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Appalachian Mountains

The Appalachian Mountains are a system of mountain ranges running along the eastern coast of from in in the north to in the United States in the south.
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  • Type: Mountain range
  • Description: mountain range in the eastern United States and Canada
  • Also known as: “Apalaches”, “Appalachians”, and “The Appalachians”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mount Mitchell and Mount Craig.

Peak
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is the highest peak of the Appalachian Mountains and the highest peak in mainland east of the . It is located near in , in the subrange of the Appalachians about 19 miles northeast of .

Peak
, 6,647 feet, is the second highest peak of the Appalachian Mountains and second only to 6,684 feet in eastern mainland .

Museum
Photo: Sweeny, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Appalachian Mountains

Latitude
35.75° or 35° 45′ north
Longitude
-82.25° or 82° 15′ west
Open location code
867VQQ22+22
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4857603223
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­mountain_range
Wiki­data ID
Q93332
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Appalachian Mountains” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Appalache”
  • Albanian: “Appalachian Mountains”
  • Albanian: “Malet Apalashe”
  • Albanian: “Mallet Apalaçe”
  • Albanian: “Vargmalet Apalashe”
  • Arabic: “ابلاش”
  • Arabic: “جبال أبالاش”
  • Arabic: “جبال الأبالاش”
  • Arabic: “جبال الابلاش”
  • Armenian: “Ապալաչներ”
  • Asturian: “Apalaches”
  • Asturian: “Montes Apalaches”
  • Azerbaijani: “Appalaç dağları”
  • Azerbaijani: “Appalaç silsiləsi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Appalaçlar”
  • Bashkir: “Аппалачи”
  • Basque: “Appalacheak”
  • Bavarian: “Appalachen”
  • Belarusian: “Апалачскія горы”
  • Belarusian: “Апалачы”
  • Bengali: “অ্যাপালাচীয় পর্বতমালা”
  • Bengali: “অ্যাপালেচিয়ান পর্বতমালা”
  • Bhojpuri: “अप्लेशियन परबत”
  • Bosnian: “Apalači”
  • Breton: “Appalachoù”
  • Bulgarian: “Апалачи”
  • Catalan: “Apalatxes”
  • Catalan: “Muntanyes Apalatxes”
  • Catalan: “Muntanyes Apalatxianes”
  • Catalan: “Serralada dels Apalatxes”
  • Cebuano: “Appalachian Mountains”
  • Central Kurdish: “زنجیرەچیاکانی ئاپالاشیا”
  • Chinese: “Appalachia Soaⁿ-hē”
  • Chinese: “阿巴拉契亚山”
  • Chinese: “阿巴拉契亚山脉”
  • Chinese: “阿巴拉契亚高地”
  • Chinese: “阿巴拉契亞山脈”
  • Chinese: “阿帕拉契山”
  • Chinese: “阿帕拉契山脈”
  • Croatian: “Apalači gorje”
  • Croatian: “Apalači”
  • Croatian: “Apalačko gorje”
  • Croatian: “Appalachian”
  • Czech: “Apalačské hory”
  • Czech: “Apalačské pohoří”
  • Czech: “Appalačské pohoří”
  • Danish: “Appalacherne”
  • Dutch: “Apalachen”
  • Dutch: “Appalachen”
  • Dutch: “Appalachians”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبال الابالاش”
  • Esperanto: “Apalaĉa Montaro”
  • Esperanto: “Apalaĉaj Montoj”
  • Esperanto: “Appalachian Mountains”
  • Esperanto: “Montoj Apalaĉoj”
  • Estonian: “Apalatši mäestik”
  • Estonian: “Apalatšid”
  • Faroese: “Appalachiafjøll”
  • Faroese: “Appalakkufjøll”
  • Finnish: “Appalakit”
  • French: “Alleghanys”
  • French: “Appalache”
  • French: “Appalaches”
  • French: “Les Appalaches”
  • Galician: “Apalaches”
  • Galician: “Montes Apalaches”
  • Georgian: “აპალაჩები”
  • German: “Appalachen”
  • Greek: “Απαλάχια Όρη”
  • Greek: “Αππαλάχια Όρη”
  • Hebrew: “אפלאצ’ים”
  • Hebrew: “אפלצ’ים”
  • Hebrew: “הרי האפלאצ’ים”
  • Hebrew: “הרי האפלצ’ים”
  • Hindi: “एपलाशियन पर्वतमाला”
  • Hungarian: “Appalache-hegység”
  • Icelandic: “Appalachiafjöll”
  • Icelandic: “Appalasíufjöll”
  • Ido: “Apalachi”
  • Inari Sami: “Appalakväärih”
  • Indonesian: “Pegunungan Appalachia”
  • Interlingua: “Montanias Appalachian”
  • Irish: “Na Sléibhte Apaláiseacha”
  • Italian: “Appalachi”
  • Italian: “Monti Appalachi”
  • Italian: “Monti Unakas”
  • Japanese: “アパラチア山脈”
  • Kazakh: “Appalaç taw jüýesi”
  • Kazakh: “Аппалач тау жүйесі”
  • Kazakh: “اپپالاتش تاۋ جۇيەسى”
  • Kirghiz: “Аппалачи”
  • Korean: “애팔래치아 산맥”
  • Korean: “애팔래치아산맥”
  • Korean: “애펄레이치언 산맥”
  • Korean: “애펄레이치언 산줄기”
  • Ladin: “Appalachian Mountains”
  • Latin: “Montes Appalachiani”
  • Latvian: “Apalači”
  • Latvian: “Apalaču kalni”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Apalatxia”
  • Lithuanian: “Apalačai”
  • Lithuanian: “Apalačių kalnai”
  • Lithuanian: “Apalačų kalnai”
  • Luxembourgish: “Appalachen”
  • Macedonian: “Апалачи”
  • Macedonian: “Апалачки Планини”
  • Malagasy: “Appalaches”
  • Malay: “Banjaran Appalachian”
  • Malay: “Pergunungan Appalachia”
  • Malayalam: “Appalachian Mountains”
  • Malayalam: “അപ്പലേച്ചിയൻ പർവതം”
  • Malayalam: “അപ്പലേച്ചിയൻ പർവ്വതനിരകൾ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Appalachia Soaⁿ-lêng”
  • Mingrelian: “აპალაჩეფი”
  • Northern Frisian: “Appalachen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Appalachene”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Appalachians”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Appalachane”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Appalachene”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Appalachian Mountains”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Appalachians”
  • Norwegian: “Appalachene”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Apalaches”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Appalacean Beorgas”
  • Ossetian: “Аппалачтæ”
  • Persian: “رشته کوه آپالیشین”
  • Persian: “رشته کوهٔ آپالیشین”
  • Persian: “رشتهٔ کوهٔ آپالیشین”
  • Persian: “رشته کوه اپالیشین”
  • Persian: “رشته کوه های آپالیشن”
  • Persian: “رشتهٔ کوهٔ های آپالیشن”
  • Persian: “رشته کوه های اپالیشن”
  • Persian: “رشته‌کوه آپالاش”
  • Persian: “رشته‌کوه آپالیشین”
  • Persian: “رشته‌کوهٔ آپالیشین”
  • Persian: “رشته‌کوه اپالیشین”
  • Persian: “رشته‌کوهٔ اپالیشین”
  • Persian: “کوههای آپالیشن”
  • Polish: “Appalachy”
  • Portuguese: “Apalaches”
  • Portuguese: “Cadeia dos Apalaches”
  • Portuguese: “Montanhas Apalaches”
  • Portuguese: “Montes apalaches”
  • Romanian: “Appalachian Mountains”
  • Romanian: “Munţii Apalaşi”
  • Romanian: “Munții Apalași”
  • Russian: “Аппалачи”
  • Russian: “Аппалачские горы”
  • Russian: “Аппалачский каменноугольный бассейн”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Na Beanntan Appalachian”
  • Serbian: “Apalačke planine”
  • Serbian: “Appalachian”
  • Serbian: “Апалачи”
  • Serbian: “Апалачиан”
  • Serbian: “Апалачке планине”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Apalači”
  • Slovak: “Apalače”
  • Slovak: “Apalačské vrchy”
  • Slovak: “Appalače”
  • Slovak: “Appalačské vrchy”
  • Slovenian: “Apalači”
  • Spanish: “Apalaches”
  • Spanish: “Montañas Apalache”
  • Spanish: “Montanas Apalaches”
  • Spanish: “Montañas Apalaches”
  • Spanish: “Montes Apalaches”
  • Swahili: “Milima Apalachi”
  • Swedish: “Appalacherna”
  • Tajik: “Appalaci”
  • Tajik: “Аппалачи”
  • Tajik: “Аппалачӣ”
  • Tamil: “ஆப்பலேச்சிய மலைத்தொடர்”
  • Thai: “เทือกเขาแอปพาเลเชียน”
  • Turkish: “Apalaş Dağları”
  • Turkish: “Appalachian Dağları”
  • Ukrainian: “Аппалачі”
  • Urdu: “اپالاچئین پہاڑ”
  • Uzbek: “Appalachi Tog‘lari”
  • Uzbek: “Appalachi tog’lari”
  • Uzbek: “Appalachi Tog’lari”
  • Uzbek: “Appalachi tog`lari”
  • Uzbek: “Appalachi Tog`lari”
  • Uzbek: “Appalachi togʻlari”
  • Uzbek: “Appalachi Togʻlari”
  • Venetian: “Apałachi”
  • Venetian: “Appalachi”
  • Vietnamese: “Appalachian”
  • Vietnamese: “Dãy Appalachia”
  • Vietnamese: “Dãy Appalachian”
  • Vietnamese: “Dãy núi Appalachia”
  • Vietnamese: “Dãy núi Appalachian”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bukid Appalachian”
  • Welsh: “Mynyddoedd Appalachia”
  • Western Frisian: “Appalachen”
  • Western Panjabi: “اپلیچیئن”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿巴拉契亚山脉”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿帕拉契山脈”
  • “अप्लेशियन परबत”

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