Kebnekaise
Kebnekaise is the tallest mountain in Sweden, at 2,093 metres above sea level. It is in Kiruna Municipality in Norrbotten County. Nikkaluokta is the only settlement in the Kebnekaise area, at the border of the Gällivare and Kiruna municipalities.Photo: Mg-k, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Carl Månsson, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 2,097 metres
- Description: Sweden’s highest mountain
- Also known as: “Kebnekaise nordtoppen”
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Storglaciären and Björlings glaciär.
Storglaciären
Glacier
Storglaciären is a glacier in Tarfala Valley in the Scandinavian Mountains of Kiruna Municipality, Sweden. The glacier is classified as polythermal having both cold and warm bottom temperatures.
Kebnekaise
- Categories: massif, mountain, highest point, and landform
- Location: Kiruna Municipality, Norrbotten County, Norrland, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
67.9049° or 67° 54′ 18″ northLongitude
18.5287° or 18° 31′ 43″ eastElevation
2,097 metres (6,880 feet)Open location code
9FVWWG3H+XFOpenStreetMap ID
node 510337358OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
Discover Kebnekaise from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Kebnekaise” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كيبنيكايس”
- Armenian: “Կեբնեկայսե”
- Basque: “Kebnekaise”
- Belarusian: “Кебнекайсэ”
- Belarusian: “Кебнэкайсэ”
- Breton: “Kebnekaise”
- Bulgarian: “Кебнекайзе”
- Bulgarian: “Кебнекайсе”
- Catalan: “Kebnekaise”
- Cebuano: “Kebnekaise Sydtopp”
- Chinese: “凯布讷山”
- Chinese: “凱布訥山”
- Chinese: “凱布訥峰”
- Croatian: “Kebnekaise”
- Czech: “Kebnekaise”
- Czech: “Kebnekajse”
- Czech: “nejvyšší hora Švédska”
- Danish: “Giebmegáisi”
- Danish: “Giebnegáisi”
- Danish: “Kebnekaise”
- Dutch: “Kebnekaise”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل كيبنيكايس”
- Esperanto: “Giebmegáisi”
- Esperanto: “Giebnegáisi”
- Esperanto: “Kebnekaise”
- Estonian: “Kebnekaise”
- Finnish: “Kebnekaise”
- Finnish: “Kebnekajse”
- French: “Kebnekaise”
- French: “Mont Kebnekaise”
- Galician: “Kebnekaise”
- Georgian: “კებნეკაისე”
- German: “Kebnekaise”
- German: “Kebnekajse”
- Hebrew: “קבנקאיסה”
- Hebrew: “קבנקייסה”
- Hungarian: “Kebnekaise”
- Icelandic: “Kebnekaise”
- Interlingue: “Kebnekaise”
- Italian: “Kebnekaise”
- Japanese: “ケブネカイセ”
- Korean: “케브네카이세산”
- Ladin: “Kebnekaise”
- Latin: “Kebnekaise”
- Latvian: “Kebnekaise”
- Lithuanian: “Kebnekaisė”
- Lombard: “Kebnekaise”
- Macedonian: “Кебнекајсе”
- Maori: “Kebnekaise”
- Northern Sami: “Giebmegáisi”
- Northern Sami: “Giebnegáisi”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Giebmegáisi”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Giebnegáisi”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kebnekaise”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kebnekaisemassivet”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kebnekajse”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kebnekaise”
- Norwegian: “Kebnekaise”
- Persian: “کبنهکایزه”
- Polish: “Kebnekaise”
- Portuguese: “Kebnekaise”
- Romanian: “Kebnekaise”
- Russian: “Кебнекайсе”
- Scots: “Kebnekaise”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kebnekaise”
- Slovak: “Kebnekaise”
- Slovenian: “Kebnekaise”
- Slovenian: “Kebnekajse”
- Spanish: “Kebnekaise”
- Swahili: “Kebnekaise”
- Swedish: “Kebenekaise”
- Swedish: “Kebenekajse”
- Swedish: “Kebnekaise”
- Swedish: “Kebnepakte”
- Swedish: “Kebnetjåkka”
- Turkish: “Kebnekaise Dağları”
- Ukrainian: “Кебнекайсе”
- Uzbek: “Kebnekayse”
- Venetian: “Kebnekaise”
- Vietnamese: “Kebnekaise”
- Western Frisian: “Kebnekaise”
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