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Himalayas

Mount Everest

Mount Everest is the world's tallest mountain at 8,848.86 m. It straddles the border of / and and can be visited from either side: See also Hillary and Norgay, the first to climb Everest.
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  • Type: Peak
  • Description: Earth’s highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas
  • Also known as: “Ai-fo-lo-ssu Feng”, “Chomo-lungma”, “Chomolangma”, “Chomolongma”, “Chomolungma”, “Djomo-lungma”, “Everest”, “Himalaya Peak XV”, “Lapchi-kang”, “Mount Chomolubutangma”, “Mount Jolmo Lungma”, “Mount Qomolangma”, “Mount Sagarmatha”, “Mt Everest”, “Mt. Everest”, “Peak XV”, “Qomolangma”, “Qomolangma Feng”, “Sagar-Matha”, “Sagarmatha”, “Sagarmāthā”, “Sheng-mu Feng”, “Shèngmǔ Fēng”, “World highest peak”, “Zhumulangma”, and “Эвересг”
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Mount Everest

Latitude of center
27.9881° or 27° 59′ 17″ north
Longitude of center
86.9252° or 86° 55′ 31″ east
Elevation
8,848 metres (29,029 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 164979149
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
1283416
Wiki­data ID
Q513
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Mount Everest” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Gunong Everest”
  • Afrikaans: “Berg Everest”
  • Afrikaans: “Everest”
  • Albanian: “Bjeshka Everest”
  • Albanian: “Everest”
  • Albanian: “Maja Everest”
  • Albanian: “Mali Everest”
  • Amharic: “ኤቨረስት ተራራ”
  • Angika: “एवरेस्ट”
  • Arabic: “إفرست”
  • Arabic: “إيفرست”
  • Arabic: “جبل إفرست”
  • Arabic: “جبل إيفرست”
  • Aragonese: “Everest”
  • Armenian: “Էվերեստ”
  • Armenian: “Ջոմոլունգմա”
  • Armenian: “Սագարմաթա”
  • Arpitan: “Everest”
  • Assamese: “মাউণ্ট এভাৰেষ্ট”
  • Asturian: “Everest”
  • Asturian: “monte Everest”
  • Asturian: “Qomolangma”
  • Asturian: “Sagarmatha”
  • Avaric: “Джомолунгма”
  • Avaric: “Эверест”
  • Awadhi: “सगरमाथा”
  • Aymara: “Everest”
  • Azerbaijani: “Everest”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qomolangma dağı”
  • Balinese: “Évérést”
  • Banjar: “Comolangma”
  • Banjar: “Gunung Èferès”
  • Banjar: “Gunung Èperès”
  • Banjar: “Gunung Everest”
  • Banjar: “Sagarmata”
  • Banjar: “titik paningginya bumi”
  • Bashkir: “Джомолунгма”
  • Basque: “Chomolungma”
  • Basque: “Everest”
  • Basque: “Sagarmāthā”
  • Batak Mandailing: “Gunung Everest”
  • Bavarian: “Mount Everest”
  • Belarusian: “Джамалунгма (Сагарматха)”
  • Belarusian: “Джамалунгма”
  • Belarusian: “Эвэрэст”
  • Bengali: “এভারেস্ট পর্বত”
  • Bengali: “এভারেস্ট”
  • Bengali: “চোমোলাংমা”
  • Bengali: “সগরমাথা”
  • Bhojpuri: “एवरेस्ट परबत”
  • Bhojpuri: “एवरेस्ट पर्वत”
  • Bhojpuri: “एवरेस्ट पहाड़”
  • Bhojpuri: “माउंट एवरेस्ट”
  • Bhojpuri: “सगरमाथा”
  • Bishnupriya: “দেবদুর্গ”
  • Bosnian: “Chomolungma”
  • Bosnian: “Mount Everest”
  • Bosnian: “Sagarmatha”
  • Bosnian: “Zhumulangma”
  • Breton: “Menez Everest”
  • Buginese: “bulu Somolama”
  • Buginese: “ᨅᨘᨒᨘ ᨔᨚᨆᨚᨒᨆ”
  • Bulgarian: “Джомолунгма”
  • Bulgarian: “Еверест”
  • Bulgarian: “Сагарматха”
  • Burmese: “ချိုမိုလန်းမားတောင်”
  • Burmese: “ဧဝရက်တောင်”
  • Burmese: “ဧဝရတ်တောင်”
  • Catalan: “Chomolangma”
  • Catalan: “Chomolungma”
  • Catalan: “Everest”
  • Catalan: “mont Everest”
  • Catalan: “Qomolangma Feng”
  • Catalan: “Qomolangma”
  • Catalan: “Sagarmatha”
  • Catalan: “Sagarmāthā”
  • Catalan: “Zhumulangma”
  • Cebuano: “Mount Everest”
  • Central Bikol: “Bukid Everest”
  • Central Kurdish: “چیای ئیڤرست”
  • Central Kurdish: “چیای ئێڤەرست”
  • Chechen: “Джомолунгма”
  • Cheyenne: “Vose Everest”
  • Chinese: “Chomolangma Hong”
  • Chinese: “Zhūmùlǎngmǎ Fēng”
  • Chinese: “圣母峰”
  • Chinese: “珠峰”
  • Chinese: “珠穆朗玛”
  • Chinese: “珠穆朗玛peak”
  • Chinese: “珠穆朗玛峰”
  • Chinese: “珠穆朗瑪峰”
  • Chinese: “聖母峰”
  • Chinese: “額菲爾士峰”
  • Chinese: “额菲尔士峰”
  • Chuvash: “Джомолунгма”
  • Cornish: “Menydh Everest”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Everest dağı”
  • Croatian: “Everest”
  • Croatian: “Mount Everest”
  • Czech: “Čumulangma”
  • Czech: “Džomolangma”
  • Czech: “Everest”
  • Czech: “Mount Everest”
  • Czech: “Sagarmátha”
  • Danish: “Mount Everest”
  • Dhivehi: “އެވަރެސްޓް ފަރުބަދަ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Koyê Everesti”
  • Dotyali: “सगरमाथा”
  • Dutch: “Everest”
  • Dutch: “Mount Everest”
  • Eastern Mari: “Эверест”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ايفيريست”
  • Esperanto: “Ĉomolangma”
  • Esperanto: “Ĉomolungmo”
  • Esperanto: “Everesto”
  • Estonian: “Džomolungma”
  • Estonian: “Everest”
  • Estonian: “Mount Everest”
  • Extremaduran: “Monti Everest”
  • Faroese: “Mount Everest”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Mount Everest”
  • Finnish: “Everest”
  • Finnish: “Mount Everest”
  • French: “Chomolungma”
  • French: “Everest”
  • French: “mont Everest”
  • French: “Sagarmatha”
  • Galician: “Chomolungma”
  • Galician: “Everest”
  • Galician: “monte Everest”
  • Galician: “Qomolangma”
  • Galician: “Sagarmata”
  • Gan Chinese: “珠穆朗瑪峰”
  • Ganda: “Mount Everest”
  • Georgian: “ევერესტი”
  • Georgian: “საგარმათხა”
  • Georgian: “ჯომოლუნგმა”
  • German: “Chomolungma”
  • German: “Everest”
  • German: “Mount Everest”
  • German: “Mt. Everest”
  • German: “Sagarmatha”
  • German: “Sagarmāthā”
  • German: “Tschomolungma”
  • German: “Zhumulangma”
  • Gorontalo: “Hu’idu Everest”
  • Greek: “Έβερεστ”
  • Greek: “Ζουμουλάνγκμα”
  • Greek: “Σαργκαρμάθα”
  • Greek: “Τσομολάνγκμα (Φενγκ)”
  • Greek: “Τσομολούνγκμα”
  • Guarani: “Éverest”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Évrest”
  • Gujarati: “માઉન્ટ એવરેસ્ટ”
  • Gun: “Osó Everest”
  • Haitian: “Everest”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Chomolangma Fûng”
  • Hausa: “Tsaunin Everest”
  • Hawaiian: “Mauna Everest”
  • Hebrew: “אוורסט”
  • Hebrew: “סאגרמטהה”
  • Hebrew: “צ’וֹמוֹ לוּנְגְמַה”
  • Hindi: “एवरेस्ट पर्वत”
  • Hindi: “माउंट एव्हरेस्ट”
  • Hindi: “सगरमाथा”
  • Hungarian: “Csomolungma”
  • Hungarian: “Mount Everest”
  • Hungarian: “Qomolangma”
  • Hungarian: “Sagarmatha”
  • Iban: “Gunung Everest”
  • Icelandic: “Everestfjall”
  • Ido: “Everest”
  • Ido: “Monto Everest”
  • Iloko: “Bantay Everest”
  • Iloko: “Everest”
  • Inari Sami: “Mount Everest”
  • Indonesian: “Everest”
  • Indonesian: “Gunung Everest”
  • Indonesian: “Qomolangma”
  • Indonesian: “Sagarmatha”
  • Indonesian: “titik tertinggi bumi”
  • Interlingua: “Monte Everest”
  • Interlingue: “Mount Everest”
  • Inupiaq: “Everest”
  • Irish: “Sagarmatha”
  • Irish: “Sliabh Everest (Teomólungma)”
  • Irish: “Sliabh Everest”
  • Irish: “Teomólungma”
  • Italian: “Chomolungma”
  • Italian: “Everest”
  • Italian: “Monte Everest”
  • Italian: “Sagaramāthā”
  • Italian: “Zhumulangma”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Mount Evares”
  • Japanese: “エヴェレスト”
  • Japanese: “エベレスト”
  • Japanese: “エベレスト山”
  • Japanese: “サガルマータ”
  • Japanese: “チョモランマ”
  • Javanese: “Gunung Èperès”
  • Javanese: “Mount Everest”
  • Kabiyè: “Everest pʋʋ”
  • Kabyle: “Adrar n Everest”
  • Kabyle: “Everest”
  • Kalaallisut: “Everest”
  • Kalaallisut: “Mount Everest”
  • Kannada: “ಎವರೆಸ್ಟ್ ಶಿಖರ”
  • Kannada: “ಎವರೆಸ್ಟ್”
  • Kannada: “ಗೌರಿಶಂಕರ ಶಿಖರ”
  • Kannada: “ಮೌಂಟ್ ಎವರೆಸ್ಟ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Djomolungma”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “dúnyanıń eń bálent noqatı”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Everest”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Sagarmatxa”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Shenmufen”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Эверест”
  • Kashmiri: “ماوُنٹ ایورسٹ”
  • Kazakh: “Джомолунгма”
  • Kikuyu: “Mount Everest”
  • Kirghiz: “Жомолунгма”
  • Korean: “사가르마타”
  • Korean: “성모봉”
  • Korean: “에베레스트”
  • Korean: “에베레스트산”
  • Korean: “주무랑마봉”
  • Korean: “주무랑마펑”
  • Korean: “초모랑마”
  • Kurdish: “Çiyayê Everest”
  • Ladin: “Chomolungma”
  • Ladin: “Crëp Everest”
  • Ladin: “Everest”
  • Ladin: “Mont Everest”
  • Ladin: “Mount Everest”
  • Ladin: “Sagarmatha”
  • Ladin: “Zhumulangma”
  • Lao: “ເຂົາເອເວີເຣສຕ໌”
  • Lao: “​ເຂົາເອເວີເຣສຕ໌”
  • Latin: “Everestius mons”
  • Latvian: “Džomolungma”
  • Latvian: “Everests”
  • Latvian: “Sagarmātha”
  • Lezghian: “Джомолунгма”
  • Limburgan: “Mount Everest”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Sagarmata”
  • Literary Chinese: “珠穆朗瑪峰”
  • Lithuanian: “Džomolungma”
  • Lithuanian: “Everestas”
  • Lombard: “Everest”
  • Low German: “Mount Everest”
  • Luxembourgish: “Mount Everest”
  • Macedonian: “Монт Еверест”
  • Madurese: “Ghunong Èverèst”
  • Maithili: “सगरमाथा”
  • Malagasy: “Everest”
  • Malay: “Everest”
  • Malay: “Gunung Everest”
  • Malay: “ايۏرسﺕ”
  • Malay: “ݢونوڠ ايۏرسﺕ”
  • Malayalam: “എവറസ്റ്റ് കൊടുമുടി”
  • Malayalam: “എവറസ്റ്റ്‌ കൊടുമുടി”
  • Maltese: “Muntanja Everest”
  • Maori: “Everest”
  • Marathi: “एव्हरेस्ट”
  • Marathi: “माउंट एव्हरेस्ट”
  • Mazanderani: “اورست”
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: “افرست”
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: “جبل افرست”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Chomolungma Hŭng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Chomolangma Hong”
  • Mingrelian: “ევერესტი”
  • Mongolian: “Жомолунгма”
  • Mongolian: “Эверест”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “جبل إيڤريسط”
  • N'Ko: “ߋߝ߭ߊߙߍߛ ߞߎ߬ߙߎ”
  • N'Ko: “ߋߝ߭ߊߙߍߛ”
  • N'Ko: “ߌߝ߭ߊߙߍߛ”
  • N'Ko: “ߛߜ߭ߊߙߑߡߕߊ߫”
  • N'Ko: “ߞߡߏߟߊ߲ߜ߭ߑߡߊ߫”
  • Narom: “Mont Everest”
  • Nauru: “Etowedudu Everest”
  • Navajo: “Dził Everest”
  • Neapolitan: “Everest”
  • Nepali: “सगरमाथा”
  • Newari: “चोमोलुङ्मा”
  • Newari: “सगरमाथा अञ्चल”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Mount Everest”
  • Northern Frisian: “Mount Everest”
  • Northern Sami: “Mount Everest”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mount Everest”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mount Everest”
  • Norwegian: “Mount Everest”
  • Novial: “Mount Everest”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Mount Everest”
  • Nyanja: “Phiri la Everest”
  • Obolo: “Ogoon̄ Everest”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Mont Everest”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Eferest Beorg”
  • Oriya: “ଏଭରେଷ୍ଟ ଶୃଙ୍ଗ”
  • Oriya: “ଏଭରେଷ୍ଟ”
  • Oriya: “ମାଉଣ୍ଟ ଏଭରେଷ୍ଟ”
  • Ossetian: “Джомолунгмæ”
  • Pa'o Karen: “ကောင်အေဝရဲစ်”
  • Panjabi: “ਐਵਰੈਸਟ ਪਹਾੜ”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਾਗਰਮਥਾ”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਾਊਂਟ ਐਵਰੈਸਟ”
  • Papiamento: “Everest”
  • Persian: “اورست”
  • Persian: “کوه اورست”
  • Picard: “Everest”
  • Piemontese: “Everest”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Evrest”
  • Polish: “Czomolungma”
  • Polish: “Czumulungma”
  • Polish: “Mount Everest”
  • Portuguese: “Everest”
  • Portuguese: “Evereste”
  • Portuguese: “Monte Everest”
  • Portuguese: “Monte Evereste”
  • Pushto: “د ایوریسټ غـر”
  • Quechua: “Apu everest”
  • Quechua: “Chomolungma”
  • Romanian: “Everest”
  • Romansh: “Mount Everest”
  • Russia Buriat: “Жомолунгма”
  • Russian: “гора Джомолунгма (Сагарматха)”
  • Russian: “Джомолунгма (Эверест)”
  • Russian: “Джомолунгма”
  • Russian: “Сагарматха”
  • Russian: “Шэнмуфэн”
  • Russian: “Эверест”
  • Rusyn: “Монт Еверест”
  • Samogitian: “Everests”
  • Sango: “Everest”
  • Sanskrit: “Sagarmāthā”
  • Sanskrit: “एवरेस्ट् शिखरम्”
  • Sanskrit: “चोमोलोङ्मा”
  • Sanskrit: “देवगिरि शिखरम”
  • Sanskrit: “देवगिरि शिखरम्”
  • Sanskrit: “सगरमाथा”
  • Santali: “ᱢᱟᱶᱩᱱᱴ ᱮᱵᱷᱟᱨᱮᱥᱴ”
  • Santali: “ᱢᱟᱶᱴ ᱮᱵᱷᱚᱨᱮᱥᱴ”
  • Saraiki: “ماؤنٹ ایورسٹ”
  • Sardinian: “Everest”
  • Scots: “Mount Everest”
  • Scots: “Munt Everest”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Beinn Everest”
  • Serbian: “Еверест”
  • Serbian: “Комолангма”
  • Serbian: “Маунт Еверест”
  • Serbian: “Монт Еверест”
  • Serbian: “планина Еверест”
  • Serbian: “планина Комолангма”
  • Serbian: “планина Сагармата”
  • Serbian: “планина Чомолубутангма”
  • Serbian: “Сагармата”
  • Serbian: “Чомолангма”
  • Serbian: “Чомолубутангма”
  • Serbian: “Чомолунгма”
  • Serbian: “Џумулангма”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mount Everest”
  • Sicilian: “Everest”
  • Silesian: “Mount Everest”
  • Sindhi: “مائونٽ ايوريسٽ”
  • Sinhala: “එවරස්ට් කන්ද”
  • Slovak: “Mount Everest”
  • Slovenian: “Čomolungma”
  • Slovenian: “Everest”
  • Slovenian: “Mount Everest”
  • Slovenian: “Sagarmatha”
  • Slovenian: “Streha sveta”
  • Somali: “Buurta Everest”
  • Somali: “Buurta Everst”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اورست داغی”
  • Spanish: “Chomolungma”
  • Spanish: “Everest”
  • Spanish: “monte Everest”
  • Spanish: “Monte Everest”
  • Spanish: “Qomolangma Feng”
  • Spanish: “Sagarmatha”
  • Spanish: “Sagarmāthā”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Everest”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴰⴷⵔⴰⵔ ⵏ ⵉⴼⵔⵉⵙⵜ”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵉⴼⵔⵉⵙⵜ”
  • Sundanese: “Gunung Everest”
  • Swahili: “Everest”
  • Swahili: “Mlima Everest”
  • Swedish: “Mount Everest”
  • Swiss German: “Chomolungma”
  • Swiss German: “Everest”
  • Swiss German: “Mount Everest”
  • Swiss German: “Mt. Everest”
  • Swiss German: “Sagarmatha”
  • Swiss German: “Sagarmāthā”
  • Swiss German: “Zhumulangma”
  • Tachelhit: “Ibirist”
  • Tachelhit: “Ivirist”
  • Tagalog: “Bundok Everest”
  • Tajik: “Ҷамолунгма”
  • Tajik: “Ҷомолунгма”
  • Tamil: “எவரெசுட்டு சிகரம்”
  • Tatar: “Джомолунгма”
  • Tatar: “Җомолуңма”
  • Telugu: “ఎవరెస్టు పర్వతం”
  • Telugu: “ఎవరెస్టు”
  • Thai: “เขาเอเวอเรสต์”
  • Thai: “ภูเขาเอฟเวอร์เรส”
  • Thai: “ยอดเขาเอเวอเรสต์”
  • Tibetan: “Qomolangma”
  • Tibetan: “ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Mount Everest”
  • Turkish: “Çomolunma”
  • Turkish: “Dünya’nın en yüksek noktası”
  • Turkish: “Everest Dağı”
  • Turkish: “Everest Tepesi”
  • Turkish: “Everest”
  • Turkish: “Mt. Everest”
  • Turkish: “Peak XV”
  • Turkish: “Sagarmāthā”
  • Turkish: “Zirve XV”
  • Turkmen: “Jomolungma”
  • Uighur: “ئېۋېرېست”
  • Ukrainian: “гора Джомолунґма (Саґарматха)”
  • Ukrainian: “Джомолунгма”
  • Ukrainian: “Еверест”
  • Ukrainian: “Сагарматха”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Mount Everest”
  • Urdu: “ماؤنٹ ایورسٹ”
  • Uzbek: “Jomolungma”
  • Venetian: “Everest”
  • Venetian: “Monte Everest”
  • Veps: “Džomolungm”
  • Vietnamese: “Châu Mục Lãng Mã Phong”
  • Vietnamese: “Chomolungma”
  • Vietnamese: “đỉnh Chomolungma”
  • Vietnamese: “đỉnh Everest”
  • Vietnamese: “Everest”
  • Vietnamese: “núi Chomolungma”
  • Vietnamese: “núi Everest”
  • Vietnamese: “Thánh Mẫu Phong”
  • Walloon: “Everest”
  • Walloon: “Mont Evresse”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bukid Everest”
  • Welsh: “Mynydd Chomolungma”
  • Welsh: “Mynydd Everest”
  • Western Armenian: “Էվերեսթ”
  • Western Frisian: “Everest”
  • Western Frisian: “Mount Everest”
  • Western Panjabi: “ماؤنٹ ایورسٹ”
  • Wu Chinese: “珠穆朗玛峰”
  • Yakut: “Дьомолууҥма”
  • Yakut: “Эверест”
  • Yiddish: “עווערעסט”
  • Yue Chinese: “珠穆朗瑪峰”
  • Yue Chinese: “額菲爾士峰”
  • Zeeuws: “Mount Everest”
  • Zulu: “Mount Everest”
  • “Everest”
  • “Everests”
  • “nena Ewawi”
  • “nena Ewele”
  • “nena ma Ewawi”
  • “nena ma Ewele”
  • “nena ma Sokomata”
  • “nena ma Somolama”
  • “nena ma Sumulama”
  • “nena Sokomata”
  • “nena Somolama”
  • “nena Sumulama”
  • “Tepetl Everest”
  • “माउंट एवरेस्ट”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Mount Everest”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.