Great Smoky Mountains

The Great Smoky Mountains are a mountain range rising along the – border in the southeastern United States. They are a subrange of the and form part of the .
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  • Type: Mountain with an elevation of 4,094 feet
  • Description: American mountain range along North Carolina/Tennessee border
  • Also known as: “Giukoustee Mountains”, “Great Iron Mountains”, “Great Smokey Mountains”, “Great Smokies”, “Iron Mountains”, “Shaconage”, “Smokey Mountains”, “Smokies”, “Smoky Mountains”, and “the Smokies”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Great Smoky Mountains National Park and Clingmans Dome.

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is a United States national park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and an International Biosphere Reserve that straddles the border between and .

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Kuwohi, also known as , is a mountain in the Great Smoky Mountains of and in the Southeastern United States. At an elevation of 6,643 feet, it is the highest mountain in the , the highest point in the state of Tennessee, and the highest point along the 2,192-mile . is situated 1½ miles south of Great Smoky Mountains.

Scenic viewpoint
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is a scenic viewpoint.

Great Smoky Mountains

Latitude
35.58343° or 35° 35′ 0″ north
Longitude
-83.50822° or 83° 30′ 30″ west
Elevation
4,094 feet (1,248 metres)
Open location code
867RHFMR+9P
Geo­Names ID
4626066
Wiki­data ID
Q1360486
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Western Frisian—“Great Smoky Mountains” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Great Smoky Mountains”
  • Arabic: “جبال سموكي العظيمة”
  • Asturian: “Grandes Montes Fumientos”
  • Basque: “Great Smoky mendiak”
  • Bengali: “গ্রেট স্মোকি পর্বতমালা”
  • Bengali: “গ্রেট স্মোকিজ”
  • Bengali: “স্মোকি পর্বতমালা”
  • Bengali: “স্মোকিজ”
  • Catalan: “muntanyes Great Smoky”
  • Cebuano: “Great Smoky Mountains”
  • Cherokee: “ᎡᏆ ᏚᏧᏍᏚ ᏙᏓᎸ”
  • Chinese: “大烟山”
  • Chinese: “大煙山”
  • Danish: “Great Smoky Mountains”
  • Danish: “Smoky Mountains”
  • Dutch: “Great Smokey Mountains”
  • Dutch: “Great Smoky Mountains”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبال سموكى العظيمه”
  • Esperanto: “Grandaj Fummontoj”
  • French: “monts Great Smoky”
  • French: “Monts Great Smoky”
  • Galician: “Grandes Montañas Fumegantes”
  • German: “Great Smoky Mountains”
  • German: “Smoky Mountains”
  • Hebrew: “הרי הסמוקי”
  • Indonesian: “Pegunungan Great Smoky”
  • Interlingua: “Great Smoky Mountains”
  • Italian: “Great Smoky Mountains”
  • Italian: “Smoky Mountains”
  • Japanese: “グレート・スモーキー山脈”
  • Korean: “그레이트 스모키 산맥”
  • Korean: “그레이트스모키산맥”
  • Ladin: “Great Smoky Mountains”
  • Lithuanian: “Didieji Dulsvieji kalnai”
  • Macedonian: “Големи Чадливи Планини”
  • Malayalam: “ഗ്രേറ്റ് സ്മോക്കി മലനിരകൾ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Great Smoky Mountains”
  • Polish: “Great Smoky Mountains”
  • Portuguese: “Montanhas Great Smoky”
  • Russian: “Грейт-Смоки-Маунтинс (хребет)”
  • Russian: “Грейт-Смоки-Маунтинс”
  • Spanish: “Grandes Montañas Humeantes”
  • Spanish: “Montañas Great Smoky”
  • Tamil: “பெரும் புகைமலை”
  • Venetian: “Great Smoky Mountains”
  • Vietnamese: “Đại Yên Sơn”
  • Vietnamese: “dãy núi Great Smoky”
  • Vietnamese: “dãy núi Smoky lớn”
  • Vietnamese: “dãy núi Smoky”
  • Western Frisian: “Great Smoky Mountains”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Peawood Hollow and Dead Hollow.

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