Mount Makalu

Makalu is the fifth-highest mountain on Earth, with a summit at an elevation of 8,485 metres AMSL. It is located in the Mahalangur 19 km southeast of , on the – border.
Wikipedia
Photo: Ben Tubby, CC BY 2.0.
  • Type: Scenic viewpoint
  • Description: mountain in Nepal/China; 5th highest in the world
  • Also known as: “Chomo Lonzo”, “Makalu”, “Makaru”, “Monto Makalu”, “मकाल”, “मकालु 马卡鲁峰”, “মকালু”, “마칼루 산”, and “マカルー山”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: Kangshungtse.

Peak
Photo: Craig Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a peak, which is situated 2½ km north of Mount Makalu.

Mount Makalu

Latitude
27.89144° or 27° 53′ 29″ north
Longitude
87.08844° or 87° 5′ 18″ east
Elevation
8,485 metres (27,838 feet)
Open location code
7MV9V3RQ+H9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 565159946
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­viewpoint
Wiki­data ID
Q169986
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Mount Makalu” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Makalu”
  • Arabic: “جبل ماكالو”
  • Aragonese: “Makalu”
  • Armenian: “Մակալու”
  • Asturian: “Makalu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Makalu”
  • Basque: “Makalu”
  • Belarusian: “Макалу”
  • Bengali: “মাকালু”
  • Bhojpuri: “मकालू”
  • Bosnian: “Makalu”
  • Breton: “Makalu”
  • Bulgarian: “Макалу”
  • Catalan: “Makalu”
  • Cebuano: “Makālu”
  • Chinese: “Mǎkǎlǔ Shān”
  • Chinese: “馬卡魯峰”
  • Chinese: “马卡鲁山”
  • Chinese: “马卡鲁峰”
  • Croatian: “Makalu”
  • Czech: “Makalu”
  • Danish: “Makalu”
  • Dotyali: “मकालु हिमाल”
  • Dutch: “Makalu”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل ماكالو”
  • Esperanto: “Makalu”
  • Estonian: “Makalu”
  • Finnish: “Makalu”
  • French: “Makalu”
  • Galician: “Makalu”
  • Georgian: “მაკალუ”
  • German: “Makalu”
  • Greek: “Μακαλού”
  • Hebrew: “מקלו”
  • Hindi: “मकालू”
  • Hungarian: “Makalu”
  • Icelandic: “Makalu”
  • Ido: “Makalu”
  • Indonesian: “Makalu”
  • Italian: “Makalu”
  • Japanese: “マカルー”
  • Javanese: “Makalu”
  • Kazakh: “Макалу”
  • Korean: “마칼루”
  • Korean: “마칼루산”
  • Kurdish: “Makalu”
  • Kurdish: “ماکالو”
  • Ladin: “Makalu”
  • Latin: “Makalu”
  • Latvian: “Makalu”
  • Lithuanian: “Makalu”
  • Low German: “Makalu”
  • Macedonian: “Макалу”
  • Maithili: “मकालु हिमालय”
  • Malay: “Makalu I”
  • Malayalam: “മകാലു”
  • Marathi: “मकालु”
  • Marathi: “मकालू”
  • Mazanderani: “ماکالو”
  • Mingrelian: “მაკალუ”
  • Nepali: “मकालु हिमाल”
  • Newari: “मकालु”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Makalu”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Makalu”
  • Norwegian: “Makalu”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Makalu”
  • Oriya: “ମକାଳୁ”
  • Ossetian: “Макалу”
  • Persian: “ماکالو”
  • Polish: “Makalu”
  • Portuguese: “Makalu”
  • Romanian: “Makalu”
  • Russian: “Макалу”
  • Scots: “Makalu”
  • Serbian: “Makalu”
  • Serbian: “Макалу”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Makalu”
  • Slovak: “Makalu”
  • Slovenian: “Makalu”
  • Spanish: “Makalu”
  • Sundanese: “Makalu”
  • Swahili: “Makalu”
  • Swedish: “Makalu”
  • Tajik: “Макалу”
  • Tamil: “மக்காலு”
  • Thai: “เขามกาลุ”
  • Turkish: “Makalu”
  • Ukrainian: “Макалу”
  • Urdu: “مکلو”
  • Uzbek: “Makalu”
  • Venetian: “Makalu”
  • Vietnamese: “Makalu”
  • Welsh: “Makalu”
  • Western Panjabi: “مکلو”
  • Wu Chinese: “马卡鲁峰”
  • Yue Chinese: “馬卡魯峰”
  • “nena Makalu”
  • “मकालू”

Places with the Same Name

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Makalu East and Makalu Southeast.

Nearby Places

Places to explore: Chorten and Makalu Base Camp.

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