Black Mountains
The Black Mountains are a mountain range in western North Carolina, in the southeastern United States. They are part of the Blue Ridge Province of the Southern Appalachian Mountains.
Photo: Ken Thomas, Public domain.Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Mitchell and Mount Craig.
Mount Mitchell
Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Mount Craig
Peak
Mount Craig, 6,647 feet, is the second highest peak of the Appalachian Mountains and second only to 6,684 feet Mount Mitchell in eastern mainland North America.
Black Mountains
- Type: Ridge with an elevation of 6,444 feet
- Description: mountain range in western North Carolina, United States
- Categories: mountain range and landform
- Location: Yancey, North Carolina, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.79373° or 35° 47′ 37″ north
Longitude
-82.25651° or 82° 15′ 23″ west
Elevation
6,444 feet (1,964 metres)
Open location code
867VQPVV+F9
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Black Mountains” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Black Mountains”
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- Esperanto: “Black Mountains”
- Estonian: “Black Mountains”
- Finnish: “Black Mountains (Pohjois-Carolina)”
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- Ido: “Black Mountains”
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- Interlingua: “Black Mountains”
- Interlingue: “Black Mountains”
- Irish: “Black Mountains”
- Italian: “Black Mountains”
- Japanese: “ブラック・マウンテンズ”
- Japanese: “ブラック山脈”
- Kongo: “Black Mountains”
- Ladin: “Black Mountains (North Carolina)”
- Ladin: “Black Mountains”
- Ligurian: “Black Mountains”
- Limburgan: “Black Mountains”
- Low German: “Black Mountains”
- Luxembourgish: “Black Mountains”
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- Minangkabau: “Black Mountains”
- Narom: “Black Mountains”
- Neapolitan: “Black Mountains”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Black Mountains”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Black Mountains”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Black Mountains”
- Persian: “کوههای سیاه”
- Picard: “Black Mountains”
- Piemontese: “Black Mountains”
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- Romanian: “Black Mountains”
- Romansh: “Black Mountains”
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- Slovak: “Black Mountains”
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- Spanish: “Black Mountains”
- Swahili: “Black Mountains”
- Swedish: “Black Mountains, North Carolina”
- Swiss German: “Black Mountains”
- Venetian: “Black Mountains”
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- Walloon: “Black Mountains”
- Welsh: “Black Mountains”
- Wolof: “Black Mountains”
- Zulu: “Black Mountains”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Cattail Peak and Balsam Cone.
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