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Tibesti Mountains

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  • Type: Rock
  • Description: mountain range in the Sahara desert of Africa
  • Also known as: “Tibesti”

Tibesti Mountains

Latitude
21.4307° or 21° 25′ 51″ north
Longitude
17.8222° or 17° 49′ 20″ east
Open location code
7FHVCRJC+7V
Open­Street­Map ID
way 1214696410
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­bare_rock
Wiki­data ID
Q309104
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Satellite Map

Discover Tibesti Mountains from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Western Frisian—“Tibesti Mountains” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Tibesti”
  • Arabic: “تبيستي”
  • Arabic: “جبال تيبستي”
  • Arabic: “جبل تيبستي”
  • Armenian: “Թիբեսթ”
  • Armenian: “Տիբեստի բարձրավանդակ”
  • Basque: “Tibesti”
  • Belarusian: “Тыбесты”
  • Breton: “Тибести”
  • Bulgarian: “Тибести”
  • Catalan: “Tibesti”
  • Cebuano: “Tibesti”
  • Chinese: “提貝斯提高原”
  • Chinese: “提贝斯提高原”
  • Czech: “Tibesti”
  • Danish: “Tibesti-bjergene”
  • Danish: “Tibesti”
  • Danish: “Tibestibjergene”
  • Dutch: “Tibesti”
  • Dutch: “Tibestigebergte”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبال تيبستى”
  • Finnish: “Tibesti”
  • Finnish: “Tibestivuoristo”
  • French: “massif du Tibesti”
  • French: “Massif du Tibesti”
  • Georgian: “ტიბესტი”
  • Georgian: “ტიბესტის მთიანეთი”
  • German: “Tibesti”
  • German: “Tibestigebirge”
  • Greek: “Τιμπέστι”
  • Hebrew: “הרי טיבסטי”
  • Hebrew: “השדה הגעשי טיבסטי”
  • Hindi: “तीबेस्ती पहाड़ियाँ”
  • Hungarian: “Tibeszti”
  • Iloko: “Banbantay Tibesti”
  • Indonesian: “Pegunungan Tibesti”
  • Indonesian: “Tibesti”
  • Italian: “Massiccio del Tibesti”
  • Italian: “Tibesti”
  • Japanese: “チベスチ山地”
  • Japanese: “チベスチ山脈”
  • Japanese: “ティベスティ山地”
  • Korean: “티베스티산맥”
  • Ladin: “Crëps de Tibesti”
  • Latin: “Tibesti”
  • Lithuanian: “Tibestis”
  • Northern Frisian: “Tibestiberger”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tibesti”
  • Norwegian: “Tibesti”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tibesti”
  • Persian: “کوهستان تبیستی”
  • Persian: “کوهستان تیبستی”
  • Polish: “Tibasti”
  • Polish: “Tibesti”
  • Polish: “Tibisti”
  • Polish: “Wyżyna Tibesti”
  • Portuguese: “Montanhas Tibesti”
  • Portuguese: “Montes Tibesti”
  • Portuguese: “Tibesti”
  • Portuguese: “Vulcão Tibesti”
  • Romanian: “Tibesti”
  • Russian: “Нагорье Тибести”
  • Russian: “Тибести”
  • Serbian: “Тибести”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tibesti”
  • Slovak: “Tibesti”
  • Slovenian: “Tibesti”
  • Spanish: “Macizo de Tibesti”
  • Spanish: “Montanas del Tibesti”
  • Spanish: “Montañas del Tibesti”
  • Spanish: “Montanas Tibesti”
  • Spanish: “Montañas Tibesti”
  • Spanish: “Tibesti”
  • Swahili: “Tibesti”
  • Swedish: “Tibesti”
  • Swedish: “Tibestibergen”
  • Ukrainian: “Тібесті”
  • Ukrainian: “Тібетсі”
  • Venetian: “Tibesti”
  • Vietnamese: “Dãy núi Tibesti”
  • Western Frisian: “Tibesti-massyf”
  • Western Frisian: “Tibesty berchtme”
  • Western Frisian: “Tibestyberchtme”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Tibesti Mountains”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.