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.
- Mountain rising to 8,463 metres (27,766 feet)
- Description: mountain in Nepal/China; 5th highest in the world
- Also known as“Ma-k’a-lu Feng”“Ma-k’a-lu Shan”“Ma-k’o-lu”“Makalut”“Mount Makalu”
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Makalu
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Latitude
27.88988° or 27° 53′ 24″ north
Longitude
87.08944° or 87° 5′ 22″ east
Open location code
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Makalu” goes by many names.
MakaluAfrikaans
جبل ماكالوArabic
MakaluAragonese
ՄակալուArmenian
MakaluAsturian
MakaluAzerbaijani
MakaluBasque
МакалуBelarusian
मकालBengali
মাকালুBengali
मकालूBhojpuri
MakaluBosnian
MakaluBreton
МакалуBulgarian
MakaluCatalan
MakāluCebuano
馬卡魯峰Chinese
马卡鲁峰Chinese
MakaluCroatian
MakaluCzech
MakaluDanish
मकालु हिमालDotyali
Chomo LonzoDutch
MakaluDutch
جبل ماكالوEgyptian Arabic
MakaluEsperanto
Monto MakaluEsperanto
MakaluEstonian
MakaluFinnish
Mǎkǎlǔ ShānFinnish
MakaruFinnish
MakaluGalician
მაკალუGeorgian
ΜακαλούGreek
מקלוHebrew
मकालूHindi
MakaluHungarian
MakaluIcelandic
MakaluIdo
MakaluIndonesian
MakaluItalian
マカルーJapanese
マカルー山Japanese
MakaluJavanese
МакалуKazakh
마칼루Korean
마칼루 산Korean
MakaluKurdish
ماکالوKurdish
MakaluLadin
MakaluLatin
MakaluLatvian
MakaluLithuanian
MakaluLow German
МакалуMacedonian
मकालु हिमालयMaithili
Makalu IMalay
മകാലുMalayalam
मकालूMarathi
ماکالوMazanderani
მაკალუMingrelian
मकालु हिमालNepali
मकालुNewari
MakaluNorwegian
MakaluNorwegian Bokmål
MakaluNorwegian Nynorsk
MakaluOccitan (post 1500)
ମକାଳୁOriya
МакалуOssetian
ماکالوPersian
MakaluPolish
MakaluRomanian
МакалуRussian
MakaluScots
MakaluSerbian
MakaruSerbian
МакалуSerbian
MakaluSerbo-Croatian
MakaluSlovak
MakaluSlovenian
MakaluSundanese
MakaluSwahili
MakaluSwedish
МакалуTajik
மக்காலுTamil
เขามกาลุThai
MakaluTurkish
МакалуUkrainian
مکلوUrdu
MakaluUzbek
MakaluVenetian
MakaluVietnamese
MakaluWelsh
مکلوWestern Panjabi
马卡鲁峰Wu Chinese
馬卡魯峰Yue Chinese
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“The world is so empty if we think of it only as mountains, rivers, and cities; but to know someone here and there who is in harmony with us… makes this earth an inhabited garden.”
