Caucasus Mountains
The Caucasus Mountains is a mountain range at the intersection of Asia and Europe. Stretching between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, they are surrounded by the Caucasus region and are home to Mount Elbrus, the highest peak in Europe at 5,642 metres above sea level.
Photo: პაატა შ, Public domain.- Type: Mountain range with an elevation of 2,009 metres
- Description: mountain system spanning Eastern Europe and Western Asia
- Also known as: “Bol’shoy Kavkaz”, “Böyük Qafqaz”, “Caucaz”, “El Cáucasu”, “Great Caucasus”, “Greater Caucasus”, “Kavkasioni”, “montañas del caucas”, “serralada del caucas”, “Каўкаскія горы”, “הקווקז”, and “高加索山”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Biso and Khakhmati.
Caucasus Mountains
- Category: landform
- Location: Georgia, Caucasus, Asia
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Latitude
42.49137° or 42° 29′ 29″ north
Longitude
44.99613° or 44° 59′ 46″ east
Elevation
2,009 metres (6,591 feet)
Open location code
8HJ6FXRW+GF
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=mountain_range
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Caucasus Mountains” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kaukasus”
- Albanian: “Kaukazi”
- Arabic: “القوقاز”
- Arabic: “جبال القوقاز”
- Armenian: “Կովկասյան լեռներ”
- Asturian: “Montes d’El Cáucasu”
- Avaric: “Кавказалъул мугӀрул”
- Azerbaijani: “Qafqaz dağları”
- Bashkir: “Кавказ тауҙары”
- Basque: “Kaukaso”
- Bavarian: “Kaukasus”
- Belarusian: “Каўказ”
- Belarusian: “Каўказскія горы”
- Bengali: “ককেশাস পর্বতমালা”
- Bhojpuri: “कॉकेशस परबत”
- Bosnian: “Kavkaske planine”
- Bosnian: “Kavkaz”
- Breton: “Menezioù Kaokaz”
- Bulgarian: “Кавказ”
- Catalan: “Caucas”
- Catalan: “Muntanyes del Caucas”
- Cebuano: “Caucasus Mountains”
- Central Kurdish: “زنجیرەچیاکانی قەوقاز”
- Chechen: “Кавказан лаьмнаш”
- Chinese: “高加索”
- Chinese: “高加索山脉”
- Croatian: “Kavkaz”
- Czech: “Kavkaz”
- Danish: “Kaukasus”
- Dutch: “Kaukasus”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبال القوقاز”
- Esperanto: “Kaŭkazo”
- Esperanto: “Kauxkazo”
- Estonian: “Kaukaasia”
- Estonian: “Kaukasus”
- Faroese: “Kaukasus”
- Finnish: “Kaukasus”
- French: “Caucase”
- French: “Géographie du Caucase”
- Galician: “Cáucaso”
- Galician: “Cordilleira do Cáucaso”
- Georgian: “კავკასია”
- Georgian: “კავკასიონი”
- German: “Kaukasus”
- Greek: “Καύκασος”
- Guarani: “Yvytyrysýi Káukaso”
- Hakka Chinese: “Kavkaz sân-mak”
- Hakka Chinese: “Kô-kâ-sok sân-mak”
- Hebrew: “הרי הקווקז”
- Hindi: “काकेशस पर्वत शृंखला”
- Hindi: “कॉकस पर्वत शृंखला”
- Hungarian: “Kaukázus”
- Icelandic: “Kákasusfjöll”
- Ido: “Kaukazo”
- Ido: “Montaro Kaukazo”
- Indonesian: “Kaukasus”
- Indonesian: “Pegunungan Kaukasus”
- Ingush: “Кавказа лоамаш”
- Interlingua: “Caucaso”
- Interlingue: “Caucás”
- Irish: “Sléibhte Chugais”
- Irish: “Sléibhte Cugais”
- Italian: “Catena del Caucaso”
- Italian: “Caucaso”
- Japanese: “カフカス”
- Japanese: “カフカス山脈”
- Japanese: “コーカサス山脈”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Kavkaz”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Кавказ таула”
- Kashubian: “Kaùkaz”
- Korean: “카프카스 산맥”
- Korean: “캅카스산맥”
- Kurdish: “Çiyayên Qefqazê”
- Ladin: “Caucas”
- Latin: “Caucasus”
- Latvian: “Kaukāza kalni”
- Latvian: “Kaukāzs”
- Lezghian: “Къавкаса сувар”
- Lezghian: “Къавкъаздин сувар”
- Limburgan: “Kaukasus”
- Lithuanian: “Kaukazas”
- Lithuanian: “Kaukazo kalnai”
- Livvi: “Kaukazus”
- Low German: “Kaukasus”
- Lower Sorbian: “Kawkaz”
- Luxembourgish: “Kaukasus”
- Macedonian: “Кавказ”
- Maithili: “ककेसस पर्वत”
- Malay: “Pergunungan Caucasus”
- Malay: “Pergunungan Kaukasus”
- Malayalam: “കോക്കസസ് പർവതം”
- Marathi: “कॉकासस पर्वतरांग”
- Marathi: “कॉकेशस पर्वतरांग”
- Mingrelian: “კავკაციონი”
- Moksha: “Кавказонь панттне”
- Mongolian: “Кавказын нуруу”
- Nepali: “ककेसस पर्वत”
- Nepali: “ककेसस हिमशृङ्खला”
- Northern Sami: “Kaukasusvárit”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kaukasus”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kaukasus”
- Norwegian: “Kaukasus”
- Ossetian: “Кавказы хæхтæ”
- Panjabi: “ਕੋਹ ਕਾਫ਼”
- Panjabi: “ਕੋਹਕਾਫ਼ ਪਰਬਤ”
- Persian: “رشتهکوه قفقاز”
- Polish: “Kaukaz”
- Portuguese: “Cáucaso”
- Portuguese: “Cordilheira do Cáucaso”
- Romanian: “Munții Caucaz”
- Russian: “Кавказ”
- Russian: “Кавказские горы”
- Samogitian: “Kaukazos”
- Scots: “Caucasus Moontains”
- Serbian: “Кавказ”
- Serbian: “Кавкаске планине”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kavkaz”
- Sindhi: “قفقاز”
- Sinhala: “කෝකසස් කඳු”
- Slovenian: “Kavkaz”
- Spanish: “Cáucaso”
- Spanish: “cordillera del Cáucaso”
- Spanish: “Cordillera del Cáucaso”
- Swahili: “Kaukazi”
- Swedish: “Kaukasus”
- Swiss German: “Kaukasus”
- Tagalog: “Bulubundukin ng Caucasus”
- Tagalog: “Bulubundukin ng Kaukasya”
- Tajik: “Кӯҳҳои Қафқоз”
- Tamil: “காக்கசஸ் மலைத்தொடர்”
- Tatar: “Qawqaz”
- Tatar: “Кавказ таулары”
- Telugu: “కాకసస్ పర్వతాలు”
- Thai: “เทือกเขาคอเคซัส”
- Turkish: “Kafkas Dağları”
- Turkish: “Kafkaslar”
- Uighur: “كاۋكاز تاغ تىزمىسى”
- Ukrainian: “Кавказ”
- Ukrainian: “Кавказькі гори”
- Upper Sorbian: “Kawkaz”
- Urdu: “قفقاز پہاڑیاں”
- Urdu: “کوہ قفقاز”
- Uzbek: “Kavkaz togʻlari”
- Venetian: “Caena del Caucaso”
- Venetian: “Càucazo”
- Vietnamese: “Dãy núi Kavkaz”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kabubkiran Caucaso”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kabugkiran Caucaso”
- Welsh: “Mynyddoedd y Cawcasws”
- Western Armenian: “Փոքր Կովկաս”
- Western Frisian: “Kaukasus”
- Western Panjabi: “قفقاز پہاڑیاں”
- Wu Chinese: “高加索山脉”
- Yiddish: “קאווקאז בערג”
- Yiddish: “קאווקאז”
- Yue Chinese: “高加索山脈”
- “कॉकेशस परबत”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Chalisopeli and Ache.
Notable Places Nearby
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