جبل أرارات”
  • Aragonese: “Ararat”
  • Armenian: “Արարատ”
  • Armenian: “Մասիս”
  • Asturian: “Monte Arará”
  • Asturian: “Monte Ararat”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ağrı dağı” (historical)
  • Bashkir: “Арарат”
  • Basque: “Ararat mendi”
  • Basque: “Ararat mendia”
  • Basque: “Ararat”
  • Belarusian: “Арарат”
  • Belarusian: “Вялікі Арарат”
  • Bengali: “আরারাত পর্বত”
  • Bosnian: “Ararat”
  • Breton: “Ararat”
  • Breton: “Menez Ararat”
  • Bulgarian: “Арарат (планина)”
  • Bulgarian: “Арарат (планински масив)”
  • Bulgarian: “Арарат”
  • Catalan: “Ağrı Dağı”
  • Catalan: “Ararat”
  • Catalan: “Gran Ararat”
  • Catalan: “Muntanya Ararat”
  • Catalan: “Petit Ararat”
  • Cebuano: “Mount Ararat”
  • Central Kurdish: “کێوی ئارارات”
  • Chechen: “Арарат”
  • Chinese: “亚拉腊山”
  • Chinese: “亞拉拉特山”
  • Chinese: “亞拉臘山”
  • Chinese: “大阿勒山”
  • Chinese: “阿勒山”
  • Chuvash: “Арарат”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Ağrı dağı”
  • Croatian: “Ararat”
  • Czech: “Ararat”
  • Czech: “nejvyšší hora Turecka”
  • Danish: “Ararat”
  • Danish: “Ararats bjerg”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Koê Ararati”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Koyê Ararati”
  • Dutch: “Ararat”
  • Dutch: “Mount Ararat”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل ارارات”
  • Esperanto: “Ararato”
  • Estonian: “Ararat”
  • Estonian: “Ararati mägi”
  • Estonian: “Suur-Ararat”
  • Faroese: “Ararat”
  • Faroese: “Árarat”
  • Finnish: “Ararat”
  • French: “Ağrı Dağı”
  • French: “mont Ararat”
  • French: “Mont Ararat”
  • Galician: “Monte Ararat”
  • Georgian: “არარატი”
  • German: “Ararat”
  • German: “Grosser Ararat”
  • German: “Großer Ararat”
  • Gilaki: “آرارات ٚ کۊ”
  • Greek: “Αραράτ”
  • Hebrew: “אררט”
  • Hebrew: “הר אררט”
  • Hindi: “अरारत पर्वत”
  • Hungarian: “Ararát-hegy”
  • Hungarian: “Ararát”
  • Icelandic: “Ararat”
  • Indonesian: “Ararat”
  • Indonesian: “Gunung Ararat”
  • Italian: “Ararat”
  • Italian: “Monte Ararat”
  • Japanese: “アララット山”
  • Japanese: “アララト山”
  • Javanese: “Gunung Ararat”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Ararat”
  • Kazakh: “Арарат жанартауы”
  • Kirghiz: “Арарат”
  • Korean: “아라라트산”
  • Kurdish: “Agiriya Mezin”
  • Kurdish: “Agiriyê Mezin”
  • Kurdish: “Agirîyê Mezin”
  • Kurdish: “Ararad”
  • Kurdish: “Ararat”
  • Kurdish: “Çiyayê Agirî”
  • Kurdish: “Çiyayê Agiriyê”
  • Kurdish: “Çiyayê Ararat”
  • Kurdish: “Çiyayê Araratê”
  • Kurdish: “Grîdax”
  • Ladin: “Ararat”
  • Ladino: “Monte Ararat”
  • Latin: “Ararat”
  • Latin: “Araratus”
  • Latin: “Mons Ararat”
  • Latvian: “Āgri kalns”
  • Latvian: “Āgri”
  • Latvian: “Agridags”
  • Latvian: “Ararats”
  • Lithuanian: “Araratas”
  • Lithuanian: “Ararato kalnas”
  • Lombard: “Mont Ararat”
  • Luxembourgish: “Ararat”
  • Macedonian: “Арарат”
  • Malagasy: “Tendrombohitra Ararata”
  • Malay: “Ararat”
  • Malay: “Pergunungan Ararat”
  • Malayalam: “അരരാത്ത് പർവ്വതം”
  • Mazanderani: “آرارات”
  • Northern Frisian: “Ararat”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Agri Dagi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ararat”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Agri Dagi”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ağrı Dağı”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ararat”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Masis”
  • Norwegian: “Ararat”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Mount Ararat”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Mont Ararat”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ࡈࡅࡓࡀ ࡖࡒࡀࡓࡃࡅࡍ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ࡒࡀࡓࡃࡅࡍ”
  • Ossetian: “Арарат”
  • Persian: “کوه آرارات”
  • Persian: “کوهٔ آرارات”
  • Persian: “کوه آغری”
  • Persian: “کوه ارارات”
  • Polish: “Ararat”
  • Polish: “Góra Ararat”
  • Portuguese: “Aratate”
  • Portuguese: “Monte Ararat”
  • Portuguese: “Monte Ararate”
  • Portuguese: “Monte Aratate”
  • Portuguese: “Monte de Ararate”
  • Portuguese: “Montes Ararat”
  • Portuguese: “Montes Ararate”
  • Portuguese: “Montes de Ararate”
  • Romanian: “Ararat”
  • Romanian: “Muntele Ararat”
  • Russian: “Агри-Даги”
  • Russian: “Агры-Дагы”
  • Russian: “Арарат”
  • Russian: “Большой Арарат”
  • Russian: “Гора Арарат”
  • Scots: “Moont Ararat”
  • Serbian: “Арарат”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ararat”
  • Sicilian: “Ararat”
  • Slovak: “Ararat”
  • Slovenian: “Ararat”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آرارات”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آغری داغی”
  • Spanish: “Monte Ararat”
  • Sundanese: “Gunung Ararat”
  • Swahili: “Ararat”
  • Swedish: “Agri Dagi”
  • Swedish: “Ağrı Dağı”
  • Swedish: “Ararat”
  • Swedish: “Araratbergen”
  • Swedish: “Durupinar”
  • Swedish: “Durupınar”
  • Swiss German: “Ararat”
  • Swiss German: “Chly Ararat”
  • Swiss German: “Gross Ararat”
  • Tamil: “அரராத் மலை”
  • Tamil: “அரராத்து”
  • Tatar: “Ağrı Tawı”
  • Thai: “เขาอาระรัต”
  • Thai: “เขาอารารัต”
  • Thai: “เขาแอระแรต”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Ararat”
  • Turkish: “Agri Dagi”
  • Turkish: “Ağrı Dagı”
  • Turkish: “Ağrı Dağı”
  • Turkish: “Ararat Dağı”
  • Turkish: “Ararat”
  • Turkish: “Büyük Ağrı Dağı”
  • Turkish: “Büyük Ağrı”
  • Turkish: “Cebel ül Haris”
  • Turkish: “Kuh-i Nuh”
  • Turkmen: “Ararat dagy”
  • Ukrainian: “Арарат”
  • Ukrainian: “Великий Арарат”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Ararat”
  • Urdu: “ارارات”
  • Urdu: “کوہ ارارات”
  • Uzbek: “Ararat”
  • Venetian: “Ararat”
  • Veps: “Ararat”
  • Vietnamese: “Núi Ararat”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bukid Ararat”
  • Welsh: “Mynydd Ararat”
  • Western Armenian: “Այրարատ”
  • Western Armenian: “Արարատ”
  • Western Armenian: “Մասիս”
  • Western Frisian: “Ararat (berch)”
  • Western Frisian: “Ararat”
  • Western Panjabi: “ارارات”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿勒山”
  • Yakut: “Арараат”
  • Yue Chinese: “亞拉臘山”

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