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Southern Rift Valley

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: “Kilinyaga” and “Mount Kenia”

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: “الجبل الكيني”
  • Arabic: “جبل كينيا”
  • Arabic: “قمة باتيان”
  • Armenian: “Քենիա լեռ”
  • Armenian: “Քենիա”
  • Asturian: “Monte Kenia”
  • Basque: “Kenya mendia”
  • Basque: “Kenya”
  • Belarusian: “Гара Кенія”
  • Belarusian: “Кенія”
  • Bengali: “কেনিয়া পর্বত”
  • Breton: “Menez Kenya”
  • Bulgarian: “Кения”
  • Catalan: “Mont Kenya”
  • Catalan: “Munt 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: “Kenija”
  • Croatian: “Mount Kenya”
  • Czech: “Mount Kenya”
  • Czech: “Nejvyšší hora Keni”
  • Danish: “Mount Kenya”
  • Dutch: “Keniaberg”
  • Dutch: “Kenyaberg”
  • Dutch: “Kirinjaga”
  • Dutch: “Mount Kenia”
  • Dutch: “Mount Kenya”
  • Esperanto: “Monto Kenja”
  • Esperanto: “Monto Kenjo”
  • Estonian: “Keenia mägi”
  • Estonian: “Keenia vulkaan”
  • Estonian: “Kenya mägi”
  • Finnish: “Mount Kenya”
  • French: “mont Kenya”
  • French: “Mont Kenya”
  • Galician: “Monte Kenya”
  • Georgian: “კენია”
  • German: “Keniaberg”
  • German: “Mount Kenia”
  • German: “Mount Kenya-Massiv”
  • German: “Mount Kenya”
  • German: “Mount-Kenya-Massiv”
  • German: “Mount-Kenya-Nationalpark”
  • 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 Kenia”
  • Italian: “Monte Kenya”
  • Japanese: “ケニア山”
  • Japanese: “ケニャ山”
  • Kabiyè: “Keniya pʊʊ”
  • Kikuyu: “Kirinyaga”
  • Kikuyu: “Kĩrĩnyaga”
  • Kirghiz: “Кения”
  • Korean: “케냐 산”
  • Korean: “케냐산”
  • Ladin: “Mount Kenya”
  • Latin: “Mons Keniae”
  • Latvian: “Kenijas kalns”
  • Lithuanian: “Kenijos kalnas”
  • Macedonian: “Кенија”
  • Macedonian: “планина во 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”
  • Persian: “کوهٔ کنیا”
  • Polish: “Batian”
  • Polish: “Góra Kenia”
  • Polish: “Kenia”
  • Polish: “Kirinyaga”
  • Polish: “Lenana”
  • Polish: “Mount Kenia”
  • Polish: “Mount Kenya National Park”
  • Polish: “Mount Kenya”
  • Polish: “Nelion”
  • Polish: “Park Narodowy Góry Kenia”
  • Polish: “Park Narodowy Kenia”
  • Polish: “Park Narodowy Mount Kenya”
  • Portuguese: “Monte Kenya”
  • Portuguese: “Monte Quénia”
  • Portuguese: “Monte Quênia”
  • Romanian: “Mount Kenya”
  • 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”
  • Spanish: “Monte Kenya”
  • Swahili: “Kenya”
  • Swahili: “Kirinyaga”
  • Swahili: “Mlima Kenya”
  • Swahili: “Mt Kenya”
  • Swedish: “Kirinyaga”
  • Swedish: “Mount Kenya nationalpark och skogsreservat”
  • Swedish: “Mount Kenya”
  • Swedish: “Mt. Kenya”
  • Tamil: “கென்யா மலை”
  • Thai: “เขาเคนยา”
  • Thai: “ยอดเขาเคนยา”
  • Turkish: “Kenya Dağı”
  • Ukrainian: “Кенія”
  • Urdu: “کوہ کینیا”
  • Urdu: “ماؤنٹ 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”
  • “Kenėjės kalns”

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