Kanchenjunga
Kangchenjunga is the world's third-highest mountain at 8,586 m. It straddles the border of India and Nepal and can be visited from either side: Other than these, the mountain is famously visible from North Bengal in India, particularly Darjeeling.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Mountain with an elevation of 8,586 metres
- Description: third highest mountain in the world, in Nepal and India
- Also known as: “Chin-ch’eng”, “Gangchhendzönga”, “Kañcanjaṅghā”, “Kanchanjanga”, “Kangchendzonga”, “Kangchenjunga”, “Khanchenjwenga”, “Kinchinjinga”, and “Kunchinjunga”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Yalung Kang and Kangchenjunga Central.
Yalung Kang
Peak
Photo: Carsten.nebel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Yalung Kang is a 8,505 m high minor summit of the Kangchenjunga massif found in the Himalayan range. The peak lies 1.16 km west of Kanchenjunga's main summit in Taplejung, Nepal.
Kanchenjunga
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Phaktanglung, Taplejung, Koshi Province, Nepal, South Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Kanchenjunga” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kangchenjunga”
- Angika: “कंचनजंघा”
- Arabic: “كانغشينجونغا”
- Aragonese: “Kangchenjunga”
- Armenian: “Կանչենջանգա”
- Assamese: “কাঞ্চনজংঘা”
- Asturian: “Kangchenjunga”
- Azerbaijani: “Kançencanqa”
- Azerbaijani: “Kançencaqra”
- Basque: “Kanchenjunga”
- Basque: “Kangchenjunga”
- Belarusian: “Канчэнджанга”
- Bengali: “কঞ্চনজঙ্ঘা”
- Bengali: “কাঞ্চনজঙ্ঘা”
- Bhojpuri: “कंचन जंघा”
- Bhojpuri: “कंचनजंगा”
- Bhojpuri: “कंचनजंघा”
- Bosnian: “Kangchenjunga”
- Breton: “Kangchenjunga”
- Bulgarian: “Кангчендзьонга”
- Bulgarian: “Канченджанга”
- Catalan: “Kanchajanga”
- Catalan: “Kanchajunga”
- Catalan: “Kanchenjunga”
- Catalan: “Kangchenjunga”
- Catalan: “Kinchijunga”
- Catalan: “Kinchinjunga”
- Cebuano: “Kānchenjunga”
- Chinese: “干城章嘉峰”
- Chinese: “金城章嘉峰”
- Cornish: “Kangchenjunga”
- Croatian: “Kangchenjunga”
- Czech: “Káčaňdžunga”
- Czech: “Kančendžanga”
- Czech: “Kančendženga”
- Czech: “Kančendžonga”
- Czech: “Kančenjunga”
- Czech: “Kanchenjunga”
- Czech: “Khangčhendzonga”
- Czech: “Khangčhendzönga”
- Danish: “Kanchenjunga”
- Danish: “Kangchenjunga”
- Danish: “Khangchendzonga”
- Dotyali: “कञ्चनजंघा हिमाल”
- Dutch: “Kanchenjunga”
- Dutch: “Kangchenjunga”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل كانجشينجونجا”
- Esperanto: “Kangchenjunga”
- Estonian: “Kanchenjunga”
- Estonian: “Kangchenjunga”
- Fiji Hindi: “Kangchenjunga”
- Finnish: “Kachendzonga”
- Finnish: “Kanchenjanga”
- Finnish: “Kanchenjunga”
- Finnish: “Kangchanfanga”
- Finnish: “Kangchen Dzö-nga”
- Finnish: “Kangchenjunga”
- Finnish: “Khangchendzonga”
- French: “Kanchenjunga”
- French: “Kangchendzönga”
- French: “Kangchenjunga”
- Galician: “Kanchenjunga”
- Georgian: “კანჩენჯანგა”
- German: “Kañcanjaṅghā”
- German: “Kanchenjunga”
- German: “Kangchendzönda”
- German: “Kangchendzonga”
- German: “Kangchendzönga”
- German: “Kangchenjunga”
- Greek: “Κανγκτσενγιούνγκα”
- Guarani: “Kãchẽjunga”
- Guarani: “Kanchenjunga”
- Gujarati: “કંચનજંઘા”
- Gujarati: “કાંચનજંઘા”
- Hebrew: “הר הקאנצ’נג’ונגה”
- Hebrew: “קנצ’נג’נגה”
- Hindi: “कंचनजंगा”
- Hindi: “कंचनजंघा”
- Hindi: “कञ्चञ्जङ्गा”
- Hungarian: “Kancsendzönga”
- Icelandic: “Kanchenjunga”
- Ido: “Kangchenjunga”
- Indonesian: “Kanchanjunga”
- Indonesian: “Kangchanjunga”
- Indonesian: “Kangchenjunga”
- Italian: “Kanchenjonga”
- Italian: “Kanchenjunga”
- Italian: “Kangchenjunga”
- Italian: “Katchenjunga”
- Japanese: “カンチェンジュンガ”
- Javanese: “Kangchenjunga”
- Kannada: “ಕಾಂಚನಜುಂಗಾ”
- Kazakh: “Канченджанга”
- Korean: “얄룽캉”
- Korean: “칸첸중가 산”
- Korean: “칸첸중가”
- Korean: “칸첸중가산”
- Korean: “캉첸중가”
- Kurdish: “Kanchenjunga”
- Ladin: “Kanchenjunga”
- Latin: “Kangcheniunga”
- Latvian: “Kančendžanga”
- Lithuanian: “Kančendžanga”
- Lithuanian: “Kangčenjunga”
- Macedonian: “Кангченѕунга”
- Maithili: “कञ्चनजङ्घा पर्वत”
- Malay: “Kangchengjunga”
- Malay: “Kangchenjunga”
- Malayalam: “കാഞ്ചൻജംഗ കൊടുമുടി”
- Marathi: “कंचनजंगा”
- Marathi: “कंचनजंघा”
- Marathi: “कञ्चनजंघा”
- Marathi: “कांचनगंगा”
- Mingrelian: “კანჩენჯანგა”
- Nepali: “कंचनजंगा”
- Nepali: “कंचनजंघा”
- Nepali: “कञ्चनजङ्घा हिमाल”
- Nepali: “कञ्चनजङ्घा”
- Northern Frisian: “Kangchendzönga”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kanchenjunga”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kangchenjunga”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kachendzonga”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kanchenjanga”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kanchenjunga”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kangchanfanga”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kangchen Dzö-nga”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kangchenjunga”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kantjendjunga”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kantsjendjunga”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Khangchendzonga”
- Norwegian: “Kanchenjunga”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Kanchenjunga”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Kangchenjunga”
- Oriya: “କଞ୍ଚନଜଙ୍ଗା”
- Oriya: “କାଞ୍ଚନଜଙ୍ଘା”
- Panjabi: “ਕੰਚਨਜੰਗਾ”
- Persian: “کانگچنجونگا”
- Persian: “کنجچنجنگا”
- Polish: “K’angcz’endzönga”
- Polish: “Kanczendzanga”
- Polish: “Kanczendzonga”
- Polish: “Kangczendzonga”
- Portuguese: “Kanchenjunga”
- Portuguese: “Kangchenjunga”
- Romanian: “Kangchenjunga”
- Russian: “Канченджанга”
- Russian: “Канченджунга”
- Russian: “Канчинджунга”
- Sanskrit: “काञ्चनजुङ्गा”
- Santali: “ᱠᱟᱱᱪᱚᱱᱡᱟᱝᱜᱷᱟ”
- Scots: “Kangchenjunga”
- Serbian: “Канченџунга”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kangchenjunga”
- Slovak: “Káčaňdžunga”
- Slovak: “Kančendžonga”
- Slovenian: “Kandženzenga”
- Slovenian: “Kangčendzenga”
- Spanish: “Ka nchenjunga”
- Spanish: “Ka-nchenjunga”
- Spanish: “Kanchenjanga”
- Spanish: “Kanchenjonga”
- Spanish: “Kanchenjunga”
- Spanish: “Kānchenjunga”
- Spanish: “Kangchenjunga”
- Sundanese: “Kangchenjunga”
- Swahili: “Kangchenjunga”
- Swedish: “Kachendzonga”
- Swedish: “Kanchenaganga”
- Swedish: “Kanchenjunga”
- Swedish: “Kangchanfanga”
- Swedish: “Kangchen Dzö-nga”
- Swedish: “Kangchenjunga”
- Swedish: “Khangchendzonga”
- Tamil: “கஞ்சஞ்சங்கா மலை”
- Tamil: “கஞ்சஞ்சங்கா”
- Tamil: “கஞ்சன்சங்கா மலை”
- Tamil: “கஞ்சன்சங்கா”
- Tamil: “கஞ்சன்சுங்கா மலை”
- Tamil: “கஞ்சன்ஜங்கா”
- Telugu: “కాంచెన్జంగా”
- Thai: “Kanchenjunga”
- Thai: “Kangchenjunga”
- Thai: “ยอดเขากังชันจุงก้า”
- Thai: “ยอดเขากันเจนชุงคา”
- Thai: “ยอดเขาคังเช็นเจองา”
- Tibetan: “གངས་ཆེན་མཛོད་ལྔ་”
- Turkish: “Kançencunga Dağı”
- Turkish: “Kançencunga”
- Turkish: “Kanchenjunga”
- Turkish: “Kangchenjunga”
- Ukrainian: “Канченджанга”
- Ukrainian: “Канченджанґа”
- Urdu: “Kangchenjunga”
- Urdu: “کنگچنجنگا”
- Venetian: “Kangchenjunga”
- Vietnamese: “Kanchenjunga”
- Vietnamese: “Kangchenjunga”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kangchenjunga”
- Welsh: “Kanchenjunga”
- Welsh: “Kangchendzonga”
- Welsh: “Kangchenjunga”
- Western Panjabi: “کنچنجنگا”
- Western Panjabi: “کنگچنجنگا”
- Wu Chinese: “干城章嘉峰”
- Yue Chinese: “干城章嘉峰”
- “कंचनजंघा”
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Notable Places Nearby
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Kanchenjunga”. Photo: Madhumitaworld, CC BY-SA 4.0.