East African mountains: Quick Facts

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Physical map of East Africa showing elevation with color gradients, international boundaries, major cities, rivers, lakes, dams, waterfalls, spot elevations, and active volcanoes. The map covers countries including Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, and Angola, with a locator inset highlighting the region within the African continent.

Acacia trees on the plain below the summits of Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Kibo cone is at right, Mawensi (Mawenzi) at left.

Several hikers make their way across rocky terrain toward Margherita Glacier on Mount Stanley, with rugged peaks and clouds in the background in the Rwenzori Mountains, Uganda.

Dense green banana plants fill the foreground with rolling hills behind, and Mount Nyiragongo partly obscured by clouds in the background near Gisenyi, Rwanda.

Afromontane moorland

A herd of African elephants walks across dry grassland with flat-topped acacia trees, with snow-capped Mount Kilimanjaro rising in the background in Kenya.

Ruwenzori Range

mountain gorilla (Gorilla gorilla beringei)

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Atlas Mountains Drakensberg Rif Ruwenzori Range Tibesti Virunga Mountains High Atlas Simien Mountains Aïr massif Anti-Atlas

Mount Kenya in Mount Kenya National Park is the highest mountain in Africa. UNESCO World Heritage Site. Giant Lobelia in foreground. (Mt. Kenya; Mt. Kenya National Park; mountains; rugged mountain; African geography, African landscape, stratovolcano)

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