Mountains
Famous Mountains of the World Quiz
Everest, K2, Kilimanjaro, the Matterhorn and 36 more: find 40 famous mountains of the world on the map, name them from memory, or learn them first.
Every mountain is labelled. Tap or click one (or pick it from the list) to see its height, range, countries and first ascent. Zoom in to see every name.
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Sources and notes
Heights are in metres and feet. Volcano heights, types, last eruptions and eruptions are from the Smithsonian Institution’s Global Volcanism Program (GVP). Other mountains’ heights and first ascents are from official sources, each checked against at least one other; US summits use the US Geological Survey where it has a current figure. Where sources disagree, the mountain’s card says so.
There are two lists of the Seven Summits. Dick Bass, the first to climb them all (in 1985), counted Mount Kosciuszko, the highest in Australia; Reinhold Messner counted Puncak Jaya (Carstensz Pyramid) on New Guinea, the highest in Oceania. Most climbers now use Messner’s list, as the Seven Summits quiz does; Famous Mountains of the World has both. A few lists also swap Elbrus for Mont Blanc, depending on whether the Caucasus counts as Europe.
Other names count: local names and old spellings (Chomolungma, Sagarmatha, Citlaltépetl, Mount McKinley, Mount Cook), and you can add or leave out “Mount”, “Mt” or “Volcano”.
Find on the map: we name a place, you click its marker (or, for a range, its area). Practice gives you three tries and highlights the right part of the map after two misses; Test gives you three tries without hints; Strict gives you one. After the last miss, the answer is shown and the next one comes up.
Where places are too close to tell apart at the zoom you are at (Everest and Lhotse, the Gasherbrums, the Cascades, the Big Island of Hawaiʻi), their markers step apart, with a thin line to the true summit. Zoom in and each marker moves back to its place.
Mountains are placed from their summit coordinates on a world map drawn from official map data.
Maps: official map data
Smithsonian Institution, Global Volcanism Program: Volcanoes of the World
Other heights and first ascents: official sources
US Geological Survey: New elevation for the nation’s highest peak (Denali, 2015)
About these 40 mountains
The list starts with the highest mountain on each continent, the Seven Summits, in both versions: with Puncak Jaya on New Guinea and with Mount Kosciuszko in Australia. Then come three more of the fourteen 8,000 m peaks (K2, Kangchenjunga and Annapurna) and Nanga Parbat.
The rest are the mountains people know by name, for their shape, their story or their climbers: the Matterhorn, the Eiger and Mont Blanc in the Alps, Mount Fuji, Mount Kailash and Mount Olympus, Table Mountain above Cape Town and Sugarloaf above Rio, Fitz Roy in Patagonia and the table-top Mount Roraima, and volcanoes such as Etna, Damavand and Ojos del Salado, the highest volcano on Earth.
The highest on this map
- Mount Everest 8,849 m (29,032 ft)
- K2 8,611 m (28,251 ft)
- Kangchenjunga 8,586 m (28,169 ft)
- Nanga Parbat 8,126 m (26,660 ft)
- Annapurna 8,091 m (26,545 ft)
Heights are the cited sources’; where others disagree, the mountain’s card in the quiz says so.