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List of mountains

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)
Mount Elbrus, Europe (5,642 m) (or Mont Blanc (4,810 m))
Vinson Massif, Antarctica (4,897 m)
Mount Kosciuszko, Australia (2,228 m) (or Carstensz Pyramid, Oceania (4,884 m))

Table of contents

1 Eight-thousanders
2 Earth, by continent

2.1 Africa
2.2 Antarctica
2.3 Asia
2.4 Europe

2.4.1 Alps
2.4.2 Caucasus
2.4.3 Great Britain
2.4.4 to be categorised

2.5 North America
2.6 Oceania
2.7 South America

3 Extraterrestrial mountains

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)

Cameroon Mountain
Mount Elgon
Mount Kenya
Mount Kilimanjaro - Tanzania, highest mountain of Africa
Mount Sinai - mountain in Egypt where Moses traditionally received the Ten Commandments
Mount Stanley - Ruwenzori Range
Table Mountain - Cape Town, South Africa

Adam's Peak - Sri Lanka
Annapurna - #10 in the world
Mount Apo - highest point in Philippines
Ararat - Turkish Armenia, landing site, in folkloric elaborations of the biblical account of Noah, of his ark
Baitou (Paektu) Mountain - highest mountain in Korea, on Chinese/North Korean border
Belukha - Russia, highest peak in Altai Mountains
Broad Peak (8047m) - #12 in the world
Cho Oyu (8201m) - #6 in the world
Demavend - Iran
Dhaulagiri (8167m) - #7 in the world
Doi Inthanon, highest peak in Thailand
Mount Everest - Himalayas, Nepal, highest mountain in the world
Mount Fuji - famous Japanese volcano
Gasherbrum I (8068m) - #11 in the world
Gasherbrum II (8035m) - #13 in the world
Gauri Sankar
Halla Mountain - volcano; highest peak in South Korea
K2 (8611m) - 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 (8586m) - #3 in the world, on Nepal-Sikkim border
Mount Kerinchi - highest point of Barisan Range, Sumatra
Klyuchevskaya Sopka - Russian volcano
Mount Kinabalu - Sabah (Borneo), Malaysia
Lenin Peak - Russia
Lhotse (8516m) - #4 in the world, located in Nepal
Makalu (8462m) - #5 in the world, located in Nepal
Manaslu (8156m) - #8 in the world, located in Nepal
Muztagh Tower
Nanda Devi
Nanga Parbat (8125m) - #9 in the world, located in Pakistan
Mount Tambora - Indonesia
Shishapangma (8013m) - #14 in the world

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 - New Zealand
Mount Kosciuszko - highest mountain in Australia
Mount Ruapehu - New Zealand
Mount Taranaki - New Zealand (also known as Mt. Egmont)

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