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Geography > Highest point: Countries Compared

DEFINITION: Name of country’s highest point.
COUNTRY DESCRIPTION
Afghanistan Noshaq
Albania Maja e Korabit
Algeria Mount Tahat
Andorra Coma Pedrosa
Angola Morro de Môco
Antigua and Barbuda Mount Obama
Argentina Aconcagua
Armenia Mount Aragats
Australia Mawson Peak on Heard Island
Austria Großglockner
Azerbaijan Bazarduzu Dagi
Bahrain Mountain of Smoke
Bangladesh Saka Haphong
Barbados Mount Hillaby
Belarus Dzyarzhynskaya Hara
Belgium Signal de Botrange
Belize Doyle's Delight
Benin Mont Sokbaro
Bhutan Gangkhar Puensum
Bolivia Nevado Sajama
Bosnia and Herzegovina Maglić
Botswana Otse Hill
Brazil Pico da Neblina
Brunei Bukit Pagon
Bulgaria Musala
Burkina Faso Tena Kourou
Burma Hkakabo Razi
Burundi south east of Mount Heha
Cambodia Phnom Aural
Cameroon Fako on Mount Cameroon
Canada Mount Logan
Cape Verde Mount Fogo
Central African Republic Mont Ngaoui
Chad Emi Koussi
Chile Ojos del Salado
China Mount Everest
Colombia Pico Cristóbal Colón or Pico Simón Bolívar
Comoros Le Kartala
Costa Rica Cerro Chirripó
Croatia Dinara
Cuba Pico Turquino
Cyprus Mount Olympus
Czech Republic Sněžka
Democratic Republic of the Congo Margherita Peak on Mount Stanley
Denmark Møllehøj
Djibouti Mousa Ali
Dominica Morne Diablotins
Dominican Republic Pico Duarte
East Timor Pico do Ramelau (Mount Ramelau)
Ecuador Mount Chimborazo
Egypt Mount Catherine
El Salvador Cerro El Pital
Equatorial Guinea Pico Basile
Eritrea Emba Soira
Estonia Suur Munamägi
Ethiopia Ras Dejen
Federated States of Micronesia Dolohmwar (Totolom)
Fiji Tomanivi
Finland Halti
Gabon Mont Bengoué
Georgia Mt'a Shkhara
Germany Zugspitze
Ghana Mount Afadjato
Greece Mount Olympus
Grenada Mount Saint Catherine
Guatemala Volcán Tajumulco
Guinea Mont Nimba
Guinea-Bissau unnamed location in the northeast corner of the country
Guyana Mount Roraima
Haiti Pic la Selle
Holy See (Vatican City) Vatican Hill
Honduras Cerro Las Minas
Hungary Kékes
Iceland Hvannadalshnúkur
India Kangchenjunga
Indonesia Mount Carstensz ( Puncak Jaya )
Iran Damavand
Iraq Cheekha Dar
Ireland Carrauntoohil
Israel Har Meron or Mount Hermon (The southern parts of the mountain are controlled by Israel but are internationally recognized as part of Syria)
Italy Monte Bianco
Jamaica Blue Mountain Peak
Japan Mount Fuji
Jordan Jabal Umm ad Dami
Kazakhstan Khan Tengri
Kenya Batian on Mount Kenya
Kiribati unnamed location on Banaba
Kuwait unnamed location
Kyrgyzstan Jengish Chokusu
Laos Phou Bia
Latvia Gaizinkalns
Lebanon Qurnat as Sawda'
Lesotho Thabana Ntlenyana
Liberia Mount Wuteve
Libya Bikku Bitti
Liechtenstein Grauspitz
Lithuania Aukštojas Hill
Luxembourg Kneiff
Madagascar Maromokotro
Malawi Sapitwa ( Mulanje Massif )
Malaysia Mount Kinabalu
Maldives unnamed location on Villingili Island
Mali Hombori Tondo
Malta Ta'Dmejrek
Marshall Islands unnamed location on Likiep
Mauritania Kediet ej Jill
Mauritius Piton de la Petite Rivière Noire
Mexico Pico de Orizaba
Moldova Dealul Bălăneşti
Monaco Chemin des Révoires , a pathway located on the slopes of Mont Agel
Mongolia Khüiten Peak (Huyten Orgil)
Montenegro Zla Kolata
Morocco Jbel Toubkal
Mozambique Monte Binga
Namibia Konigstein
Nauru Command Ridge
Nepal Mount Everest
Netherlands Mount Scenery (on the Caribbean island of Saba )
New Zealand Aoraki/Mount Cook
Nicaragua Mogoton
Niger Mont Idoukal-n-Taghès
Nigeria Chappal Waddi
North Korea Paektu-san
Norway Galdhøpiggen
Oman Jabal Shams
Pakistan K2
Palau Mount Ngerchelchuus
Panama Volcán Barú
Papua New Guinea Mount Wilhelm
Paraguay Cerro Peró (Cerro Tres Kandú)
Peru Huascarán
Philippines Mount Apo
Poland Rysy
Portugal Ponta do Pico on Pico Island in the Azores
Qatar Qurayn Abu al Bawl
Republic of Macedonia Golem Korab
Republic of the Congo Mont Nabeba
Romania Moldoveanu
Russia Mount Elbrus
Rwanda Mount Karisimbi
Saint Kitts and Nevis Mount Liamuiga
Saint Lucia Mount Gimie
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Soufrière
Samoa Mauga Silisili (Savaii)
San Marino Monte Titano
Saudi Arabia unclear (possibly Jabal Sawda )
Senegal unnamed feature near Nepen Diakha
Serbia Midžor or Đeravica
Seychelles Morne Seychellois
Sierra Leone Mount Bintumani (Loma Mansa)
Singapore Bukit Timah
Slovakia Gerlachovský štít
Slovenia Triglav
Solomon Islands Mount Popomanaseu
Somalia Shimbiris
South Africa Mafadi
South Korea Halla-san (in Jeju Island )
South Sudan Kinyeti
Spain Teide on Tenerife in the Canary Islands
Sri Lanka Pidurutalagala
Sudan Deriba Caldera
Suriname Juliana Top
Swaziland Emlembe
Sweden Kebnekaise
Switzerland Dufourspitze on Monte Rosa
Syria Mount Hermon (Jabal el-Sheikh)
Tajikistan Ismoil Somoni Peak
Tanzania Mount Kilimanjaro
Thailand Doi Inthanon
The Bahamas Mount Alvernia on Cat Island
The Gambia unnamed location
Togo Mont Agou
Tonga unnamed location on Kao Island
Trinidad and Tobago El Cerro del Aripo
Tunisia Jebel ech Chambi
Turkey Mount Ararat
Turkmenistan Aýrybaba
Tuvalu unnamed location on Niulakita
Uganda Margherita Peak on Mount Stanley
Ukraine Hora Hoverla
United Arab Emirates Unnamed knoll west of Jabal Bil Ays
United Kingdom Ben Nevis
United States Mount McKinley
Uruguay Cerro Catedral
Uzbekistan Khazret Sultan
Vanuatu Mount Tabwemasana
Venezuela Pico Bolívar (La Columna)
Vietnam Fan Si Pan
Yemen Jabal an Nabi Shu'ayb
Zambia unnamed location in Mafinga Hills
Zimbabwe Mount Nyangani

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