Tibesti Mountains
The Tibesti Mountains are a volcanic mountain range in Saharan Chad. A small portion juts into southern Libya. This is about as remote as you get. You want a travel challenge? Here's your travel challenge.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Tibesti Mountains
- Type: Rock
- Description: mountain range in the Sahara desert of Africa
- Categories: mountain range and landform
- Location: Saharan Chad, Chad, Sahel, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
21.4307° or 21° 25' 51" northLongitude
17.8222° or 17° 49' 20" eastOpen Location Code
7FHVCRJC+7VOpenStreetMap ID
way 1214696410OpenStreetMap Feature
natural=bare_rockWikidata ID
Q309104Tibesti Mountains Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Tibesti
- Arabic: تبيستي
- Arabic: جبال تيبستي
- Arabic: جبل تيبستي
- Basque: Tibesti
- Belarusian: Тыбесты
- Breton: Тибести
- Bulgarian: Тибести
- Catalan: Tibesti
- Cebuano: Tibesti
- Chinese: 提貝斯提高原
- Chinese: 提贝斯提高原
- Czech: Tibesti
- Danish: Tibesti-bjergene
- Danish: Tibesti
- Danish: Tibestibjergene
- Dutch: Tibesti
- Dutch: Tibestigebergte
- Egyptian Arabic: جبال تيبستى
- English: Tibesti
- Finnish: Tibesti
- Finnish: Tibestivuoristo
- French: Massif du Tibesti
- French: massif du Tibesti
- Georgian: ტიბესტი
- Georgian: ტიბესტის მთიანეთი
- German: Tibesti
- German: Tibestigebirge
- Greek: Τιμπέστι
- Hebrew: הרי טיבסטי
- Hebrew: השדה הגעשי טיבסטי
- Hindi: तीबेस्ती पहाड़ियाँ
- Hungarian: Tibeszti
- Iloko: Banbantay Tibesti
- Indonesian: Pegunungan Tibesti
- Indonesian: Tibesti
- Italian: Massiccio del Tibesti
- Italian: Tibesti
- Japanese: チベスチ山地
- Japanese: チベスチ山脈
- Japanese: ティベスティ山地
- Korean: 티베스티산맥
- Ladin: Crëps de Tibesti
- Lao: Banbantay Tibesti
- Latin: Tibesti
- Lithuanian: Tibestis
- Northern Frisian: Tibestiberger
- Norwegian: Tibesti
- Norwegian Bokmål: Tibesti
- Occitan (post 1500): Tibesti
- Persian: کوهستان تبیستی
- Persian: کوهستان تیبستی
- Polish: Tibasti
- Polish: Tibesti
- Polish: Tibisti
- Polish: Wyżyna Tibesti
- Portuguese: Montanhas Tibesti
- Portuguese: Montes Tibesti
- Portuguese: Tibesti
- Portuguese: Vulcão Tibesti
- Romanian: Tibesti
- Russian: Нагорье Тибести
- Russian: Тибести
- Serbian: Тибести
- Serbo-Croatian: Tibesti
- Slovak: Tibesti
- Spanish: Macizo de Tibesti
- Spanish: Montanas Tibesti
- Spanish: Montanas del Tibesti
- Spanish: Montañas Tibesti
- Spanish: Montañas del Tibesti
- Spanish: Tibesti
- Swahili: Tibesti
- Swedish: Tibesti
- Swedish: Tibestibergen
- Ukrainian: Тібесті
- Ukrainian: Тібетсі
- Venetian: Tibesti
- Vietnamese: Dãy núi Tibesti
- Western Frisian: Tibesti-massyf
- Western Frisian: Tibesty berchtme
- Western Frisian: Tibestyberchtme
Localities in the Area
- OmschiHamlet, 10 km southeast
- OmouVillage, 26 km east
- TorotoromHamlet, 28 km southwest
- TommiVillage, 32 km northwest
- Yebbi-SoumaHamlet, 35 km south
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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 Tibesti Mountains. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.