Eight-thousanders
The 14 "eight-thousanders", 8,000 m or higher, all in the Himalayas:
- Mount Everest (8,850 m)
- K2 (8,611 m)
- Kangchenjunga (8,586 m)
- Lhotse (8,545 m)
- Makalu (8,462 m)
- Cho Oyu (8,201 m)
- Dhaulagiri (8,167 m)
- Manaslu (8,163 m)
- Nanga Parbat (8,126 m)
- Annapurna (8,091 m)
- Gasherbrum I (8,068 m)
- Broad Peak (8,047 m)
- Gasherbrum II (8,035 m)
- Shishapangma (8,027 m)
Seven summits
The highest mountains of each continent (the Seven Summits):
- Mount Everest, Asia (8,850 m)
- Aconcagua, South America (6,959 m)
- Mount McKinley (Denali), North America (6,194 m)
- Kilimanjaro, Africa (5,895 m)
- Mont Blanc, Europe (4,808 m) or Mount Elbrus, Caucasus (5,642 m)
- Vinson Massif, Antarctica (4,897 m)
- Mount Kosciuszko, Australia (2,228 m) or Carstensz Pyramid, Oceania (4,884 m)
Earth, by continent
Africa
- Ahaggar, Algeria (3,000 m)
- Atlas Toubkal, Marocco (4,165 m)
- Auasberge, Namibia (2,484 m)
- Kompassberg, South Africa (2,500 m)
- Draken Mountains Cathkin Peak, Basuto-South Africa (3,650 m)
- Moco, Angola (2,610 m)
- Mount Cameroon (4,075 m)
- Mount Elgon, Kenya (4,321 m)
- Mount Kenya (5,195 m)
- Kilimanjaro, Kenya-Tanzania (5,895 m) - highest mountain of Africa
- Mount Sinai (2,641 m) - mountain in Egypt where Moses traditionally received the Ten Commandments
- Ras Dashan, Ethiopia (4,620 m)
- Ruwenzori Mount Stanley (5,119 m) - Congo-Uganda
- Ruwenzori Kirunga volcano (4,517 m) - Congo-Ruanda
- Rungwe, Zambia (3,175 m)
- Table Mountain/Tafelberg (1,088 m) - Cape Town, South Africa
- Tibesti, Tschad (3,415 m)
Antarctica
- Mount Albert Markham (4,282 m)
- Mount Erebus ( m)
- Mount Fridtjof Nansen
- Mount Jackson
- Mount Kirkpatrick
- Mount Markham (4,350 m)
- Mount Terror ( m)
- Mount Tyree
- Vinson Massif (4,897 m), highest mountain in Antarctica
Asia
- Adam's Peak (2243 m) - Sri Lanka
- Annapurna - #10 in the world
- Mount Apo (2954 m) - highest point in the Philippines
- Ararat ( m) - Turkish Armenia, landing site, in folkloric elaborations of the biblical account of Noah, of his ark
- Baitou (Paektu) Mountain (2744 m) - highest mountain in Korea, on Chinese/North Korean border
- Belukha (4506 m) - Russia, highest peak in Altai Mountains
- Broad Peak (8047 m) - #12 in the world
- Cho Oyu (8201 m) - #6 in the world
- Demavend ( m) - Iran
- Dhaulagiri (8167 m) - #7 in the world
- Doi Inthanon, highest peak in Thailand
- Mount Everest ( m) - Himalayas, Nepal, highest mountain in the world
- Mount Fuji (3776 m) - famous Japanese volcano
- Gasherbrum I (8068 m) - #11 in the world
- Gasherbrum II (8035 m) - #13 in the world
- Gauri Sankar
- Halla Mountain - volcano; highest peak in South Korea
- K2 (8611 m) - Pakistan, world's second highest, but a tougher climb than Everest, Part of the Himalayas range
- Kamet - Himalayas, first peak over 25,000 ft to be climbed
- Kanchenjunga (8586 m) - #3 in the world, on Nepal-Sikkim border
- Mount Kerinchi - highest point of Barisan Range, Sumatra
- Mount Kinabalu (4093 m) - Sabah (Borneo), Malaysia
- Klyuchevskaya Sopka (4750 m) - Russian volcano
- Lenin Peak (7134 m) - Russia
- Lhotse (8516 m) - #4 in the world, located in Nepal
- Makalu (8462 m) - #5 in the world, located in Nepal
- Manaslu (8156 m) - #8 in the world, located in Nepal
- Muztagh Tower (7273 m)
- Nanda Devi
- Nanga Parbat (8125 m) - #9 in the world, located in Pakistan
- Pumori (7161 m) - Himalayas
- Mount Tambora - Indonesia
- Shishapangma (8013 m) - #14 in the world
Europe
Alps
- Bernina - highest swiss peak of Eastern Alps, Switzerland-Italy (4049 m)
- Dachstein - highest peak of Styria and Austrian Limestone Alps, first vertical climbing 19th century (2997 m)
- Dent Blanche
- Dent du Midi
- Diablerets
- Eiger - Bernese Alps, Switzerland (3970 m)
- Finsteraarhorn - Alps, highest peak of the Bernese Oberland (4274 m)
- Gran Paradiso
- Grand Combin
- Grande Jorasses
- Grossglockner - highest peak of Austria (3797 m)
- Hochkoenig - Austria near Berchtesgaden, Germany (2938 m)
- Jungfrau - Bernese Alps, Switzerland (4158 m)
- Koschuta - Karawanken, Austria-Slovenia - famous climbing peak (2135 m)
- Matterhorn - photo star above Zermatt, Switzerland-Italy (4477 m)
- Mont Blanc - France-Italy (4808 m) - highest mountain of Europe
- Monte Cristallo - Dolomites, South Tyrol-Italy (3199 m)
- Monte Rosa - Western Alps, Italy - Switzerland second highest mountain of Europe(4634 m)
- Mount Elbrus, Caucasus (5642 m) - highest mountain at Europe's border to Asia
- Napf - swiss Flysch Alps (1407 m)
- Ortler - highest peak of South Tyrol, Italy (3902 m)
- Pilatus - near Lucerne, Switzerland (2129 m)
- Rigi - overlooking Lake Lucerne (1797 m)
- Piz Palu
- Schlern - Dolomites, South Tyrol, Italy ( m)
- Schneeberg - highest peak of Lower Austria (2060 m)
- Tödi - swiss Glarus Alps (3620 m)
- Traunstein - photo star at Traun Lake, Upper Austria (1610 m)
- Triglav - highest peak of Slovenia (2864 m)
- Mount Titlis - swiss Urner Alps (3239 m)
- Untersberg - near of Salzburg city (1973 m)
- Weisshorn
- Wetterhorn
- Wildspitze - Oetztaler Alps, Austria (3774 m)
- Zugspitze - Alps - highest point in Germany (2964 m)
Apennines
- Gran Sasso (2912 m) - Italy, highest mountain in the Apennines
Balkans
- Aegaleus - Greece
- Ainos - Greece
- Čvrsnica - Dinarides, Bosnia and Herzegovina (2238 m)
- Dinara - Dinarides, Croatia-Bosnia (Troglav peak 1913 m; Dinara peak 1831 m)
- Hymettus - east of Athens, Greece
- Korab - highest point in Albania
- Montserrat - Spain
- Olympus - legendary home of the Greek gods, also the highest in Greece (2918 m)
- Panachaicus - northernmost mountain of the Peloponnese, east of Patras, Greece
- Parnassus - Greece (2460 m)
- Plevlja, Bosnia-Montenegro (2238 m)
- Šar Planina, Macedonia-Serbia (Kosovo) (2747 m)
- Vergina - Greece
See also: List of mountains in Greece, Greek names of mountains.
Caucasus
- Mount Elbrus (5,642 m) - highest mountain in Caucasus, Russia and at Europe's Asian border
- Mount Kazbek (5,047 m) - second highest mountain in Caucasus
United Kingdom
- Ben Lawers
- Ben Nevis (1,300 m)- highest mountain in United Kingdom
- Snowdon - highest mountain in Wales
- Scafell Pike - highest mountain in England
- Kinder Scout - highest peak in the Peak District
- Mam Tor - England
- Slieve Donnard (850 m) - highest mountain in Northern Ireland
Ireland
Pyrenees
- Pico de Aneto (3404 m) - Spain, highest point in the Pyrenees
Scandinavia
- Galdhøpiggen - highest point in Norway
- Haltitunturi - highest point in Finland
- Kebnekaise - highest point in Sweden
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- Brocken - highest peak of Harz Mts., Eastern Germany (1142 m)
- Etna - dominant volcano on Sicily, Italy (3263 m)
- Grosser Feldberg - Schwarzwald, Germany (1493 m)
- Gerlach Stit - High Tatra, Slovakia-Poland ( m)
- Hekla - Iceland volcano (m)
- Mont Ventoux - France
- Mount Circeo - Italy
- Mount Vesuvius - famous Italian volcano (1270 m)
- Plöckenstein, Böhmerwald - Austria-Czech Republic-Germany (1378 m)
North America
- Mount Adams - Cascades, Washington
- Mount Assiniboine - Canadian Rockies
- Mount Baker - Cascades, Washington
- Mount Baxter - California
- Mount Borah - Idaho
- Bridge Mountain - Red Rock Canyon, Nevada
- Cathedral Peak - California
- Mount Columbia - Canadian Rockies
- Mount Columbia - Colorado
- Mount Dana - California
- Devils Tower - Wyoming
- Mount Diablo - California
- Mount Edith Cavell - Canadian Rockies
- Mount Elbert (4401 m) - Sawatch Range, Colorado, highest point in the Rocky Mountains
- Mount Foraker - Alaska
- Glacier Peak - Cascades, Washington
- Grand Teton - Wyoming
- Mount Greylock - Massachusetts
- Half Dome - California
- Mount Hood - Cascades, Oregon
- Horsetooth Mountain - Colorado
- Iztaccíhuatl (5286 m) - México/Puebla Mexico
- Mount Jefferson - Oregon
- Jobs Peak - Sierra Nevada
- Mount Katahdin - at north end of the Appalachian Trail
- Mount Lassen - Cascades, California
- Mount Logan (5959 m) - highest mountain in Canada, second highest in North America
- Longs Peak - Colorado
- Mammoth Mountain - California
- Maroon Bells - Colorado
- Mount Massive - Sawatch Range, Colorado
- Mauna Loa - Hawaii; see Oceania.
- Mount McKinley or Denali (6194 m) - highest mountain in North America
- Mount Mitchell - highest mountain of the Appalachians
- Mount Monadnock - New Hampshire
- Newberry Volcano - Oregon
- Pico de Orizaba (5610 m) - Puebla/Veracruz, highest point in Mexico
- Mount Olympus - Washington
- Paricutín (3170 m) - Michoacán, Mexico
- Pikes Peak - Colorado
- Popocatépetl (5465 m) - México/Puebla Mexico
- Mount Rainier (4392 m) - Washington
- Mount Robson - Canadian Rockies
- Mount Saint Elias
- San Jacinto Peak (3293 m) - California
- Mount Shasta - California
- Mount Shuksan - Cascades
- Mount St. Helens - active volcano in the Cascades, Washington
- Mount Si - Cascades, short but popular
- Mount Stuart - Cascades, Washington
- Mount Timpanogos - Wasatch Range, Utah
- Three Sisters - Oregon
- Mount Waddington - highest mountain in the Coast Mountains range of British Columbia, Canada
- Mount Washington - highest peak in northeastern United States, worst weather in the world
- Wheeler Peak - highest peak in Nevada
- Mount Whitney (4421 m) - Sierra Nevada, highest mountain in the continental United States
Oceania
- Carstensz Pyramid - New Guinea
- Mauna Loa - Hawaii, a volcanic seamount that is earth's largest mountain, when measured from its base under the ocean.
- Mount Cook - highest mountain in New Zealand
- Mount Keira - mountain in illawarra escarpment
- Mount Kembla - mountain near Unanderra,Wollongong
- Mount Kosciuszko - highest mountain in Australia
- Mount Ruapehu - New Zealand
- Mount Taranaki - New Zealand (also known as Mt. Egmont)
- Mount Wellington - Tasmania, Australia
- Mount Wellington - New Zealand
South America
- Aconcagua - Argentina, highest mountain outside the Himalayas
- Cerro Torre - Patagonia
- Mount Chimborazo - Ecuador
- Cotopaxi - Ecuador
- Pico Cristóbal Colón - Colombia
- Huascaran - highest mountain of Peru
- Illimani - Bolivia
- Nevado del Ruiz - Colombia
- Mount Roraima - Guyana
- Sugar Loaf Mountain - Rio de Janeiro
Extraterrestrial mountains
- List of mountains on the Moon
- List of mountains on Mercury
- List of mountains on Venus
- List of mountains on Mars
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