Where is Kilimanjaro?
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Kilimanjaro - the highest mountain in Africa, beforeThe top of the Kaiser Wilhelm. Kilimanjaro is also a potentially active volcano. Of course, everyone has heard of Mount Kilimanjaro, but not everyone knows where it is. Let's look at the geographical features of Kilimanjaro.
Kilimanjaro, which in Swahili means"sparkling mountain", is located in the north-east of Tanzania, near the border with Kenya. Geographical coordinates of the mountain: 3 ° 04'00 "south latitude, 37 ° 21'33" east longitude.
As we have already said, Kilimanjaro is the highestmountain in Africa, its height is 5,891.8 meters. This value was obtained in 2008, it was measured using GPS and gravimetry. It is worth noting that before this measurement it was believed that the height of the mountain is 5895 meters - this value was obtained by British researchers in 1952.
The mountain is included in the list of seven peaks, in which the highest points of the surface of various parts of the world appear.
Kilimanjaro is the most isolated mountain in the world, it is in the middle of the plain savanna, which surrounds the mountain in a radius of about 5 km.
The area of Kilimanjaro is 388,500 hectares.
Kilimanjaro has three peaks: the highest is Kibo (5891.8 m), the middle is Mavenzi (5149 m) and the lowest is Shira (3962 m).
Potential danger of Kilimanjaro
As we have already said, Kilimanjaro is andvolcano. In 2003, a group of researchers discovered that molten lava is only 400 meters below the crater of the main mountain peak, Kibo. At the moment, gas is thrown out of the crater, other activity is not forecasted, but the last volcanic activity was recorded just 200 years ago.
More about the geographical position of different regions and objects, see the section Location.
