Appalachian Mountains
The Appalachian Mountains are a system of mountain ranges running along the eastern coast of North America from Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada in the north to Alabama in the United States in the south.Photo: Ken Thomas, Public domain.
Photo: Ken Thomas, CC0.
- Type: Mountain range
- Description: mountain range in the eastern United States and Canada
- Also known as: “Apalachean Mountains”, “Apalaches”, “Apalahchean Mountains”, “Appalachian System”, “Appalachians”, “Appalatian Mountains”, and “The Appalachians”
Appalachian Mountains
- Location: North America
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Latitude of center
35.75° or 35° 45′ northLongitude of center
-82.25° or 82° 15′ westElevation
305 metres (1,001 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 4857603223OpenStreetMap feature
natural=mountain_rangeGeoNames ID
5178401Wikidata ID
Q93332
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Appalachian Mountains” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Appalache”
- Albanian: “Appalachian Mountains”
- Albanian: “Malet Apalashe”
- Albanian: “Mallet Apalaçe”
- Albanian: “Vargmalet Apalashe”
- Arabic: “ابلاش”
- Arabic: “جبال أبالاش”
- Arabic: “جبال الأبالاش”
- Arabic: “جبال الابلاش”
- Armenian: “Ապալաչներ”
- Asturian: “Apalaches”
- Asturian: “Montes Apalaches”
- Azerbaijani: “Appalaç dağları”
- Azerbaijani: “Appalaç silsiləsi”
- Azerbaijani: “Appalaçlar”
- Bashkir: “Аппалачи”
- Basque: “Appalacheak”
- Bavarian: “Appalachen”
- Belarusian: “Апалачскія горы”
- Belarusian: “Апалачы”
- Bengali: “অ্যাপালাচীয় পর্বতমালা”
- Bengali: “অ্যাপালেচিয়ান পর্বতমালা”
- Bhojpuri: “अप्लेशियन परबत”
- Bosnian: “Apalači”
- Breton: “Appalachoù”
- Bulgarian: “Апалачи”
- Catalan: “Apalatxes”
- Catalan: “Muntanyes Apalatxes”
- Catalan: “Muntanyes Apalatxianes”
- Catalan: “Serralada dels Apalatxes”
- Cebuano: “Appalachian Mountains”
- Central Kurdish: “زنجیرەچیاکانی ئاپالاشیا”
- Chinese: “Appalachia Soaⁿ-hē”
- Chinese: “阿巴拉契亚山”
- Chinese: “阿巴拉契亚山脉”
- Chinese: “阿巴拉契亚高地”
- Chinese: “阿巴拉契亞山脈”
- Chinese: “阿帕拉契山”
- Chinese: “阿帕拉契山脈”
- Croatian: “Apalači gorje”
- Croatian: “Apalači”
- Croatian: “Apalačko gorje”
- Croatian: “Appalachian”
- Czech: “Apalačské hory”
- Czech: “Apalačské pohoří”
- Czech: “Appalačské pohoří”
- Danish: “Appalacherne”
- Dutch: “Apalachen”
- Dutch: “Appalachen”
- Dutch: “Appalachians”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبال الابالاش”
- Esperanto: “Apalaĉa Montaro”
- Esperanto: “Apalaĉaj Montoj”
- Esperanto: “Appalachian Mountains”
- Esperanto: “Montoj Apalaĉoj”
- Estonian: “Apalatši mäestik”
- Estonian: “Apalatšid”
- Faroese: “Appalachiafjøll”
- Faroese: “Appalakkufjøll”
- Finnish: “Appalakit”
- French: “Alleghanys”
- French: “Appalache”
- French: “Appalaches”
- French: “Les Appalaches”
- Galician: “Apalaches”
- Galician: “Montes Apalaches”
- Georgian: “აპალაჩები”
- German: “Appalachen”
- Greek: “Απαλάχια Όρη”
- Greek: “Αππαλάχια Όρη”
- Hebrew: “אפלאצ’ים”
- Hebrew: “אפלצ’ים”
- Hebrew: “הרי האפלאצ’ים”
- Hebrew: “הרי האפלצ’ים”
- Hindi: “एपलाशियन पर्वतमाला”
- Hungarian: “Appalache-hegység”
- Icelandic: “Appalachiafjöll”
- Icelandic: “Appalasíufjöll”
- Ido: “Apalachi”
- Inari Sami: “Appalakväärih”
- Indonesian: “Pegunungan Appalachia”
- Interlingua: “Montanias Appalachian”
- Irish: “Na Sléibhte Apaláiseacha”
- Italian: “Appalachi”
- Italian: “Monti Appalachi”
- Italian: “Monti Unakas”
- Japanese: “アパラチア山脈”
- Kazakh: “Appalaç taw jüýesi”
- Kazakh: “Аппалач тау жүйесі”
- Kazakh: “اپپالاتش تاۋ جۇيەسى”
- Kirghiz: “Аппалачи”
- Korean: “애팔래치아 산맥”
- Korean: “애팔래치아산맥”
- Korean: “애펄레이치언 산맥”
- Korean: “애펄레이치언 산줄기”
- Ladin: “Appalachian Mountains”
- Latin: “Montes Appalachiani”
- Latvian: “Apalači”
- Latvian: “Apalaču kalni”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Apalatxia”
- Lithuanian: “Apalačai”
- Lithuanian: “Apalačių kalnai”
- Lithuanian: “Apalačų kalnai”
- Luxembourgish: “Appalachen”
- Macedonian: “Апалачи”
- Macedonian: “Апалачки Планини”
- Malagasy: “Appalaches”
- Malay: “Banjaran Appalachian”
- Malay: “Pergunungan Appalachia”
- Malayalam: “Appalachian Mountains”
- Malayalam: “അപ്പലേച്ചിയൻ പർവതം”
- Malayalam: “അപ്പലേച്ചിയൻ പർവ്വതനിരകൾ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Appalachia Soaⁿ-lêng”
- Mingrelian: “აპალაჩეფი”
- Northern Frisian: “Appalachen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Appalachene”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Appalachians”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Appalachane”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Appalachene”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Appalachian Mountains”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Appalachians”
- Norwegian: “Appalachene”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Apalaches”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Appalacean Beorgas”
- Ossetian: “Аппалачтæ”
- Persian: “رشته کوه آپالیشین”
- Persian: “رشته کوهٔ آپالیشین”
- Persian: “رشتهٔ کوهٔ آپالیشین”
- Persian: “رشته کوه اپالیشین”
- Persian: “رشته کوه های آپالیشن”
- Persian: “رشتهٔ کوهٔ های آپالیشن”
- Persian: “رشته کوه های اپالیشن”
- Persian: “رشتهکوه آپالاش”
- Persian: “رشتهکوه آپالیشین”
- Persian: “رشتهکوهٔ آپالیشین”
- Persian: “رشتهکوه اپالیشین”
- Persian: “رشتهکوهٔ اپالیشین”
- Persian: “کوههای آپالیشن”
- Polish: “Appalachy”
- Portuguese: “Apalaches”
- Portuguese: “Cadeia dos Apalaches”
- Portuguese: “Montanhas Apalaches”
- Portuguese: “Montes apalaches”
- Romanian: “Appalachian Mountains”
- Romanian: “Munţii Apalaşi”
- Romanian: “Munții Apalași”
- Russian: “Аппалачи”
- Russian: “Аппалачские горы”
- Russian: “Аппалачский каменноугольный бассейн”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Na Beanntan Appalachian”
- Serbian: “Apalačke planine”
- Serbian: “Appalachian”
- Serbian: “Апалачи”
- Serbian: “Апалачиан”
- Serbian: “Апалачке планине”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Apalači”
- Slovak: “Apalače”
- Slovak: “Apalačské vrchy”
- Slovak: “Appalače”
- Slovak: “Appalačské vrchy”
- Slovenian: “Apalači”
- Spanish: “Apalaches”
- Spanish: “Montañas Apalache”
- Spanish: “Montanas Apalaches”
- Spanish: “Montañas Apalaches”
- Spanish: “Montes Apalaches”
- Swahili: “Milima Apalachi”
- Swedish: “Appalacherna”
- Tajik: “Appalaci”
- Tajik: “Аппалачи”
- Tajik: “Аппалачӣ”
- Tamil: “ஆப்பலேச்சிய மலைத்தொடர்”
- Thai: “เทือกเขาแอปพาเลเชียน”
- Turkish: “Apalaş Dağları”
- Turkish: “Appalachian Dağları”
- Ukrainian: “Аппалачі”
- Urdu: “اپالاچئین پہاڑ”
- Uzbek: “Appalachi Tog‘lari”
- Uzbek: “Appalachi tog’lari”
- Uzbek: “Appalachi Tog’lari”
- Uzbek: “Appalachi tog`lari”
- Uzbek: “Appalachi Tog`lari”
- Uzbek: “Appalachi togʻlari”
- Uzbek: “Appalachi Togʻlari”
- Venetian: “Apałachi”
- Venetian: “Appalachi”
- Vietnamese: “Appalachian”
- Vietnamese: “Dãy Appalachia”
- Vietnamese: “Dãy Appalachian”
- Vietnamese: “Dãy núi Appalachia”
- Vietnamese: “Dãy núi Appalachian”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bukid Appalachian”
- Welsh: “Mynyddoedd Appalachia”
- Western Frisian: “Appalachen”
- Western Panjabi: “اپلیچیئن”
- Wu Chinese: “阿巴拉契亚山脉”
- Yue Chinese: “阿帕拉契山脈”
- “अप्लेशियन परबत”
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