Musala
Musala; from Arabic through Ottoman Turkish: from Musalla, "near God" or "place for prayer" is the highest peak in the Rila Mountains, as well as in Bulgaria and the entire Balkan Peninsula, standing at 2,925.42 metres.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Preslav, Public domain.
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 2,925 metres
- Description: highest mountain of the Balkans in Bulgaria
- Also known as: “Mussalla”, “Stalin”, “Vrah Stalin”, and “Vŭrkh Musalla”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Basic Environmental Observatory - Musala and Malka Musala.
Basic Environmental Observatory - Musala
Monitoring station
Photo: Спасимир, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Basic Environmental Observatory - Musala is a monitoring station.
Malka Musala
Peak
Malka Musala is a summit in the eastern part of the Rila Mountain in southwestern Bulgaria. With an altitude of 2,902 m, it is the second highest peak in Rila after Musala, fourth in Bulgaria behind Vihren and Kutelo in the Pirin Mountain, and seventh in the Balkan Peninsula.
Irechek
Peak
Photo: Delysia v, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Irechek is a summit in the eastern part of the Rila Mountain in southwestern Bulgaria. Its altitude is 2,852 m, making it the third highest peak in Rila after Musala and Malka Musala.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Borovets.
Borovets
Borovets is a ski and mountain resort in Central Western Bulgaria, on the slopes of the Rila mountain range close to the town of Samokov. It's one of Bulgaria's most popular ski resorts and one of the starting points for hiking to Musala, the highest peak in Rila, Bulgaria and the Balkan Peninsula.
Musala
- Categories: mountain, main peak, two-thousander, highest point, ultra-prominent peak, and landform
- Location: Samokov, Sofia Province, Bulgarian Shopluk, Bulgaria, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
42.17919° or 42° 10′ 45″ northLongitude
23.58528° or 23° 35′ 7″ eastElevation
2,925 metres (9,596 feet)Open location code
8GJ55HHP+M4OpenStreetMap ID
node 274078231OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
Discover Musala from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Albanian to Vietnamese—“Musala” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Musalla”
- Arabic: “قمة مصلى”
- Armenian: “Մուսալա”
- Belarusian: “Мусала”
- Bosnian: “Musala”
- Breton: “Mousala”
- Bulgarian: “Връх Мусала”
- Bulgarian: “Връх Сталин”
- Bulgarian: “Мусала”
- Catalan: “Mussala”
- Cebuano: “Musala”
- Chinese: “穆萨拉峰”
- Chinese: “穆薩拉峰”
- Croatian: “Musala”
- Czech: “Musala”
- Czech: “nejvyšší hora Bulharska”
- Danish: “Musala”
- Dutch: “Moesala”
- Egyptian Arabic: “قمة مصلى”
- Esperanto: “Musala”
- Estonian: “Musala mägi”
- Estonian: “Musala”
- Estonian: “Mussala”
- Estonian: “Stalini mägi”
- Estonian: “TangRa”
- Finnish: “Musala”
- French: “Moussala”
- French: “Musala”
- Galician: “Musala”
- Georgian: “მუსალა”
- German: “Musala”
- German: “Mussala”
- Greek: “Μουσαλά”
- Hebrew: “מוסלה”
- Hungarian: “Muszala”
- Indonesian: “Musala”
- Indonesian: “Puncak Musala”
- Irish: “Musala”
- Italian: “Musala”
- Italian: “Mussala”
- Japanese: “ムサラ山”
- Korean: “무살라산”
- Ladin: “Musala”
- Latvian: “Musala”
- Lithuanian: “Musala”
- Lithuanian: “Musalos kalnas”
- Lombard: “Musala”
- Macedonian: “Мусала”
- Moroccan Arabic: “جبل موصالا”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Musala”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Fjell Musala”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Musala”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Мусала”
- Norwegian: “Musala”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Mussala”
- Persian: “قله مصلی”
- Polish: “Musała”
- Portuguese: “Monte Musala”
- Portuguese: “Musala”
- Romanian: “Musala”
- Russian: “Мусала”
- Scots: “Musala”
- Serbian: “Musala”
- Serbian: “Мусала”
- Slovak: “Musala”
- Slovenian: “Musala”
- Spanish: “Mus Alla”
- Spanish: “Musala”
- Swahili: “Mlima Musala”
- Swedish: “Musala”
- Tajik: “Мусала”
- Telugu: “ముసాలా”
- Turkish: “Musala Dağı”
- Turkish: “Musala”
- Ukrainian: “Мусала”
- Urdu: “مصلیٰ”
- Venetian: “Mussala”
- Vietnamese: “Musala”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". 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 “Musala”. Photo: Preslav, Public domain.