Baekdu Mountains

The Baekdu Mountains or Paektu Mountain are a range in the northern part of spanning the provinces of Ryanggang and Chagang that are of huge symbolic importance to many Koreans.
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Baekdu Mountains

Latitude
42.0073° or 42° 0′ 26″ north
Longitude
128.0564° or 128° 3′ 23″ east
Elevation
2,750 metres (9,022 feet)
Open location code
8QJC2344+WH
Open­Street­Map ID
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Wiki­data ID
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Yue Chinese—“Baekdu Mountains” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Баитоушань”
  • Abkhazian: “Пекту”
  • Abkhazian: “Пектусан”
  • Abkhazian: “Чаньбаишань”
  • Arabic: “جبل بايكتو”
  • Arabic: “جبل تشانغباي”
  • Armenian: “Պեկտուսան”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pektusan dağı”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pektusan”
  • Bashkir: “Пэктусан (вулкан)”
  • Bashkir: “Пэктусан”
  • Basque: “Baekdu mendia”
  • Basque: “Paektu mendia”
  • Belarusian: “Пэктусан”
  • Bengali: “চাংবাই পর্বত”
  • Bengali: “চাংবাই পাহাড়”
  • Bengali: “পাইকতু পর্বত”
  • Bengali: “পাইকতু”
  • Bengali: “বায়েকডু”
  • Bengali: “বায়েকদু পর্বতমালা”
  • Bengali: “মাউন্ট পাইকতু”
  • Bosnian: “Baekdu”
  • Bulgarian: “Байтоушан”
  • Bulgarian: “Връх Пекту”
  • Bulgarian: “Пектусан”
  • Burmese: “ပက်တူတောင်”
  • Burmese: “ဘက်ဒူတောင်”
  • Catalan: “Golmin Šanggiyan Alin”
  • Catalan: “Mont Baekdu”
  • Catalan: “Mont Changbai”
  • Catalan: “Mont Paektu”
  • Catalan: “Mont Paetku”
  • Catalan: “Paektu”
  • Cebuano: “Paektu-san (bukid sa Republikang Popular sa Tsina)”
  • Cebuano: “Paektu-san”
  • Chinese: “Chángbái Shān”
  • Chinese: “Tiông-pe̍k-san”
  • Chinese: “不咸山”
  • Chinese: “白头山”
  • Chinese: “白头山脉”
  • Chinese: “白頭山”
  • Chinese: “長白山”
  • Chinese: “长白山”
  • Chinese: “长白山景区”
  • Chinese: “长白山脉”
  • Chinese: “长白山自然保护区”
  • Croatian: “Baekdu”
  • Czech: “Paektu-san”
  • Czech: “Paektusan”
  • Czech: “Päktusan”
  • Czech: “Pektu-san”
  • Czech: “Pektusan”
  • Danish: “Paektusan”
  • Dutch: “Baitoushan”
  • Dutch: “Paektu-san”
  • Dutch: “Paektusan”
  • Dutch: “Paektushan”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل بايكتو”
  • Esperanto: “Päktusan”
  • Esperanto: “Pektusan”
  • Estonian: “Baitoushan”
  • Estonian: “Paektu-san”
  • Estonian: “Pektusan”
  • Finnish: “Baekdu”
  • Finnish: “Paektuvuori”
  • French: “Baekdu”
  • French: “Janbaek”
  • French: “mont Paektu”
  • French: “Mont Paektu”
  • French: “Paektu-san”
  • Galician: “Monte Paektu”
  • Georgian: “პექტუსანი”
  • German: “Baekdusan”
  • German: “Baitou Shan”
  • German: “Baitou”
  • German: “Baitoushan”
  • German: “Mt. Paektu”
  • German: “Paekdu”
  • German: “Paektu San”
  • German: “Paektu-san”
  • German: “Paektu”
  • German: “Paektusan”
  • German: “Päktusan”
  • Greek: “Όρος Πέκτου”
  • Hebrew: “הר פאקטו”
  • Hindi: “बएकदू पर्वत”
  • Hungarian: “Pektu-hegy”
  • Indonesian: “Baekdusan”
  • Indonesian: “Gunung Baekdu”
  • Indonesian: “Gunung Changbai”
  • Indonesian: “Gunung Paektu”
  • Italian: “Baitou Shan”
  • Italian: “Montagna Baitou”
  • Italian: “Montagne Baekdu”
  • Italian: “Monte Paektu”
  • Italian: “Paektusan”
  • Japanese: “チャンベクサン”
  • Japanese: “チャンベク山”
  • Japanese: “ペクドゥ”
  • Japanese: “ペクトゥサン”
  • Japanese: “ペクトゥ山”
  • Japanese: “ペクト山”
  • Japanese: “白頭山”
  • Japanese: “長白山”
  • Javanese: “Gunung Baekdu”
  • Kazakh: “Пэктусан”
  • Kirghiz: “Пектусан”
  • Korean: “백두산”
  • Korean: “창 바이 산”
  • Korean: “창바이산”
  • Ladin: “Mont Baekdu”
  • Latvian: “Pektusans”
  • Literary Chinese: “長白山”
  • Lithuanian: “Pektu”
  • Lithuanian: “Pektusanas”
  • Low German: “Baekdu”
  • Low German: “Paektu”
  • Macedonian: “Бајту Шан”
  • Malay: “Baekdu”
  • Malay: “Gunung Baekdu”
  • Malay: “Gunung Paektu”
  • Manchu: “ᡤᠣᠯᠮᡳᠨ ᡧᠠᠨᠶᠠᠨ ᠠᠯᡳᠨ”
  • Manchu: “ᡤᠣᠯᠮᡳᠨ ᡧᠠᠩᡤᡳᠶᠠᠨ ᠠᠯᡳᠨ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tiông-pe̍k-san”
  • Mingrelian: “პექტუსანი”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Baekdufjellet”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Baektu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Paektu-san”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Paektu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Paektufjellet”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Paektusan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Taebaekfjellet”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Paektu”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Paektufjellet”
  • Norwegian: “Paektu-san”
  • Pampanga: “Bunduk Baekdu”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਏਕਦੂ ਪਹਾੜ”
  • Persian: “کوه بکتو”
  • Persian: “کوه پکتو”
  • Polish: “Baekdu-san”
  • Polish: “Baekdu”
  • Polish: “Baitou Shan”
  • Polish: “Paektu-san”
  • Polish: “Paektu”
  • Polish: “Pektu-san”
  • Portuguese: “Montanha Baekdu”
  • Portuguese: “Monte Baekdu”
  • Portuguese: “Monte Paektu”
  • Portuguese: “Paektu-san”
  • Romanian: “Paektusan”
  • Russian: “Байтоушань”
  • Russian: “вулкан Байтоушань (Пэктусан)”
  • Russian: “Пэкту”
  • Russian: “Пэктусан”
  • Russian: “Чаньбайшань”
  • Scots: “Paektu Muntain”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Baekdu”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Baitoushan”
  • Slovak: “Baitoušan”
  • Slovak: “Baitoushan”
  • Slovak: “Čangbajšan”
  • Slovak: “Päktu-san”
  • Slovak: “Päktusan”
  • Slovenian: “Baekdu”
  • Spanish: “Baekdu-san”
  • Spanish: “Baekdu”
  • Spanish: “Monte Baekdu”
  • Spanish: “Monte Paektu”
  • Spanish: “Paektu-san”
  • Spanish: “Paektu”
  • Swahili: “Paektu”
  • Swedish: “Baektu-san”
  • Swedish: “Baektu”
  • Swedish: “Baektusan”
  • Swedish: “Baitoushan”
  • Swedish: “Changbai”
  • Swedish: “Paektu-san”
  • Swedish: “Paektu”
  • Swedish: “Paektusan”
  • Tagalog: “Baekdu”
  • Tagalog: “Bundok Baekdu”
  • Tagalog: “Bundok Paektu”
  • Tagalog: “Paektu”
  • Thai: “ภูเขาแพ็กดู”
  • Tibetan: “ཁྲང་པེ་རི་བོ།”
  • Turkish: “Baekdu Dağı”
  • Ukrainian: “Байтоушань”
  • Ukrainian: “Гора Пекту”
  • Ukrainian: “Пекту”
  • Ukrainian: “Пектусан”
  • Ukrainian: “Чанбай”
  • Urdu: “کوہ پائکتو”
  • Uzbek: “Pektusan”
  • Venetian: “Montagna Baitou”
  • Vietnamese: “Bạch Đầu Sơn”
  • Vietnamese: “Baekdu”
  • Vietnamese: “núi Bạch Đầu”
  • Vietnamese: “Núi Bạch Đầu”
  • Vietnamese: “núi Baekdu”
  • Vietnamese: “núi Paektu”
  • Vietnamese: “núi Trường Bạch”
  • Vietnamese: “Núi Trường Bạch”
  • Western Panjabi: “پئیکتو پہاڑ”
  • Wu Chinese: “长白山”
  • Yue Chinese: “長白山”

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