Appalachian Mountains
The Appalachian Mountains are a system of mountain ranges running along the eastern coast of North America from Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada in the north to Alabama in the United States in the south.Photo: Ken Thomas, Public domain.
Photo: Ken Thomas, CC0.
Notable Places in the Area
Mount Mitchell
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Mount Mitchell, known in Cherokee as Attakulla, is the highest peak of the Appalachian Mountains and the highest peak in mainland North America east of the Mississippi River.
Mount Craig
Mount Craig, 6,647 feet, is the second highest peak of the Appalachian Mountains and second only to 6,684 feet Mount Mitchell in eastern North America.Appalachian Mountains
- Type: Mountain range
- Description: mountain range in the eastern United States and Canada
- Category: landform
- Location: South Toe Township, Yancey, North Carolina, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
35.75° or 35° 45' northLongitude
-82.25° or 82° 15' westOpen Location Code
867VQQ22+22OpenStreetMap ID
node 4857603223OpenStreetMap Feature
natural=mountain_rangeWikidata ID
Q93332Appalachian Mountains Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Appalache
- Albanian: Appalachian Mountains
- Albanian: Malet Apallaçe
- Albanian: Mallet Apallaçe
- Arabic: Bukid Appalachian
- Arabic: ابلاش
- Arabic: جبال أبالاش
- Arabic: جبال الأبالاش
- Arabic: جبال الابلاش
- Armenian: Ապալաչներ
- Asturian: Apalaches
- Asturian: Montes Apalaches
- Azerbaijani: Appalaç dağları
- Azerbaijani: Appalaçlar
- Azerbaijani: Appalaç silsiləsi
- Bashkir: Аппалачи
- Basque: Appalacheak
- Bavarian: Appalachen
- Belarusian: Апалачскія горы
- Belarusian: Апалачы
- Bhojpuri: अप्लेशियन परबत
- Bosnian: Apalači
- Breton: Appalachoù
- Bulgarian: Апалачи
- Catalan: Apalatxes
- Catalan: Muntanyes Apalatxes
- Catalan: Muntanyes Apalatxianes
- Catalan: Serralada dels Apalatxes
- Cebuano: Appalachian Mountains
- Chinese: Appalachia Soaⁿ-hē
- Chinese: 阿巴拉契亚山
- Chinese: 阿巴拉契亚山脉
- Chinese: 阿巴拉契亚高地
- Chinese: 阿巴拉契亞山脈
- Chinese: 阿帕拉契山
- Chinese: 阿帕拉契山脈
- Croatian: Apalači
- Croatian: Apalači gorje
- Croatian: Apalačko gorje
- Croatian: Appalachian
- Czech: Apalačské hory
- Czech: Apalačské pohoří
- Czech: Appalačské pohoří
- Danish: Appalacherne
- Dutch: Apalachen
- Dutch: Appalachen
- Dutch: Appalachians
- Egyptian Arabic: جبال الابالاش
- English: Apalaches
- English: Appalachians
- English: The Appalachians
- Esperanto: Apalaĉa Montaro
- Esperanto: Apalaĉaj Montoj
- Esperanto: Appalachian Mountains
- Esperanto: Montoj Apalaĉoj
- Estonian: Apalatšid
- Estonian: Apalatši mäestik
- Faroese: Appalachiafjøll
- Faroese: Appalakkufjøll
- Finnish: Appalakit
- French: Alleghanys
- French: Appalache
- French: Appalaches
- Galician: Apalaches
- Galician: Montes Apalaches
- Georgian: აპალაჩები
- German: Appalachen
- Greek: Απαλάχια Όρη
- Greek: Αππαλάχια Όρη
- Hebrew: אפלאצ'ים
- Hebrew: אפלצ'ים
- Hebrew: הרי האפלאצ'ים
- Hebrew: הרי האפלצ'ים
- Hindi: एपलाशियन पर्वतमाला
- Hungarian: Appalache-hegység
- Icelandic: Appalachiafjöll
- Ido: Apalachi
- Inari Sami: Appalakväärih
- Indonesian: Pegunungan Appalachia
- Interlingua: Montanias Appalachian
- Irish: Na Sléibhte Apaláiseacha
- Italian: Appalachi
- Italian: Monti Appalachi
- Italian: Monti Unakas
- Japanese: アパラチア山脈
- Kazakh: Appalaç taw jüýesi
- Kazakh: Аппалач тау жүйесі
- Kazakh: اپپالاتش تاۋ جۇيەسى
- Kirghiz: Аппалачи
- Korean: 애팔래치아 산맥
- Korean: 애팔래치아산맥
- Korean: 애펄레이치언 산맥
- Korean: 애펄레이치언 산줄기
- Ladin: Appalachian Mountains
- Latin: Montes Appalachiani
- Latvian: Apalači
- Latvian: Apalaču kalni
- Lingua Franca Nova: Apalatxia
- Lithuanian: Apalačai
- Lithuanian: Apalačių kalnai
- Lithuanian: Apalačų kalnai
- Luxembourgish: Appalachen
- Macedonian: Апалачи
- Macedonian: Апалачки Планини
- Malay: Banjaran Appalachian
- Malay: Pergunungan Appalachia
- Malayalam: Appalachian Mountains
- Malayalam: അപ്പലേച്ചിയൻ പർവതം
- Malayalam: അപ്പലേച്ചിയൻ പർവ്വതനിരകൾ
- Min Nan Chinese: Appalachia Soaⁿ-lêng
- Mingrelian: აპალაჩეფი
- Northern Frisian: Appalachen
- Norwegian: Appalachene
- Norwegian Bokmål: Appalachene
- Norwegian Bokmål: Appalachians
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Appalachane
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Appalachene
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Appalachian Mountains
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Appalachians
- Occitan (post 1500): Apalaches
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Appalacean Beorgas
- Persian: رشتهٔ کوهٔ آپالیشین
- Persian: رشتهٔ کوهٔ های آپالیشن
- Persian: رشته کوه آپالیشین
- Persian: رشته کوه اپالیشین
- Persian: رشته کوه های آپالیشن
- Persian: رشته کوه های اپالیشن
- Persian: رشته کوهٔ آپالیشین
- Persian: رشتهکوه آپالاش
- Persian: رشتهکوه آپالیشین
- Persian: رشتهکوه اپالیشین
- Persian: رشتهکوهٔ آپالیشین
- Persian: رشتهکوهٔ اپالیشین
- Persian: کوههای آپالیشن
- Polish: Appalachy
- Portuguese: Apalaches
- Portuguese: Cadeia dos Apalaches
- Portuguese: Montanhas Apalaches
- Portuguese: Montes apalaches
- Romanian: Appalachian Mountains
- Romanian: Munţii Apalaşi
- Romanian: Munții Apalași
- Russian: Аппалачи
- Russian: Аппалачские горы
- Russian: Аппалачский каменноугольный бассейн
- Scottish Gaelic: Na Beanntan Appalachian
- Serbian: Apalačke planine
- Serbian: Appalachian
- Serbian: Апалачи
- Serbian: Апалачиан
- Serbian: Апалачке планине
- Serbo-Croatian: Apalači
- Slovak: Apalače
- Slovak: Apalačské vrchy
- Slovak: Appalače
- Slovak: Appalačské vrchy
- Slovenian: Apalači
- Spanish: Apalaches
- Spanish: Montanas Apalaches
- Spanish: Montañas Apalache
- Spanish: Montañas Apalaches
- Spanish: Montes Apalaches
- Swahili: Milima Apalachi
- Swedish: Appalacherna
- Tajik: Appalaci
- Tajik: Аппалачи
- Tajik: Аппалачӣ
- Tamil: ஆப்பலேச்சிய மலைத்தொடர்
- Thai: เทือกเขาแอปพาเลเชียน
- Turkish: Apalaş Dağları
- Turkish: Appalachian Dağları
- Ukrainian: Аппалачі
- Urdu: اپالاچئین پہاڑ
- Uzbek: Appalachi Tog'lari
- Uzbek: Appalachi Tog`lari
- Uzbek: Appalachi Togʻlari
- Uzbek: Appalachi Tog‘lari
- Uzbek: Appalachi tog'lari
- Uzbek: Appalachi tog`lari
- Uzbek: Appalachi togʻlari
- Venetian: Apałachi
- Venetian: Appalachi
- Vietnamese: Appalachian
- Vietnamese: Dãy Appalachia
- Vietnamese: Dãy Appalachian
- Vietnamese: Dãy núi Appalachia
- Vietnamese: Dãy núi Appalachian
- Waray (Philippines): Bukid Appalachian
- Welsh: Mynyddoedd Appalachia
- Western Frisian: Appalachen
- Western Panjabi: اپلیچیئن
- Wu Chinese: 阿巴拉契亚山脉
- Yue Chinese: 阿帕拉契山脈
- Appalasíufjöll
Other Places Named Appalachian Mountains
Localities in the Area
- BusickHamlet
- EskotaHamlet
- HamrickHamlet
- Cattail Creek CommunityHamlet
- GraphiteHamlet
Landmarks in the Area
- Commissary HillPeak
- Higgins BaldPeak
- Little MountainPeak
- Middle Fork Rock Creek FallsWaterfall
- Bear Wallow KnobPeak
Popular Destinations in North Carolina
Escape to a Random Place
About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Appalachian Mountains. Photo: Ken Thomas, CC0.