Mount Kilimanjaro

Mount Kilimanjaro is an inactive stratovolcano in , near the border with . At 5,895 m above sea level, Kilimanjaro is Africa's highest peak and the world's highest free-standing mountain.
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  • Type: Peak with an elevation of 5,895 metres
  • Description: mountain massif in Kilimanjaro National Park in Tanzania
  • Also known as: “Kilima-Njaro”, “Kilimanjaro”, “Mount Kilimawn”, “Mt Kilimanjaro”, and “Mt. Kilimanjaro”
Photo: Muhammad Mahdi Karim, GFDL.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Furtwängler Glacier and Mount Kibo.

Glacier
Photo: Yosemite, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is located near the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in . The glacier is named after Walter Furtwängler who, with Siegfried König, formed the fourth party to ascend to the summit of Kilimanjaro in 1912.

Volcano
Photo: Yosemite, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a volcano.

Mount Kilimanjaro

Latitude
-3.0643° or 3° 3′ 52″ south
Longitude
37.3585° or 37° 21′ 31″ east
Elevation
5,895 metres (19,341 feet)
IATA airport code
JRO
Open location code
6G8VW9P5+7C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 12115927928
Geo­Names ID
157452
Wiki­data ID
Q7296
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Mount Kilimanjaro” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kilimandjaro”
  • Albanian: “Kilimanxharo”
  • Amharic: “ኪሊማንጃሮ”
  • Arabic: “جبل الكيليمنجارو”
  • Arabic: “جبل كليمانجارو”
  • Arabic: “جبل كليمنجارو”
  • Arabic: “جبل كيليمانجارو”
  • Arabic: “كلمنجاروا”
  • Arabic: “كيليمانجارو”
  • Aragonese: “Kilimanjaro”
  • Armenian: “Կիլիմանջարո”
  • Assamese: “মাউণ্ট কিলিমাঞ্জাৰ‘”
  • Assamese: “মাউণ্ট কিলিমাঞ্জাৰ’”
  • Assamese: “মাউণ্ট কিলিমাঞ্জাৰ”
  • Asturian: “Kilimanjaro”
  • Asturian: “monte Kilimanjaro”
  • Asturian: “Monte Kilimanjaro”
  • Avaric: “Килиманджаро (мегӀер)”
  • Avaric: “Килиманджаро”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kilimancaro”
  • Balinese: “Gunung Kilimanjaro”
  • Bashkir: “Килиманджаро”
  • Basque: “Kilimanjaro”
  • Bavarian: “Kilimandscharo”
  • Belarusian: “Гара Кіліманджара”
  • Belarusian: “Кіліманджара”
  • Bengali: “কিলিমাঞ্জারো”
  • Bosnian: “Kilimandžaro”
  • Bosnian: “Kilimanjaro”
  • Breton: “Kilimanjaro”
  • Bulgarian: “Килиманджаро”
  • Burmese: “ကီလီမန်ဂျာရိုတောင်”
  • Catalan: “Kilimanjaro”
  • Cebuano: “Kilimanjaro”
  • Central Bikol: “Bukid Kilimanjaro”
  • Central Kurdish: “چیای کیلیمانجارۆ”
  • Chechen: “Килиманджаро”
  • Chinese: “Kilimanjaro Soaⁿ”
  • Chinese: “乞力馬扎羅山”
  • Chinese: “乞力马扎罗山”
  • Chinese: “吉力馬扎羅山”
  • Cornish: “Kilimanjaro”
  • Corsican: “Chilimangiaru”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Kilimancaro”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Kіlіmancaro”
  • Croatian: “Kilimandžaro”
  • Czech: “Kilimandžáro”
  • Czech: “nejvyšší hora Afriky”
  • Dagbani: “Mount Kilimanjaro”
  • Danish: “Kilimanjaro”
  • Dhivehi: “ކިލިމަންޖާރޯ ފަރުބަދަ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Koyê Kilimanjaroyi”
  • Dutch: “Kilimanjaro”
  • Eastern Mari: “Килиманджаро”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل كليمنجارو”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كيليمانجارو”
  • Esperanto: “Kilimanĝaro”
  • Estonian: “Kilimanjaro”
  • Faroese: “Kilimanjaro”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Mount Kilimanjaro”
  • Finnish: “Kilimanjaro”
  • French: “Kilimandjaro”
  • French: “Kilimanjaro”
  • Galician: “Kilimanjaro”
  • Ganda: “Kilimanjaro”
  • Georgian: “კილიმანჯარო”
  • German: “Kilima-Ndscharo”
  • German: “Kilimandscharo-Massiv”
  • German: “Kilimandscharo”
  • German: “Kilimanjaro”
  • Gorontalo: “Hu’idu Kilimanjaro”
  • Greek: “Κιλιμάντζαρο”
  • Guarani: “Kilimãháro”
  • Guarani: “Kilimãjáro”
  • Guarani: “Kilimanjaro”
  • Guarani: “Kilimanjáro”
  • Gun: “Osó Kilimanjaro”
  • Haitian: “Kilimanjaro”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kilimanjaro Sân”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kit-li̍t-mâ-chap-lò Sân”
  • Hausa: “Dutsen Kilimanjaro”
  • Hebrew: “קילימנג’רו”
  • Hebrew: “קילימנגרו”
  • Hindi: “किलिमंजार hiahwjamaja”
  • Hindi: “किलिमंजारो”
  • Hindi: “किलिमांजारो पर्वत”
  • Hindi: “किलिमांजारो”
  • Hindi: “कीलीमनजारो”
  • Hungarian: “Kilimandzsáró”
  • Icelandic: “Kilimanjaro”
  • Ido: “Kilimanjaro”
  • Iloko: “Bantay Kilimanjaro”
  • Iloko: “Kilimanjaro”
  • Indonesian: “Gunung Kilimanjaro”
  • Indonesian: “Kilimanjaro”
  • Interlingua: “Kilimanjaro”
  • Interlingua: “Monte Kilimanjaro”
  • Irish: “Kilimanjaro”
  • Italian: “Chilimangiaro”
  • Italian: “Kilimangiaro”
  • Japanese: “キリマンジャロ”
  • Javanese: “Gunung Kilimanjaro”
  • Kabiyè: “Kilimanjaroo pʋʋ”
  • Kabyle: “Kilimanǧaru”
  • Kannada: “ಕಿಲಿಮಂಜಾರೊ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Kilimandjaro”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Килиманджаро”
  • Kazakh: “Килиманджаро”
  • Kikuyu: “Mount Kilimajaro”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Umusozi wa Kilimanjaro”
  • Kirghiz: “Килиманжаро”
  • Korean: “킬리만자로 산”
  • Korean: “킬리만자로산”
  • Kotava: “Kilimanjaro (mefta)”
  • Kotava: “Kilimanjaro”
  • Kurdish: “Çiyayê Kilîmanjaro”
  • Ladin: “Mount Kilimanjaro”
  • Latin: “Kilimandiarus”
  • Latvian: “Kilimandžāro”
  • Lezghian: “Килиманджаро”
  • Limburgan: “Kilimanjaro”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Kilimanjaro”
  • Literary Chinese: “乞力馬扎羅山”
  • Lithuanian: “Kilimandžaras”
  • Lombard: “Kilimanjaro”
  • Low German: “Kilimandscharo”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kilimandscharo”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kilimanjaro”
  • Macedonian: “Килиманџаро”
  • Malagasy: “Kilimandjaro”
  • Malagasy: “Kilimanjaro”
  • Malay: “Gunung Kilimanjaro”
  • Malayalam: “കിളിമഞ്ചാരോ കൊടുമുടി”
  • Maori: “Kilimanjaro te maunga”
  • Marathi: “किलीमांजारो पर्वत”
  • Marathi: “माउंट किलीमांजारो”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kilimanjaro Soaⁿ”
  • Minangkabau: “Gunuang Kilimanjaro”
  • Minangkabau: “Kilimanjaro”
  • Mingrelian: “კილიმანჯარო”
  • Mongolian: “Килиманжаро”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “جبل كيليمينجارو”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “كيليمينجارو”
  • Navajo: “Dził Kilimanjaro”
  • Nepali: “किलिमन्जारो हिमाल”
  • Nepali: “किलिमान्जारो”
  • Newari: “च्वका किलिम्यान्जेरो”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kilimandscharo”
  • Northern Sami: “Kilimanjaro”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kilimanjaro”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kilimanjaro”
  • Norwegian: “Kilimanjaro”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Mount Kilimanjaro”
  • Obolo: “Ogoon̄ Kilimanjaro”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kilimanjaro”
  • Oromo: “Kilimanjaaroo”
  • Oromo: “Kilimanjaro”
  • Ossetian: “Килиманджаро”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਿਲੀਮੰਜਾਰੋ”
  • Persian: “کلیمانجارو”
  • Picard: “Kilimandjaro”
  • Piemontese: “Kilimangiaro”
  • Polish: “Kilimandżaro”
  • Portuguese: “Kilimanjaro”
  • Portuguese: “Quilimanjaro”
  • Quechua: “Kilimanjaro”
  • Romanian: “Kilimanjaro”
  • Romansh: “Kilimandscharo”
  • Russia Buriat: “Килиманджаро”
  • Russian: “Килиманджаро”
  • Rusyn: “Кіліманджаро”
  • Samogitian: “Kėlėmandžars”
  • Scots: “Moont Kilimanjaro”
  • Scots: “Mount Kilimanjaro”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Kilimanjaro”
  • Serbian: “Килиманџаро”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kilimandžaro”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kilimanjaro”
  • Shona: “Kilimanjaro”
  • Sicilian: “Kilimangiaru”
  • Silesian: “Kilimandżaro”
  • Sindhi: “ڪليمنجارو”
  • Sinhala: “කිලිමන්ජාරෝ කන්ද”
  • Slovak: “Kilimandžáro”
  • Slovak: “Uhuru”
  • Slovenian: “Kilimandžaro”
  • Somali: “Kilimanjaaro”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کلیمانجارو”
  • South Ndebele: “Intaba iKilimanjaro”
  • Spanish: “Kilimanjaro”
  • Sundanese: “Kilimanjaro”
  • Swahili: “Kilima-Njaro”
  • Swahili: “Kilimanjaro”
  • Swahili: “Mount Kilimawn”
  • Swahili: “Mt Kilimanjaro”
  • Swahili: “Mt. Kilimanjaro”
  • Swedish: “Kilimanjaro”
  • Swiss German: “Kilimandscharo”
  • Tagalog: “Kilimanjaro”
  • Tajik: “Килиманҷаро”
  • Talysh: “Kilimənčəro”
  • Tamil: “கிளிமஞ்சாரோ மலை”
  • Tatar: “Kilimancaro”
  • Telugu: “కిలిమంజారో పర్వతం”
  • Tetum: “Kilimanjaru”
  • Thai: “เขาคิลิมันจาโร”
  • Thai: “ยอดเขาคิลิมันจาโร”
  • Tibetan: “རི་བོ་ཆི་ལི་མ་ཀྲ་ལུའོ།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Kilimandscharo”
  • Tumbuka: “Phiri la Kilimanjaro”
  • Turkish: “Kilimanjaro Dağı”
  • Turkish: “Kilimanjaro”
  • Turkmen: “Kilimanjaro”
  • Tyap: “A̱fan Kilimajaro”
  • Uighur: “كىلىمانجارو تېغى”
  • Ukrainian: “Кібо”
  • Ukrainian: “Кіліманджаро”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Kilimandźaro”
  • Urdu: “کلیمنجارو”
  • Uzbek: “Kilimanjaro”
  • Venetian: “Kilimanjaro”
  • Veps: “Kilimandžaro”
  • Vietnamese: “Núi Kilimanjaro”
  • Volapük: “Kilimanjaro”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bukid Kilimanjaro”
  • Welsh: “Kilimanjaro”
  • Western Panjabi: “کلیمنجارو”
  • Wu Chinese: “乞力马扎罗山”
  • Yakut: “Килиманджаро”
  • Yiddish: “קילימאנדזשארא”
  • Yue Chinese: “吉力馬扎羅山”
  • Zulu: “IMount Kilimanjaro”
  • “Kėlėmandžars”
  • “Kilimanjaro”
  • “nena Kilimansalo”

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