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There are at least 108 mountains on Earth with elevations of 7,200 metres (23,622 ft) or greater above sea level. The vast majority of these mountains are located on the edge of the Indian and Eurasian plates in China, India, Nepal and Pakistan.
The highest mountains above sea level are also not those with peaks farthest from the centre of the Earth, because the figure of the Earth is not spherical. Sea level closer to the equator is several kilometres farther from the centre of the Earth. The summit of Chimborazo, Ecuador's tallest mountain, is usually considered to be the farthest point from the Earth's centre, although the southern summit of Peru's tallest mountain, Huascarán, is another contender.[3] Both have elevations above sea level more than 2 km less than that of Everest.
Almost all mountains in the list are located in the Himalaya and Karakoram ranges to the south and west of the Tibetan plateau. All peaks 7,000 m (23,000 ft) or higher are located in East, Central or South Asia in a rectangle edged by Noshaq (7,492 m or 24,580 ft) on the Afghanistan–Pakistan border in the west, Jengish Chokusu (Tuōmù'ěr Fēng, 7,439 m or 24,406 ft) on the Kyrgyzstan–Xinjiang border to the north, Gongga Shan (Minya Konka, 7,556 m or 24,790 ft) in Sichuan to the east, and Kabru (7,412 m or 24,318 ft) on the Sikkim–Nepal border to the south.
As of December 2018[update], the highest peaks on four of the mountains — Gangkhar Puensum, Labuche Kang III, Karjiang, and Tongshanjiabu, all located in Bhutan or China — have not been ascended. The most recent peak to have its first ever ascent is Saser Kangri II East, in India, on 24 August 2011.
The highest mountain outside of Asia is Aconcagua (6,961 m or 22,838 ft), the 189th highest in the world.[4]
Rank [dp 1] |
Mountain name(s) |
Height (rounded) [dp 2] |
Prominence (rounded) [dp 3] |
Range |
Coordinates [dp 4] |
Parent mountain [dp 5] |
Ascents before 2004[dp 6] |
Country | ||||
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1st | successful | |||||||||||
m | ft | m | ft | y | n | |||||||
1 |
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8,848 |
29,029 [dp 7] |
8,848 | 29,029 | Mahalangur Himalaya | 27°59′17″N 86°55′31″E / 27.9881°N 86.9253°E | — | 1953 | 145 | 121 | |
2 | K2 | 8,611 | 28,251 | 4,020 | 13,190 | Baltoro Karakoram | 35°52′53″N 76°30′48″E / 35.88139°N 76.51333°E | Mount Everest | 1954 | 45 | 44 | |
3 | Kangchenjunga | 8,586 | 28,169 | 3,922 | 12,867 | Kangchenjunga Himalaya | 27°42′12″N 88°08′51″E / 27.70333°N 88.14750°E * | Mount Everest | 1955 | 38 | 24 |