Blue Ridge

The Blue Ridge Mountains are a physiographic province of the larger Appalachian Highlands range. The mountain range is located in the Eastern United States and extends 550 miles southwest from southern through , , , , , , and .
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  • Mountain rising to 6,568 feet (2,002 metres)
  • Description: mountain range in the Eastern U.S.
  • Also known as
    “Blew Ledge”
    “Blew Mountain”
    “Blew Ridge”
    “Blue Ledge”
    “Blue Ridge Mountains”
    “Blue Ridge of Mountains”
    “Cawcasus”
    “Occonachie”
    “Taweasus”
    “The Blue Ridge of the Alagany Mountains”
    “The Ledge”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mount Mitchell and Mount Mitchell Museum.
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Blue Ridge

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Latitude
35.76428° or 35° 45′ 51″ north
Longitude
-82.26568° or 82° 15′ 56″ west
Open location code
867VQP7M+PP
Geo­Names ID
4456414
Wiki­data ID
Q166755

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Vietnamese—“Blue Ridge” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Blue Ridge Mountains”
  • Arabic: “السلسة الزرقاء”
  • Basque: “Blue Ridge mendiak”
  • Bavarian: “Blue Ridge Mountains”
  • Belarusian: “Блакітны хрыбет”
  • Belarusian: “Блу-Рыдж”
  • Bulgarian: “Блу Ридж”
  • Catalan: “muntanyes Blue Ridge”
  • Catalan: “Muntanyes Blue Ridge”
  • Cebuano: “Blue Ridge”
  • Cherokee: “ᏌᎪᏂᎨ ᏣᎴᎩ”
  • Chinese: “藍嶺山脈”
  • Czech: “Blue Ridge Mountains”
  • Danish: “Blue Ridge Mountains”
  • Dutch: “Blue Ridge Mountains”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “السلسه الزرقا”
  • Esperanto: “Blukresta Montaro”
  • Estonian: “Blue Ridge”
  • Finnish: “Blue Ridge Mountains”
  • French: “montagnes Bleues”
  • French: “montagnes Blue Ridge”
  • French: “Montagnes Blue Ridge”
  • Georgian: “ცისფერი ქედი”
  • German: “Blue Ridge Mountains”
  • Hebrew: “בלו רידג‘”
  • Hebrew: “הרי בלו רידג’”
  • Italian: “Blue Ridge Mountains”
  • Italian: “Monti Blue Ridge”
  • Japanese: “ブルーリッジ山脈”
  • Korean: “블루리지산맥”
  • Ladin: “Blue Ridge Mountains”
  • Latin: “Montes Iugi Caerulei”
  • Lithuanian: “Mėlynasis kalnagūbris”
  • Macedonian: “Син Срт”
  • Malayalam: “ബ്ലൂറിഡ്ജ് മലനിരകൾ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Blue Ridge Mountains”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Blue Ridge Mountains”
  • Norwegian: “Blue Ridge Mountains”
  • Persian: “کوهستان بلو ریج”
  • Persian: “کوهستان بلو ریدج”
  • Polish: “Pasmo Błękitne”
  • Portuguese: “Montanhas Blue Ridge”
  • Romanian: “Munții Blue Ridge”
  • Russian: “Блу-Ридж”
  • Russian: “Голубой хребет”
  • Slovak: “Blue Ridge Mountains”
  • Slovenian: “Blue Ridge Mountains”
  • Slovenian: “Modre gore*”
  • Spanish: “Cordillera Azul”
  • Swedish: “Blue Ridge Mountains”
  • Swedish: “Blue Ridge”
  • Thai: “เทือกเขาบลูริดจ์”
  • Turkish: “Blue Ridge Dağları”
  • Ukrainian: “Блакитний хребет”
  • Venetian: “Monti Blue Ridge”
  • Vietnamese: “dãy núi Blue Ridge”
  • Vietnamese: “dãy sườn núi Blue”
  • Vietnamese: “Sườn núi Xanh”

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