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Kentucky
Harlan

Black Mountain

Black Mountain is the highest mountain peak in the Commonwealth of , , with a summit elevation of 4,145 feet above mean sea level and a top-to-bottom height of over 2,500 feet.
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  • Type: Peak with an elevation of 4,131 feet
  • Description: mountain in Kentucky, United States
  • Also known as: “Big Black Mountain”, “Black Mountain, Appalachian Mountains”, “Black Mountain, Cumberland”, “Black Mountain, North America”, and “Little Black Mountain”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Keokee and Exeter.

Village
is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in , , United States. The population was 416 at the 2010 census.

Hamlet
Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.
is an unincorporated community and coal town located in , , United States.

Locality
is an unincorporated community in , United States. It is part of the census-designated place.

Black Mountain

Latitude
36.91431° or 36° 54′ 52″ north
Longitude
-82.89378° or 82° 53′ 38″ west
Elevation
4,131 feet (1,259 metres)
Open location code
868VW474+PF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 356559713
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
4284707
Wiki­data ID
Q880428
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Satellite Map

Discover Black Mountain from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Black Mountain” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الجبل الأسود”
  • Catalan: “Black Mountain”
  • Cebuano: “Black Mountain (bukid sa Estados Unidos, Kentucky)”
  • Cebuano: “Black Mountain”
  • Chinese: “黑山”
  • Dutch: “Black Mountain”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل بلاك (امريكا)”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل بلاك”
  • French: “Black Mountain”
  • Georgian: “შავი მთა”
  • German: “Black Mountain”
  • Italian: “Black Mountain”
  • Japanese: “ブラックマウンテン (ケンタッキー州)”
  • Japanese: “ブラックマウンテン”
  • Ladin: “Black Mountain (Kentucky)”
  • Ladin: “Black Mountain”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “الجبل لكحل”
  • Portuguese: “Black Mountain”
  • Spanish: “Black Mountain”
  • Swedish: “Black Mountain”
  • Ukrainian: “Блек”
  • Venetian: “Black Mountain”
  • Western Panjabi: “کالا پعاڑ”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Black Mountain”. Photo: iLoveMountains.org, CC BY 2.0.