Shkhara
Shkhara is a mountain peak and the highest point in the country of Georgia. It is located on the Georgia–Russia border, in Russia's Kabardino-Balkaria region on the northern side, and the Svaneti region of Georgia in the south.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Peak with an elevation of 5,201 metres
- Description: highest mountain of Main Caucasus Range, Caucasus Mountains, Georgia and Russia
- Also known as: “Gora Shkhara”, “Mt’a Shkhara”, and “Schchara Berg”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Shota Rustaveli Peak.
Shota Rustaveli Peak
Peak
Photo: Grtek, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Shota Rustaveli is a mountain in the central part of the Greater Caucasus Mountain Range, straddling the border of Svaneti and Kabardino-Balkaria. The elevation of the mountain is 4,960 meters.
Shkhara
Latitude
42.99932° or 42° 59′ 58″ northLongitude
43.11313° or 43° 6′ 47″ eastElevation
5,201 metres (17,064 feet)Open location code
8HJ5X4X7+P7OpenStreetMap ID
node 427961128OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
Discover Shkhara from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Shkhara” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جبل شخارا”
- Armenian: “Շխարա”
- Azerbaijani: “Şhara dağı”
- Azerbaijani: “Şxara dağı”
- Bashkir: “Шхара”
- Basque: “Shkhara”
- Basque: “Xkhara”
- Belarusian: “Гара Шхара”
- Belarusian: “Шхара”
- Bosnian: “Šhara”
- Bulgarian: “Шхара”
- Catalan: “Xkhara”
- Cebuano: “Mta Shkhara”
- Chinese: “什哈拉山”
- Czech: “nejvyšší hora Gruzie”
- Czech: “Šchara”
- Dutch: “Shkhara”
- Dutch: “Sjchara”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل شخارا”
- Estonian: “Šhara”
- Finnish: “Šhara”
- Finnish: “Shkhara”
- Finnish: “Škhara”
- French: “Chkhara”
- French: “Mta Shkhara”
- Georgian: “შხარა”
- German: “Schchara”
- German: “Shkara”
- Greek: “Σχαρά”
- Greek: “Σχάρα”
- Hebrew: “שחארה”
- Hungarian: “Skara (hegycsúcs)”
- Hungarian: “Skara”
- Indonesian: “Shkhara”
- Italian: “Šchara”
- Italian: “Shkhara”
- Japanese: “シュハラ山”
- Korean: “시하라 산”
- Korean: “시하라산”
- Kurdish: “Çiyayê Şiharayê”
- Ladin: “Shkhara”
- Latvian: “Šhara”
- Lezghian: “Шхара”
- Lithuanian: “Šchara”
- Macedonian: “Шхара”
- Mingrelian: “შხარა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mta Shkhara”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sjkhara”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Shkhara”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sjkhara”
- Norwegian: “Sjkhara”
- Ossetian: “Шхарæ”
- Persian: “شخارا”
- Polish: “Shkhara”
- Polish: “Szchara”
- Portuguese: “Chkhara”
- Portuguese: “Monte Chkhara”
- Portuguese: “Monte Shkhara”
- Portuguese: “Monte Xecara”
- Portuguese: “Shkhara”
- Romanian: “Shara”
- Romanian: “Şhara”
- Romanian: “Șhara”
- Russian: “Шхара”
- Scots: “Shkhara”
- Serbian: “Шхара”
- Slovenian: “Šhara”
- Spanish: “Shjara”
- Spanish: “Shkhara”
- Swahili: “Shkhara”
- Swedish: “Schchara”
- Swedish: “Shkhara”
- Swedish: “Sjchara”
- Swedish: “Sjehara”
- Swedish: “Sjschara”
- Turkish: “Şhara”
- Ukrainian: “Шхара”
- Venetian: “Shkhara”
- Vietnamese: “Shkhara”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Koruldashi and Old Shepherd Huts.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Шхара and Shkhara East.
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