Mount Kenya

Mount Kenya is an extinct volcano near the centre of , about 150 km north of . At 5,300 m it is Africa's second highest mountain, after Kilimanjaro.
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  • Type: Volcano with an elevation of 5,199 metres
  • Description: African stratovolcano
  • Also known as: “Batian”, “Góra Kenia”, “Keenia vulkaan”, “Keniaberg”, “Kenya mendia”, “Kenyaberg”, “Kilinyaga”, “Kirinjaga”, “Lenana”, “Monte Quênia”, “Monto Kenjo”, “Mount Kenia”, “Mount Kenya National Park”, “Mount Kenya nationalpark och skogsreservat”, “Mount Kenya-Massiv”, “Mount-Kenya-Nationalpark”, “Mt Kenya”, “Mt. Kenya”, “Nejvyšší hora Keni”, “Nelion”, “Park Narodowy Góry Kenia”, “Park Narodowy Kenia”, “Park Narodowy Mount Kenya”, “планина во Кенија”, “الجبل الكيني”, “قمة باتيان”, “کوهٔ کنیا”, and “ケニャ山”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Mount Kenya National Park.

Photo: Sherpa!, CC BY-SA 2.5 nl.
protects the summit and upper slopes of Mount Kenya, Africa's second-highest mountain, in the central highlands of . The extinct volcano rises to 5,199 m at Batian and contains glacier-cut valleys, alpine moorland, high-altitude lakes, montane forest and some of East Africa's most distinctive mountain vegetation.

Mount Kenya

Latitude
-0.1527° or 0° 9′ 10″ south
Longitude
37.3092° or 37° 18′ 33″ east
Elevation
5,199 metres (17,057 feet)
Open location code
6GFVR8W5+WM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 294560693
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­volcano
Geo­Names ID
191421
Wiki­data ID
Q172070
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Mount Kenya” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kenia”
  • Afrikaans: “Mount Kenya”
  • Arabic: “جبل كينيا”
  • Armenian: “Քենիա լեռ”
  • Armenian: “Քենիա”
  • Asturian: “Monte Kenia”
  • Basque: “Kenya”
  • Belarusian: “Гара Кенія”
  • Belarusian: “Кенія”
  • Bengali: “কেনিয়া পর্বত”
  • Breton: “Menez Kenya”
  • Bulgarian: “Кения”
  • Catalan: “Mont Kenya”
  • Cebuano: “Mount Kenya”
  • Central Bikol: “Bukid Kenya”
  • Chinese: “肯亞山”
  • Chinese: “肯尼亚山”
  • Chinese: “肯尼亞山”
  • Chinese: “肯雅山”
  • Croatian: “Mount Kenya”
  • Czech: “Mount Kenya”
  • Danish: “Mount Kenya”
  • Dutch: “Mount Kenya”
  • Esperanto: “Monto Kenja”
  • Estonian: “Keenia mägi”
  • Estonian: “Kenya mägi”
  • Finnish: “Mount Kenya”
  • French: “mont Kenya”
  • French: “Mont Kenya”
  • Galician: “Monte Kenya”
  • Georgian: “კენია”
  • German: “Mount-Kenya-Massiv”
  • Greek: “Όρος Κένυα”
  • Hausa: “Dutsen Kenya”
  • Hebrew: “הר קניה”
  • Hindi: “माउंट केन्या”
  • Hungarian: “Kenya-hegy”
  • Iban: “Gunung Kenya”
  • Icelandic: “Kenýafjall”
  • Indonesian: “Gunung Kenya”
  • Irish: “Sliabh na Céinia”
  • Italian: “Monte Kenya”
  • Japanese: “ケニア山”
  • Kabiyè: “Keniya pʊʊ”
  • Kikuyu: “Kĩrĩnyaga”
  • Kirghiz: “Кения”
  • Korean: “케냐 산”
  • Korean: “케냐산”
  • Ladin: “Mount Kenya”
  • Latin: “Mons Keniae”
  • Latvian: “Kenijas kalns”
  • Lithuanian: “Kenijos kalnas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Mount-Kenya-Massiv”
  • Macedonian: “Кенија”
  • Madurese: “Ghunong Kenya”
  • Malagasy: “Tendrombohitra Kenia”
  • Malay: “Gunung Kenya”
  • Malayalam: “മൗണ്ട് കെനിയ”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “جبل كينيا”
  • Northern Frisian: “Mount Kenya”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mount Kenya”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mount Kenya”
  • Norwegian: “Mount Kenya”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Mont Kenya”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਾਉਂਟ ਕੀਨੀਆ”
  • Persian: “کوه کنیا”
  • Polish: “Kenia”
  • Portuguese: “Monte Quénia”
  • Romanian: “Muntele Kenya”
  • Russian: “Кения”
  • Samogitian: “Kenėjės kalns”
  • Scots: “Moont Kenyae”
  • Serbian: “Kenija”
  • Serbian: “Кенија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mount Kenya”
  • Slovak: “Keňa”
  • Slovak: “Mount Kenya”
  • Slovenian: “Mount Kenya”
  • Somali: “Mount kenya”
  • Spanish: “Monte Kenia”
  • Swahili: “Kirinyaga”
  • Swahili: “Mlima Kenya”
  • Swedish: “Mount Kenya”
  • Tagalog: “Bundok Kenya”
  • Tamil: “கென்யா மலை”
  • Thai: “เขาเคนยา”
  • Thai: “ยอดเขาเคนยา”
  • Turkish: “Kenya Dağı”
  • Ukrainian: “Кенія”
  • Urdu: “کوہ کینیا”
  • Venetian: “Monte Kenya”
  • Vietnamese: “Núi Kenya”
  • Volapük: “Kenyänabel”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bukid Kenya”
  • Welsh: “Mynydd Cenia”
  • Welsh: “Mynydd Kenya”
  • Western Panjabi: “ماؤنٹ کینیا”
  • Wu Chinese: “肯尼亚山”
  • Yue Chinese: “肯雅山”

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