Mount Kailash

Mount Kailash is a very sacred mountain in the of , . It's height is 6,638 m and is near the source of the four rivers Indus, Sutlej, Brahmaputra and Karnali. It is sacred to adherents of the Hindu, Buddhist, Jain and Bon traditions.
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  • Type: Peak with an elevation of 6,714 metres
  • Description: mountain in Tibet, China
  • Also known as: “Gang Rinpoche”, “Gang Rinpočhe”, “Gang Tise”, “Gangrin pochhe”, “Gangs rin po che”, “Kailas”, “Kailáš”, “Kailâs”, “Kailās”, “Kailas-vuori”, “Kailaśa”, “Kailaša”, “Kailāsa”, “Kailāśā”, “Kailāšā”, “Kailasas”, “Kailasberget”, “Kailasch”, “Kailásh”, “Kailâsh”, “Kailāsh”, “Kailash Mansarovar”, “Kailasvuori”, “Kang Rinpoche”, “Kang-jen-po-ch’i Feng”, “Kang-la-ssu Shan”, “Kang-rinpoche”, “Kangrinboqe”, “Kangrinboqe Feng”, “Monte Kailas”, “Monte Kailás”, “Monte Kailās”, “Monte Kailasa”, “Monto Kailaŝ”, “Mount Kailas”, “Mynydd Kailash”, “Tise”, “Кайласа”, “Кайлаша”, “Кайлос”, “کایلاش”, “کوهٔ کایلاش”, “कैलाश पर्बत”, “कैलास”, “माउंट कैलाश”, “माउंट कैलास”, “કૈલાસ”, “கைலை மலை”, “కైలాసం”, “కైలాసము”, “మౌంట్ కైలాష్”, “കൈലാസ പർവ്വതം”, “കൈലാസപർവ്വതം”, “ภูเขาไกรลาส”, “ยอดเขาไกรลาส”, “གངས་ཏི་སེ”, “གངས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ”, “གངས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ 冈仁波齐峰”, “གངས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་”, “ཏི་སེ”, “カイラーサ”, “カイラス”, “カン・リンポチェ”, “タルチェン”, “ドルマ・ラ”, “冈仁波钦”, “冈仁波齐”, “冈仁波齐山”, “吉罗娑山”, “吉羅娑山”, “岗仁波钦神山”, “岡仁波斉峰”, “岡仁波欽”, “岡仁波齊”, “岡仁波齊山”, and “崗仁波欽神山”
Photo: Jmhullot, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Mount Kailash

Latitude
31.06784° or 31° 4′ 4″ north
Longitude
81.31193° or 81° 18′ 43″ east
Elevation
6,714 metres (22,028 feet)
Open location code
8M333896+4Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 250954728
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
1280882
Wiki­data ID
Q229107
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Mount Kailash” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kailash”
  • Albanian: “Mali Kailash”
  • Arabic: “جبل كايلاش”
  • Arabic: “جبل كيلاش”
  • Armenian: “Կայլաս”
  • Assamese: “কৈলাশ পৰ্বত”
  • Awadhi: “कैलाश पर्वत”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kailaş dağı”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kaylaş dağı”
  • Basque: “Kailash”
  • Belarusian: “Кайлас”
  • Bengali: “কৈলাশ পর্বত”
  • Bengali: “কৈলাস পর্বত”
  • Bhojpuri: “कैलास परबत”
  • Bulgarian: “Кайлаш”
  • Catalan: “Kailash”
  • Cebuano: “Kangrinboqê Feng”
  • Central Bikol: “Bukid Kailash”
  • Chinese: “Gāngrénbōqí Fēng”
  • Chinese: “冈仁波齐峰”
  • Chinese: “岡仁波齊峰”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Kaylaş”
  • Croatian: “Kailas”
  • Croatian: “Kailash”
  • Czech: “Kailás”
  • Danish: “Kailasbjerget”
  • Dutch: “Kailash”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل كايلاش”
  • Esperanto: “Kailash”
  • Esperanto: “Kajlaŝo”
  • Estonian: “Kangrinboqê”
  • Finnish: “Kailas”
  • French: “mont Kailash”
  • French: “Mont Kailash”
  • Georgian: “კაილასი”
  • German: “Kailash”
  • Greek: “Καϊλάς”
  • Greek: “Καΐλας”
  • Gujarati: “કૈલાસ પર્વત”
  • Hausa: “Dutsen Kailash”
  • Hebrew: “הר קאילאש”
  • Hebrew: “טרק סובב הר קאילאש”
  • Hindi: “कैलाश पर्वत”
  • Hindi: “कैलास पर्वत”
  • Hungarian: “Kajlás-hegy”
  • Icelandic: “Kailash”
  • Indonesian: “Gunung Kailash”
  • Italian: “Kailash”
  • Japanese: “カイラス山”
  • Javanese: “Kailash”
  • Kannada: “ಕೈಲಾಸ ಪರ್ವತ”
  • Kannada: “ಕೈಲಾಸ”
  • Kannada: “ಕೈಲಾಸಪರ್ವತ”
  • Kashmiri: “کیلاش پہاڑ”
  • Khmer: “ភ្នំកៃលាស”
  • Korean: “카일라스산”
  • Ladin: “Mont Kailash”
  • Latvian: “Kailašs”
  • Lithuanian: “Kailašas”
  • Maithili: “कैलाश पर्वत”
  • Malay: “Gunung Kailash”
  • Malayalam: “കൈലാസം”
  • Marathi: “कैलास पर्वत”
  • Mongolian: “Кайлаш уул”
  • Nepali: “कैलाश पर्वत”
  • Nepali: “कैलास पर्वत”
  • Newari: “कैलाश”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kailasha”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kailasafjelllet”
  • Norwegian: “Kailasha”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kailash”
  • Oriya: “କୈଳାସ ପର୍ବତ”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੈਲਾਸ਼ ਪਰਬਤ”
  • Persian: “کوه کایلاش”
  • Persian: “کوه کیلاش”
  • Polish: “Kajlas”
  • Portuguese: “Monte Kailash”
  • Romanian: “Muntele Kailash”
  • Russian: “Кайлас”
  • Silesian: “Kailash”
  • Sindhi: “ڪيلاش جبل”
  • Slovenian: “Kailaš”
  • Spanish: “Kailash”
  • Spanish: “Monte Kailash”
  • Spanish: “Monte Kailāsh”
  • Swahili: “Kailash”
  • Swedish: “Kailasa”
  • Swedish: “Kailash”
  • Tamil: “கயிலை மலை”
  • Tatar: “Кайлаш тавы”
  • Telugu: “కైలాస పర్వతం”
  • Thai: “เขาไกรลาส”
  • Tibetan: “གངས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།”
  • Tulu: “ಕೈಲಾಸ ಪರ್ವತ”
  • Turkish: “Kailaş Dağı”
  • Ukrainian: “Кайлас”
  • Urdu: “کیلاش”
  • Uzbek: “Kaylas”
  • Venetian: “Kailash”
  • Vietnamese: “Núi Kailash”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bukid Kailash”
  • Welsh: “Kailash”
  • Western Panjabi: “کیلاش پہاڑ”
  • Western Panjabi: “کیلاش”
  • Wu Chinese: “冈仁波齐峰”
  • “nena Kanlinpose”
  • “कैलास परबत”

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