Mount Olympus
Mount Olympus is an extensive massif near the Thermaic Gulf of the Aegean Sea, in Greece, located on the border between Thessaly and Macedonia, between the regional units of Larissa and Pieria, about 80 km southwest from Thessaloniki.- Type: Mountain range with an elevation of 2,917 metres
- Description: mountain in Elassona municipality, Greece
- Also known as: “Ano Olymbos”, “Cume Mitikas”, “Đỉnh Olympia”, “Đỉnh Olympus”, “L’Olympe”, “Mali Olimp”, “Menez Olimpos”, “Mont Olimp”, “Núi Olympus”, “Olimbos”, “Olímbos”, “Olimp tog‘i”, “Olimp Tog‘i”, “Olimp tog’i”, “Olimp Tog’i”, “Olimp tog`i”, “Olimp Tog`i”, “Olimp Togʻi”, “Olimpiya Dağı”, “Olímpo”, “Olimps”, “Olinpo mendia”, “Olymbos”, “Olýmbos”, “Olympe”, “Olympia”, “Olýmpos”, “Olympos-vuori”, “Olymposvuori”, “Olympus Mons”, “Óros Ólimbos”, “Oros Olympos”, “Óros Ólympos”, “Park Narodowy Olimpu”, “Park Narodowy Olympus”, “Parque nacional del Olimpo”, “Όρος Όλυμπος”, “Пантеон”, “планина Олимп”, “הר האולימפוס”, “أوليمبس”, “اوليمبوس”, “جبال أوليمبوس”, “جبل أولمبوس”, “جبل أوليمبيا”, “جبل الأوليمب”, “جبل الاوليمب”, “جبل اوليمبوس”, “کوه المپ”, “ऑलिम्पस पर्वत”, “माउंट ऑलिम्पस”, “ภูเขาโอลิมปัส”, “ยอดเขาโอลิมปัส”, “โอลิมปัส”, “올륌포스”, “올륌포스 산”, “올림포스”, “올림푸스 산”, “オリュンポス”, “オリュンポス山”, “オリンポス山 (ギリシャ)”, and “奥林帕斯山”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Olympos National Park and Mytikas.
Chapel of the Prophet Elias, Mount Olympus
Church
Near the summits of Mount Olympus lies the chapel of the Prophet Elias.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kokkinopilos.
Mount Olympus
- Categories: mountain, national park, biosphere reserve, Natura 2000 site, and landform
- Location: Dio-Olympos, Pieria, Central Macedonia, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
40.08631° or 40° 5′ 11″ north
Longitude
22.35857° or 22° 21′ 31″ east
Elevation
2,917 metres (9,570 feet)
Open location code
8GG439P5+GC
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=mountain_range
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Mount Olympus” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Olimpus”
- Albanian: “Mali i Olimpit”
- Albanian: “Olimpi”
- Albanian: “Olymp”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ὄλυμπος”
- Arabic: “جبل أوليمبوس”
- Armenian: “Օլիմպոս”
- Asturian: “Monte Olimpu”
- Azerbaijani: “Keşiş dağı”
- Bashkir: “Олимп”
- Basque: “Olinpo”
- Belarusian: “Алімп”
- Bengali: “অলিম্পাস পর্বত”
- Bosnian: “Olimp”
- Breton: “Olimp”
- Breton: “Olimpos”
- Bulgarian: “Олимп”
- Burmese: “အိုလံပတ်တောင် (ဂရိ)”
- Burmese: “အိုလံပတ်တောင်”
- Catalan: “Olimp”
- Cebuano: “Mount Olympus”
- Central Bikol: “Bukid Olympus”
- Chinese: “奥林匹斯”
- Chinese: “奥林匹斯山”
- Chinese: “奧林帕斯山”
- Croatian: “Olimp”
- Czech: “Olymp”
- Danish: “Olympen”
- Dutch: “Olympus”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل اوليبموس”
- Esperanto: “Olimpo”
- Estonian: “Olümpos”
- Finnish: “Olympos”
- Finnish: “Ólympos”
- French: “mont Olympe”
- French: “Mont Olympe”
- Galician: “Monte Olimpo, Grecia”
- Galician: “Monte Olimpo”
- Georgian: “ოლიმპი”
- Georgian: “ოლიმპო”
- German: “Berg Olymp”
- German: “Olymp”
- Greek: “Όλυμπος”
- Hebrew: “אולימפוס”
- Hindi: “माउंट ओलिंपस”
- Hungarian: “Olümposz”
- Icelandic: “Ólympsfjall”
- Icelandic: “Ólympusfjall (Grikklandi)”
- Ido: “Monto Olimpo”
- Indonesian: “Gunung Olimpus”
- Irish: “Sliabh Oilimpeas”
- Italian: “Olimpo”
- Japanese: “オリンポス山”
- Javanese: “Gunung Olimpus”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Olimp”
- Kashmiri: “اولمپس پہاڑ”
- Kazakh: “Олимп”
- Korean: “올림포스산”
- Korean: “올림포스의 12신”
- Kurdish: “çiyayê Olîmpê”
- Kurdish: “Çiyayê Olîmpê”
- Ladin: “Mont Olympus”
- Lak: “Олимп”
- Latin: “Olympus mons”
- Latin: “Olympus”
- Latvian: “Olimpa kalns”
- Lithuanian: “Olimpas”
- Lithuanian: “Olimpo kalnas”
- Lombard: “Olimp”
- Luxembourgish: “Olymp”
- Macedonian: “Олимп”
- Malagasy: “Tendrombohitra Olimpa”
- Malagasy: “Tendrombohitra Ôlimpôsy”
- Malay: “Gunung Olympus”
- Malayalam: “മൗണ്ട് ഒളിമ്പസ്”
- Manipuri: “ꯑꯣꯂꯤꯝꯄꯁ”
- Marathi: “ऑलिंपस पर्वत”
- Marathi: “माउंट ऑलिंपस”
- Nepali: “ओलम्पिया”
- Northern Frisian: “Olymp”
- Northern Sami: “Olympos”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ólymbos”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ólymbos”
- Norwegian: “Olympos”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Olimp”
- Persian: “المپ”
- Polish: “Góra Olimp”
- Polish: “Olimp”
- Portuguese: “Monte Olimpo”
- Pushto: “اولمپس غر”
- Romanian: “Muntele Olimp”
- Romanian: “Olimp”
- Russian: “Олимп”
- Sardinian: “Olimpu”
- Scots: “Mount Olympus”
- Serbian: “Олимп”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Olimp”
- Sindhi: “اولمپس جبل”
- Sinhala: “ඔලිම්පස් කන්ද”
- Slovak: “Olymp”
- Slovenian: “Olimp”
- South Azerbaijani: “اولمپ داغی”
- Spanish: “Monte Olimpo”
- Spanish: “Olimpo”
- Swahili: “Mlima Olimpos”
- Swedish: “Olympen”
- Swedish: “Olympos”
- Tagalog: “Bundok Olimpo”
- Tagalog: “Bundok Olympus”
- Tajik: “Олимп”
- Tamil: “ஒலிம்பசு மலை”
- Tatar: “Олимп”
- Telugu: “ఒలింపయనులు”
- Thai: “เขาโอลิมปัส”
- Turkish: “Olimpos Dağı”
- Turkish: “Olimpos”
- Ukrainian: “Олімп”
- Urdu: “کوہ اولمپس”
- Uzbek: “Olimp togʻi”
- Venetian: “Olimpo”
- Vietnamese: “Núi Ólympos”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bukid Olympus”
- Welsh: “Mynydd Olympos”
- Western Armenian: “Ողիմպոս”
- Western Panjabi: “اولمپس پعاڑ”
- Western Panjabi: “اولمپس پہاڑ”
- Wu Chinese: “奥林波斯山”
- Yue Chinese: “奧林匹斯山”
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