Jannu
Mount Kumbhakarna or Jannu is the 32nd-highest mountain in the world. It is an important western outlier of Kangchenjunga, the world's third-highest peak.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Carsten.nebel, CC BY 3.0.
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 7,711 metres
- Description: mountain of the Himalayas
- Also known as: “Jāno”, “Kumbakarna”, “Kumbhakarna (Jannu)”, “Kumbhakarna Mountain”, “Mount Kumbhakarna”, and “Phoktanglungma”
Jannu
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Phaktanglung, Taplejung, Koshi Province, Nepal, South Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
27.68396° or 27° 41′ 2″ northLongitude
88.044° or 88° 2′ 38″ eastElevation
7,711 metres (25,299 feet)Open location code
7MVCM2MV+HHOpenStreetMap ID
node 3530571951OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Western Panjabi—“Jannu” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Jannu”
- Catalan: “Jannu”
- Cebuano: “Kumbhakarna”
- Chinese: “賈奴峰”
- Czech: “Jannu”
- Dutch: “Jannu”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل چانو”
- Finnish: “Jannu”
- French: “Jannu”
- German: “Jannu”
- German: “Kumbhakarna”
- Hindi: “जन्नु”
- Hindi: “जन्नू”
- Italian: “Jannu”
- Japanese: “クンバカルナ”
- Japanese: “ジャヌー”
- Kannada: “ಜನ್ನು”
- Ladin: “Jannu”
- Nepali: “कुम्भकर्ण हिमाल”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Jannu”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jannu”
- Norwegian: “Jannu”
- Persian: “کوه کمباکارنا”
- Polish: “Jannu”
- Portuguese: “Jannu”
- Russian: “Жанну”
- Russian: “Кумбхакарна (Жанну)”
- Sanskrit: “जन्नु”
- Slovak: “Jannu”
- Spanish: “Jannu”
- Ukrainian: “Жанну”
- Uzbek: “Jannu”
- Venetian: “Jannu”
- Western Panjabi: “جنوں”
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