Mount Bahaya (

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: ''Buurta Baxaya'', sometimes spelled Mount Bahaja), also known as Mount Bahaya, is the fourth-tallest

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, after the triple-peaked mountains

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, Mount Surud Cad, and Mount Warraq. It is the only

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in the country with a summit of about . It is located in the northern Bari region, east of

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, close to the

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. The exact elevation is uncertain, being either , , or . According to one 1974 map from the

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, it could even be in height. With a prominence of 1,543 to 1,613 meters, it is an

, making it the 74th to 58th most prominent peak in Africa, and the only definite one in the country of Somalia. The taller Mount Shimbiris could be an Ultra-prominent peak as well, with a measured prominence of . The mountain is highly elongated in a northwest-southeast direction, leading some to list the southern and northern ends as Bahaya and Karkoor, respectively. Mount Bahaya is the tallest peak in the Fadhisame Mountains, which are in northeastern Somalia. The range itself is a small section of the larger

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Mountains, which define the northern

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in most of Somalia, and which extend from Karin, Bari to further east, their peaks forming the

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. Bahaya, along with the surrounding range, is mostly made up of the deeply-eroded remnants of an ancient volcanic chain.

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