Makalu
Makalu is the fifth-highest mountain on Earth, with a summit at an elevation of 8,485 metres AMSL. It is located in the Mahalangur Himalayas 19 km southeast of Mount Everest, on the China–Nepal border.
- Type: Mountain with an elevation of 8,463 metres
- Description: mountain in Nepal/China; 5th highest in the world
- Also known as: “Chomo Lonzo”, “Ma-k’a-lu Feng”, “Ma-k’a-lu Shan”, “Ma-k’o-lu”, “Mǎkǎlǔ Shān”, “Makalut”, “Makaru”, “Monto Makalu”, “Mount Makalu”, “मकाल”, “মকালু”, and “マカルー山”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Kangshungtse.
Makalu
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Makalu, Sankhuwasabha, Koshi Province, Nepal, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
27.88988° or 27° 53′ 24″ north
Longitude
87.08944° or 87° 5′ 22″ east
Elevation
8,463 metres (27,766 feet)
Open location code
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Makalu” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Makalu”
- Arabic: “جبل ماكالو”
- Aragonese: “Makalu”
- Armenian: “Մակալու”
- Asturian: “Makalu”
- Azerbaijani: “Makalu”
- Basque: “Makalu”
- Belarusian: “Макалу”
- Bengali: “মাকালু”
- Bhojpuri: “मकालू”
- Bosnian: “Makalu”
- Breton: “Makalu”
- Bulgarian: “Макалу”
- Catalan: “Makalu”
- Cebuano: “Makālu”
- Chinese: “馬卡魯峰”
- Chinese: “马卡鲁峰”
- Croatian: “Makalu”
- Czech: “makalu”
- Czech: “Makalu”
- Danish: “Makalu”
- Dotyali: “मकालु हिमाल”
- Dutch: “Makalu”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل ماكالو”
- Esperanto: “Makalu”
- Estonian: “Makalu”
- Finnish: “Makalu”
- French: “Makalu”
- Galician: “Makalu”
- Georgian: “მაკალუ”
- German: “Makalu”
- Greek: “Μακαλού”
- Hebrew: “מקלו”
- Hindi: “मकालू”
- Hungarian: “Makalu”
- Icelandic: “Makalu”
- Ido: “Makalu”
- Indonesian: “Makalu”
- Italian: “Makalu”
- Japanese: “マカルー”
- Javanese: “Makalu”
- Kazakh: “Макалу”
- Korean: “마칼루 산”
- Korean: “마칼루”
- Korean: “마칼루산”
- Kurdish: “Makalu”
- Kurdish: “ماکالو”
- Ladin: “Makalu”
- Latin: “Makalu”
- Latvian: “Makalu”
- Lithuanian: “Makalu”
- Low German: “Makalu”
- Macedonian: “Макалу”
- Maithili: “मकालु हिमालय”
- Malay: “Makalu I”
- Malayalam: “മകാലു”
- Marathi: “मकालु”
- Marathi: “मकालू”
- Mazanderani: “ماکالو”
- Mingrelian: “მაკალუ”
- Nepali: “मकालु हिमाल”
- Newari: “मकालु”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Makalu”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Makalu”
- Norwegian: “Makalu”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Makalu”
- Oriya: “ମକାଳୁ”
- Ossetian: “Макалу”
- Persian: “ماکالو”
- Polish: “Makalu”
- Portuguese: “Makalu”
- Romanian: “Makalu”
- Russian: “Макалу”
- Scots: “Makalu”
- Serbian: “Makalu”
- Serbian: “Макалу”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Makalu”
- Slovak: “Makalu”
- Slovenian: “Makalu”
- Spanish: “Makalu”
- Sundanese: “Makalu”
- Swahili: “Makalu”
- Swedish: “Makalu”
- Tajik: “Макалу”
- Tamil: “மக்காலு”
- Thai: “เขามกาลุ”
- Turkish: “Makalu”
- Ukrainian: “Макалу”
- Urdu: “مکلو”
- Uzbek: “Makalu”
- Venetian: “Makalu”
- Vietnamese: “Makalu”
- Welsh: “Makalu”
- Western Panjabi: “مکلو”
- Wu Chinese: “马卡鲁峰”
- Yue Chinese: “馬卡魯峰”
- “nena Makalu”
- “मकालू”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Pari̇̄ Chokarmā and Baruntse.
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