Mount Ararat. Mount Ararat, officially Mount A??r??, also known as Masis, is a snow- capped and dormant compound volcano in easternmost Turkey. It consists of two major volcanic cones: Greater Ararat and Little Ararat. Greater Ararat is the highest peak in Turkey and the Armenian highlands with an elevation of 5,137??m (16,854??ft); Little Ararat's elevation is 3,896??m (12,782??ft). The Ararat massif is about 35??km (22??mi) wide at ground base. The first recorded efforts to reach Ararat's summit were made in the Middle Ages, and Friedrich Parrot, Khachatur Abovian, and four others made the first recorded ascent in 1829.
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A??rybaba. Ayribobo or A??rybaba, officially named the Great Saparmyrat Turkmenbashi Peak in Turkmenistan since 2004, is a mountain in Central Asia. At 3,138 metres (10,295??ft) A??rybaba is the highest mountain in Turkmenistan. It is located in the K????tendag Range of the Pamir-Alay chain in the southeast of Turkmenistan on the Uzbekistani border.
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Doi Inthanon. Doi Inthanon is the highest mountain in Thailand. It is in Chom Thong District, Chiang Mai Province. This mountain is an ultra prominent peak, known in the past as Doi Luang Ang Ga or meaning the 'crow's pond top'. Near the mountain's base was a pond where many crows gathered. The name Doi Inthanon was given in honour of Inthawichayanon, Grand Prince of Chiang Mai, who was concerned about the forests in the north and tried to preserve them. After his death, his remains were interred at Doi Luang, which was then renamed in his honour.
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Jebel Jais. Jebel Jais is a mountain of the North-Western Hajar range in the Musandam Governorate of Oman and also in Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates. The summit has an elevation of 1,934??m (6,345??ft). The summit is located on the Omani side, but a high point west of this peak is considered the highest point in the United Arab Emirates, at 1,892??m (6,207??ft) above sea level, and with around 10m of prominence. Since the summit is on the Omani side, Jabal ar Ra???ra???, at 1,691??m (5,548??ft), is the highest peak in the UAE, with significant prominence.
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Ismoil Somoni Peak. Ismoil Somoni Peak is the highest mountain in Tajikistan, as well as the former Russian Empire and Soviet Union before Tajikistan's independence. The mountain is named after Ismail Samani, a ruler of the Samanid dynasty. It is located in the Pamir Range.
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Mount Hermon. Mount Hermon is a mountain cluster constituting the southern end of the Anti-Lebanon mountain range. Its summit straddles the border between Syria and Lebanon and, at 2,814??m (9,232??ft) above sea level, is the highest point in Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
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Yushan Main Peak. Yu Shan or Yushan, Tongku Saveq, Mount Niitaka, and Mount Morrison before Japanese rule, is the highest mountain in Taiwan at 3,952??m (12,966??ft) above sea level, giving Taiwan the 4th-highest maximum elevation of any island in the world. It is the highest point in the western Pacific region outside of the Kamchatka Peninsula. Yushan and its surrounding mountains belong to the Yushan Range. The area was once in the ocean; it rose to its current height because of the Eurasian Plate's movement over the Philippine Sea Plate. Yushan is ranked 40th by topographic isolation.
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Pidurutalagala. Pidurutalagala, or previously Mount Pedro in English, is the highest mountain in Sri Lanka, at 2,524??m (8,281??ft). It is situated North-North-East from the town of Nuwara Eliya and is easily visible from most areas of the Central Province.
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Jabal Sawda. Jabal Soudah is a peak in the Soudah mountains in Saudi Arabia. Jabal Soudah is officially recognized by the Saudi authorities as the highest point in Saudi Arabia, with an elevation of 3,015 metres (9,892??ft), though a 2018 survey measured an elevation of 2,999 metres (9,839??ft), slightly lower than Jabal Ferwa at 3,002 metres (9,849??ft).
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Qurayn Abu al Bawl. Qurain Abu al-Bawl is the highest point of Qatar, with an altitude of 103??metres (338??ft). It is located south of the peninsula near the border to Saudi Arabia.
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Jebel Shams. Jabal Shams or Jebel Shams is a mountain located in northeastern Oman north of the town of Al-Hamra.
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Baekdu Mountain. Mount Paektu or Mount Baekdu (Korean:???????????) is an active stratovolcano on the Chinese???North Korean border. In China, it is known as Changbai Mountain. At 2,744??m (9,003??ft), it is the tallest mountain in North Korea and Northeast China and the tallest mountain of the Baekdu-daegan and Changbai mountain ranges. The highest peak, called Janggun Peak, belongs to North Korea. The mountain notably has a caldera that contains a large crater lake called Heaven Lake, and is also the source of the Songhua, Tumen, and Yalu rivers. Korean and Manchu people assign a mythical quality to the mountain and its lake, and consider the mountain to be their ancestral homeland.
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Hkakabo Razi. Hkakabo Razi is believed to be Myanmar's highest mountain. The 19,295-foot (5,881??m)-tall mountain is the highest mountain in Southeast Asia as well. It is located in the northern Myanmar state of Kachin in an outlying subrange of the Greater Himalayan mountain system near the border tripoint with India and China. Its highest status has recently been challenged by 19,258-foot (5,870??m)-tall Gamlang Razi, located about 4.1 miles (6.6??km) WSW on the Chinese border.
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Mount Kota Kinabalu. Mount Kinabalu is the highest mountain in Malaysia and Maritime Southeast Asia, located on the island of Borneo in Sabah. With a height of 4,095 metres (13,435??ft), it is the third-highest peak of an island on Earth, the 28th-highest peak in Southeast Asia, and 20th-most-prominent mountain in the world. The mountain is located in Ranau district, West Coast Division of Sabah, Malaysia. It is protected as Kinabalu Park, a World Heritage Site.
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Qurnat as Sawda'. Qurnat as Sawd?? (Arabic: ???????????? ??????????????) is the highest point in Lebanon and the Levant, at 3,088??m (10,131??ft) above sea level. It is the summit of Jabal al Makmel, a mountain range in Bsharri, North Lebanon.
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Jengish Chokusu. The Jengish Chokusu is the highest mountain in the Tian Shan mountain system in Central Asia at 7,439 metres (24,406??ft). It lies on the China???Kyrgyzstan border between the Ak-Suu District in the Issyk-Kul Region of far eastern Kyrgyzstan and Wensu County, Xinjiang, China. It is part of the Kakshaal Too, the highest part of the Tian Shan, and is southeast of lake Issyk-Kul. Jengish Chokusu is the 16th most prominent peak on Earth.
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Khan Tengri. Khan Tengri is a mountain of the Tian Shan mountain range in Central Asia. It is on the China???Kyrgyzstan???Kazakhstan tripoint, east of lake Issyk Kul in Kyrgyzstan. Its geologic elevation is 6,995??m (22,949??ft), but its glacial icecap rises to 7,010??m (22,999??ft). For this reason, in mountaineering circles, including for the Snow Leopard award criteria, it is considered a 7,000-metre peak.
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Jabal Umm ad Dami. Jabal Umm ad Dami, in historic Wadi Rum, is the highest mountain in Jordan. Its claimed elevation of 1,854 metres is consistent with SRTM data. It is located at 29??18???30???N 35??25???45???E, near to the border with Saudi Arabia in the Aqaba Governorate of Jordan.
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Mount Fuji. Mount Fuji is an active stratovolcano located on the Japanese island of Honshu, with a summit elevation of 3,776.24??m. It is the highest mountain in Japan, the second-highest volcano on any Asian island, and the seventh-highest peak of an island on Earth. Mount Fuji last erupted from 1707 to 1708.
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Meron. Mount Meron, also known as Mount Jarmaq or Jebel Jarmaq, is a mountain in the Upper Galilee region of Israel. It has special significance in Jewish religious tradition and parts of it have been declared a nature reserve. At 1,204 metres (3,950??ft) above sea level, Mount Meron is the highest peak in Israel within the Green Line. The mountain is a major motif in the art of the artists' quarter of Safed.
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Cheekha Dar. Cheekha Dar, which means Black Tent, is the local Kurdish name for the mountain, located in Kurdistan Region of Iraq, currently thought to be the highest in Iraq. It is claimed to be 3,611??m (11,847??ft) high in the CIA World Factbook. It is 6??km (3.7??mi) north of the village of Gundah Zhur and is on the border with Iran.
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Damavand. Mount Damavand is a dormant stratovolcano in Iran. It is the highest peak in Iran and Western Asia, the highest volcano in Asia, and the 3rd highest volcano in the Eastern Hemisphere, at an elevation of 5,609 metres (18,402??ft). Dam??vand has a special place in Persian mythology and folklore. It is in the middle of the Alborz range, adjacent to Var??r??, Sesang, Gol-e Zard, and M????nr??d. It is near the southern coast of the Caspian Sea, in Amol County, Mazandaran Province, 66??km (41??mi) northeast of the city of Tehran.
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Puncak Jaya. Puncak Jaya or Carstensz Pyramid on the island of New Guinea, with an elevation of 4,884??m (16,024??ft), is the highest mountain peak of an island on Earth, and the highest peak in Indonesia and within Oceania. The mountain is located in the Sudirman Range of the highlands of Mimika Regency, Central Papua, Indonesia. Puncak Jaya is ranked 5th in the world by topographic isolation.
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Kanchenjunga. Kangchenjunga is the third-highest mountain in the world. Its summit lies at 8,586??m (28,169??ft) in a section of the Himalayas, the Kangchenjunga Himal, which is bounded in the west by the Tamur River, in the north by the Lhonak River and Jongsang La, and in the east by the Teesta River. It lies in the border region between Koshi Province of Nepal and Sikkim state of India, with the West and Kangbachen peaks located in Nepal's Taplejung District and the Main, Central and South peaks directly on the border.
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