Mount Karthala
Mount Karthala or Karthola is an active volcano and the highest point of the Comoros at 2,361 m above sea level. It is the southernmost and larger of the two shield volcanoes forming Grande Comore island, the largest island in the nation of Comoros.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Volcano with an elevation of 2,361 metres
- Description: Volcano in Comores
- Also known as: “Comoro Mountain”, “Cratère Karatala”, “Cratère Karthala”, “Karthala”, “Le Kartala”, “Le Karthala”, “Massif du Karthala”, “Mont Kartala”, and “Sommet Kartala”
Mount Karthala
- Categories: shield volcano and landform
- Location: Grand Comore, Comoros, East African Islands, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-11.7585° or 11° 45′ 31″ southLongitude
43.3656° or 43° 21′ 56″ eastElevation
2,361 metres (7,746 feet)Open location code
5HW569R8+H6OpenStreetMap ID
node 339324324OpenStreetMap feature
natural=volcano
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Mount Karthala” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “القرطالة”
- Arabic: “القرطولى”
- Arabic: “جبل القرطالة”
- Basque: “Karthala”
- Bulgarian: “Картхала”
- Catalan: “Karthala”
- Cebuano: “Karthala”
- Chinese: “卡尔塔拉火山”
- Chinese: “蘇蘇瓦山”
- Czech: “Karthala”
- Dutch: “Karthala”
- Finnish: “Karthala”
- French: “Karthala”
- French: “Mont Karthala”
- Galician: “Karthala”
- Georgian: “კართალა”
- German: “Karthala”
- Greek: “Καρτόλα”
- Greek: “Λε Καρταλά”
- Greek: “Όρος Καρτάλα”
- Hausa: “Dutsen Karthala”
- Hebrew: “קרתאלה”
- Hungarian: “Kartala”
- Indonesian: “Gunung Kartala”
- Indonesian: “Gunung Karthala”
- Indonesian: “Kartala”
- Indonesian: “Karthala”
- Indonesian: “كارتالا”
- Italian: “Karthala”
- Japanese: “カーサラ山”
- Japanese: “カルタラ山”
- Korean: “카르탈라 산”
- Korean: “카르탈라산”
- Lithuanian: “Kartala”
- Macedonian: “Картала”
- Malagasy: “Karthala”
- Maore Comorian: “Karthala”
- Mingrelian: “კართალა”
- Moroccan Arabic: “جبل قرطالة”
- Persian: “کوه کارتالا”
- Polish: “Kartala”
- Portuguese: “Karthala”
- Russian: “Картала”
- Slovak: “Karthala”
- Slovenian: “Karthala”
- Spanish: “Karthala”
- Swahili: “Mlima Karthala”
- Swedish: “Karthala”
- Ukrainian: “Картала”
- Urdu: “جبل القرطلہ”
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