Jabal Umm ad Dami, in historic
Wadi Rum, is the
highest mountain
Currently, There are at least 108 mountains on Earth with elevations of or greater above sea level. The vast majority of these mountains are located on the edge of the Indian and Eurasian plates in China, India, Nepal and Pakistan.
The di ...
in
Jordan
Jordan ( ar, الأردن; tr. ' ), officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,; tr. ' is a country in Western Asia. It is situated at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, within the Levant region, on the East Bank of the Jordan Ri ...
. Its claimed elevation of 1,854 metres
High Jinks - An update to World Tops and Bottoms
is consistent with SRTM data. It is located at , near to the border with Saudi Arabia in the Aqaba Governorate of Jordan.
See also
* List of elevation extremes by country
The following sortable table lists land surface elevation extremes by country or dependent territory.
Topographic elevation is the vertical distance above the reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gr ...
References
Umm Ad Dami
Highest points of countries
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