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Cho Oyu

Cho Oyu is the sixth-highest mountain in the world at 8,188 metres above sea level. Cho Oyu means "Turquoise Goddess" in Tibetan. The mountain is the westernmost major peak of the sub-section of the Mahalangur Himalaya 20 km west of .
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  • Type: Peak with an elevation of 8,188 metres
  • Description: mountain in Nepal/China
  • Also known as: “Cho Uyo”, “Cho-ao-mei”, “Cho-ao-yu”, and “Cho-ao-yu Shan”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tenzing Peak.

Peak
Photo: Hozza42, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the name which has been proposed by the Government of Nepal for a 7,916-metre peak in the in honour of Tenzing Norgay, who made the first ascent of Everest with Edmund Hillary in 1953.

Cho Oyu

Latitude
28.09675° or 28° 5′ 48″ north
Longitude
86.65963° or 86° 39′ 35″ east
Elevation
8,188 metres (26,864 feet)
Open location code
7MW83MW5+MV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 288180659
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
1280210
Wiki­data ID
Q170089
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Cho Oyu” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Cho Oyu”
  • Arabic: “تشو أويو”
  • Aragonese: “Cho Oyu”
  • Asturian: “Cho Oyu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ço-Oyu”
  • Basque: “Cho Oyu”
  • Belarusian: “Гара Чо-Айю”
  • Belarusian: “Чо-Айю”
  • Bengali: “चोयु”
  • Bengali: “চো ওইয়ু”
  • Bengali: “卓奧有山”
  • Bhojpuri: “चोयु”
  • Bosnian: “Cho Oyu”
  • Breton: “Cho-Oyu”
  • Bulgarian: “Чо Ою”
  • Catalan: “Cho Oyu”
  • Cebuano: “Cho Oyu”
  • Chinese: “Zhuó’àoyǒu Fēng”
  • Chinese: “乔乌雅峰”
  • Chinese: “卓奥友峰”
  • Chinese: “卓奧友峰”
  • Croatian: “Cho Oyu”
  • Czech: “Cho Oju”
  • Czech: “Čho Oju”
  • Czech: “Cho Oyu”
  • Czech: “Cho-Oyu”
  • Czech: “Čo Oju”
  • Czech: “Čo-Oju”
  • Czech: “Qowowuyag”
  • Danish: “Cho Oyu”
  • Dotyali: “चोयु हिमाल”
  • Dutch: “Cho Oyu”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل تشو اويو”
  • Esperanto: “Ĉo Oju”
  • Estonian: “Cho Oyu”
  • Finnish: “Cho Oyo”
  • Finnish: “Cho Oyu”
  • Finnish: “Mount Zhuoaoyou”
  • French: “Cho Oyu”
  • Galician: “Cho Oiu”
  • Galician: “Cho Oyu”
  • Georgian: “ჩო-ოიუ”
  • Georgian: “ჩო-ოიუი”
  • German: “Cho Oyu”
  • Greek: “Τσο Ογιού”
  • Hindi: “चो गर्म पानी”
  • Hindi: “चोयु”
  • Hungarian: “Cso-Oju”
  • Icelandic: “Cho Oyu”
  • Ido: “Cho Oyu”
  • Indonesian: “Cho Oyu”
  • Italian: “Cho Oyu”
  • Japanese: “チョ・オユー”
  • Japanese: “チョー・オユー”
  • Japanese: “チョーオユー”
  • Japanese: “チョオユー”
  • Javanese: “Cho Oyu”
  • Kannada: “ಚೊ ಒಯು”
  • Kazakh: “Чо-Ойю”
  • Korean: “초오유 산”
  • Korean: “초오유”
  • Korean: “초오유산”
  • Kurdish: “Cho Oyu”
  • Kurdish: “جهۆئۆ یو”
  • Ladin: “Cho Oyu”
  • Latvian: “Čooju”
  • Lithuanian: “Čo Oju”
  • Macedonian: “Чо Оју”
  • Maithili: “चोयु हिमालय”
  • Malay: “Cho Oyu”
  • Marathi: “चो ओयु”
  • Marathi: “चो ओयू”
  • Mingrelian: “ჩო-ოი”
  • Mingrelian: “ჩო-ოიუ”
  • Mingrelian: “ჩო-ოიუი”
  • Mingrelian: “ჩოოიუ”
  • Nepali: “चो यु”
  • Nepali: “चो-यू”
  • Nepali: “चोयु हिमाल”
  • Nepali: “चोयु”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cho Oyo”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cho Oyu”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cho Oyu”
  • Norwegian: “Cho Oyu”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Cho Oyu”
  • Oriya: “ଚୋ ଓୟୁ”
  • Oriya: “ଚୋୟୁ”
  • Ossetian: “Чо-Ойю”
  • Persian: “چو اویو”
  • Persian: “چو ایو”
  • Persian: “چوآیو”
  • Polish: “Cho Oyu”
  • Polish: “Czo Oju”
  • Portuguese: “Cho oyo”
  • Portuguese: “Cho Oyu”
  • Portuguese: “Cho-Oyu”
  • Romanian: “Cho Oyu”
  • Russian: “Cho Oyu”
  • Russian: “Чо Ой”
  • Russian: “Чо Ойю”
  • Russian: “Чо Ою”
  • Russian: “Чо-Ойю”
  • Russian: “Чо-Ою”
  • Russian: “Чоойю”
  • Sanskrit: “चो ओयु:”
  • Scots: “Cho Oyu”
  • Serbian: “Чо оју”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cho Oyu”
  • Slovak: “Čho Oju”
  • Slovenian: “Čo Oju”
  • Slovenian: “tretja najvišja gora na svetu”
  • Spanish: “Cho Oyo”
  • Spanish: “Cho Oyu”
  • Spanish: “Cho-Oyu”
  • Swahili: “Cho Oyu”
  • Swedish: “Cho Oyo”
  • Swedish: “Cho Oyu”
  • Swedish: “Mount Zhuoaoyou”
  • Tagalog: “Cho Oyu”
  • Tagalog: “Zhuo ao you”
  • Tagalog: “Zhuoaoyou”
  • Tamil: “சோ ஓயு மலை”
  • Tamil: “சோ ஓயு”
  • Tibetan: “ཇོ་བོ་དབུ་ཡ”
  • Turkish: “Cho Oyu Dağı”
  • Turkish: “Cho Oyu”
  • Turkish: “Ço Oyu”
  • Ukrainian: “Чо-Ойю”
  • Urdu: “چو اویو”
  • Uzbek: “Cho Oyu”
  • Venetian: “Cho Oyu”
  • Vietnamese: “Cho Oyu”
  • Welsh: “Cho Oyu”
  • Western Panjabi: “چو اویو”
  • Wu Chinese: “卓奥友峰”
  • “चोयु”

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