Mount Rainier
Mount Rainier, also known as Tahoma, is a large active stratovolcano in the Cascade Range of the Pacific Northwest in the United States. The mountain is located in Mount Rainier National Park about 59 miles south-southeast of Seattle.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Volcano with an elevation of 14,409 feet
- Description: stratovolcano in the U.S. state of Washington
- Also known as: “Mount Tacoma”, “Mt Rainier”, “Mt. Rainier”, “Mt. Regnier”, “Puak-coke”, “Rainier”, “Rainier Mountain”, “Ta-co-be”, “Ta-co-pe”, “Tacoma”, “Tahoma”, and “Tu-ah-ku”
Photo: Tagooty, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Rainier National Park and Liberty Cap.
Mount Rainier National Park
Photo: Lumpytrout, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mount Rainier National Park is a national park located in the state of Washington, some 54 miles south-east of Seattle. Established in 1899 and 368 miles² in size, the National Park is centered on the spectacular cone of Mount Rainier, a massive active stratovolcano 14,410 ft high.
Willis Wall
Cliff
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Willis Wall is the name given to the prominent headwall of the Carbon Glacier's eastern cirque on Mount Rainier in the state of Washington. The 3,600 feet foot wall of volcanic rock on Mount Rainier's north face was named in honor of geological engineer…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Paradise.
Paradise
Hamlet
Photo: Wsiegmund, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Paradise is the name of an area at approximately 5,400 feet on the south slope of Mount Rainier in Mount Rainier National Park in Washington, United States. Paradise is situated 4½ miles south of Mount Rainier.
Mount Rainier
- Categories: mountain, sacred mountain, stratovolcano, and landform
- Location: Pierce, Washington, Pacific Northwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
46.8522° or 46° 51′ 8″ northLongitude
-121.75752° or 121° 45′ 27″ westElevation
14,409 feet (4,392 metres)Open location code
84RWV62R+VXOpenStreetMap ID
node 1744903493OpenStreetMap feature
natural=volcano
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Satellite Map
Discover Mount Rainier from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Mount Rainier” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Berg Rainier”
- Afrikaans: “Rainier”
- Amharic: “ረኒር”
- Amharic: “ሬኒዬ”
- Arabic: “جبل رينييه”
- Armenian: “Ռեյնիր”
- Basque: “Rainier mendia”
- Bengali: “রাইনিয়ার পর্বত”
- Catalan: “Mont Rainier”
- Cebuano: “Mount Rainier (bukid)”
- Cebuano: “Mount Rainier”
- Central Kurdish: “چیای ڕەینیەر”
- Chinese: “Rainier Soaⁿ”
- Chinese: “瑞尼爾山”
- Chinese: “雷尼尔山”
- Chinese: “雷尼爾山”
- Chinese: “雷尼爾峰”
- Czech: “Mount Rainier”
- Czech: “Rainier”
- Danish: “Mount Rainier”
- Danish: “Mt. Rainer”
- Dutch: “Mount Rainier”
- Dutch: “Mt. Rainier”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل رينييه”
- Esperanto: “Monto Rainier”
- Esperanto: “Monto Rajnera”
- Esperanto: “Mount Rainier”
- Estonian: “Mount Rainier”
- Estonian: “Rainieri mägi”
- Estonian: “Rainieri vulkaan”
- Finnish: “Mount Rainier”
- French: “mont Rainier”
- French: “Mont Rainier”
- French: “Mount Rainier”
- Galician: “Monte Rainier”
- Galician: “Tacoma”
- Georgian: “რეინიერის მთა”
- Georgian: “რეინირი”
- German: “Mount Rainier”
- German: “Mt. Rainier”
- German: “Takhoma”
- Greek: “Όρος Ραίινιερ”
- Greek: “Όρος Ραινιέρ”
- Greek: “Όρος Ραινίερ”
- Greek: “Όρος Ρέιναρ”
- Greek: “Όρος Ρέινιαρ”
- Greek: “Όρος Ρέινιερ”
- Greek: “Όρος Ρέινιρ”
- Greek: “Όρος Ρενιέρ”
- Greek: “Όρος Ρενίερ”
- Hebrew: “הר ריינייר”
- Hebrew: “הר ריינר”
- Hindi: “माउण्टरेनियर”
- Hungarian: “Mount Rainier”
- Icelandic: “Mount Rainier”
- Indonesian: “Gunung Rainier”
- Irish: “Mount Rainier”
- Irish: “Sliabh Rainier”
- Irish: “Tahoma”
- Italian: “Monte Rainier”
- Japanese: “タコマ富士”
- Japanese: “レーニア山”
- Korean: “레이니어 산”
- Korean: “레이니어산”
- Kurdish: “Çiyayê Rainier”
- Kurdish: “چیایێ رانەر”
- Ladin: “Mount Rainier”
- Latvian: “Reinīra kalns”
- Lithuanian: “Reinyras”
- Lithuanian: “Reinyro kalnas”
- Macedonian: “Рејнир”
- Malay: “Gunung Berapi Rainier”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Rainier Soaⁿ”
- Moroccan Arabic: “جبل ريينيي”
- Northern Frisian: “Mount Rainier”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mount Rainier”
- Norwegian: “Mount Rainier”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Mont Rainier”
- Persian: “کوه رینر”
- Persian: “کوه رینیر”
- Persian: “کوهٔ رینیر”
- Polish: “Mount Rainier”
- Portuguese: “Monte Rainier”
- Romansh: “Mount Rainier”
- Russian: “Маунт-Рейньер”
- Russian: “Рейнир”
- Russian: “Рейньер”
- Russian: “Рэйнир”
- Scots: “Moont Rainier”
- Serbian: “Рејнир”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mount Rainier”
- Slovak: “Rainier”
- Slovenian: “Mount Rainier”
- Slovenian: “Tahoma”
- Spanish: “Monte Rainier”
- Spanish: “Mount Rainier”
- Spanish: “Volcan Mount Rainier”
- Spanish: “Volcán Mount Rainier”
- Swahili: “Mlima Rainier”
- Swedish: “Mount Rainier”
- Tagalog: “Bundok Rainier”
- Thai: “ภูเขาเรเนียร์”
- Turkish: “Rainier Dağı”
- Ukrainian: “Рейнір”
- Urdu: “ماؤنٹ رائنیر”
- Venetian: “Monte Rainier”
- Vietnamese: “núi Rainier”
- Vietnamese: “Núi Rainier”
- Vietnamese: “Tacoma”
- Vietnamese: “Tahoma”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bukid Rainier”
- Western Frisian: “Mount Rainier”
- Western Panjabi: “ٹلہ رینئیر”
- Wu Chinese: “瑞尼尔山”
- Wu Chinese: “雷尼尔山”
- Yue Chinese: “雷尼爾山”
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