Mountainside destinations are on the list of favorites of a lot of people. Mountainous areas often offer some of the most mesmerizingly beautiful images, and going for a vacation in such a place makes for a great relaxation opportunity.
The highest elevation points in some countries might be inaccessible though, but usually, the surrounding landforms are impressive enough and great for checking out. If you’re a simple tourist, you might not want to climb the Everest on your weekend trip, but if you’re traveling to Greece, for example, Mount Olympus – which has the country’s highest elevation point – is quite nice to explore and there are many hotels and taverns nearby. Book a hotel room in Greece or wherever you want and go enjoy the high of your vacation!
| Country | Highest Elevation |
| Afghanistan | Noshak 7,492 m |
| Albania | Maja e Korabit (Golem Korab) 2,764 m |
| Algeria | Tahat 2,908 m |
| American Samoa | Lata Mountain 964 m |
| Andorra | Pic de Coma Pedrosa 2,946 m |
| Angola | Moca 2,620 m |
| Anguilla | Crocus Hill 73 m |
| Antigua and Barbuda | Mount Obama 402 m |
| Argentina | Cerro Aconcagua (located in the northwestern corner of the province of Mendoza; highest point in South America) 6,962 m |
| Armenia | Aragats Lerrnagagat’ 4,090 m |
| Aruba | Ceru Jamanota 188 m |
| Australia | Mount Kosciuszko 2,228 m |
| Austria | Grossglockner 3,798 m |
| Azerbaijan | Bazarduzu Dagi 4,466 m |
| Bahrain | Jabal ad Dukhan 135 m |
| Bangladesh | Keokradong 1,230 m |
| Barbados | Mount Hillaby 336 m |
| Belarus | Dzyarzhynskaya Hara 346 m |
| Belgium | Botrange 694 m |
| Belize | Doyle’s Delight 1,124 m |
| Benin | Mont Sokbaro 658 m |
| Bermuda | Town Hill 79 m |
| Bhutan | Gangkar Puensum 7,570 m |
| Bolivia | Nevado Sajama 6,542 m |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | Maglic 2,386 m |
| Botswana | Tsodilo Hills 1,489 m |
| Brazil | Pico da Neblina 2,994 m |
| British Virgin Islands | Mount Sage 521 m |
| Brunei | Bukit Pagon 1,850 m |
| Bulgaria | Musala 2,925 m |
| Burkina Faso | Tena Kourou 749 m |
| Burma | Gamlang Razi 5,870 m |
| Burundi | Heha 2,670 m |
| Cabo Verde | Mt. Fogo (a volcano on Fogo Island) 2,829 m |
| Cambodia | Phnum Aoral 1,810 m |
| Cameroon | Fako on Mont Cameroun 4,045 m |
| Canada | Mount Logan 5,959 m |
| Cayman Islands | 1 km SW of The Bluff on Cayman Brac 50 m |
| Central African Republic | Mont Ngaoui 1,410 m |
| Chad | Emi Koussi 3,445 m |
| Chile | Nevado Ojos del Salado 6,880 m |
| China | Mount Everest (highest peak in Asia and highest point on earth above sea level) 8,848 m |
| Christmas Island | Murray Hill 361 m |
| Cocos Islands | South Point on South Island 9 m |
| Colombia | Pico Cristobal Colon 5,730 m |
| Comoros | Karthala 2,360 m |
| Congo Republic | Mount Berongou 903 m |
| Cook Islands | Te Manga 652 m |
| Costa Rica | Cerro Chirripo 3,819 m |
| Cote d’Ivoire | Monts Nimba 1,752 m |
| Croatia | Dinara 1,831 m |
| Cuba | Pico Turquino 1,974 m |
| Curacao | Mt. Christoffel 372 m |
| Cyprus | Mount Olympus 1,951 m |
| Czechia | Snezka 1,602 m |
| Denmark | Mollehoj/Ejer Bavnehoj 171 m |
| Djibouti | Moussa Ali 2,021 m |
| Dominica | Morne Diablotins 1,447 m |
| Democratic Republic of Congo | Pic Marguerite on Mont Ngaliema (Mount Stanley) 5,110 m |
| Ecuador | Chimborazo 6,267 |
| Egypt | Mount Catherine 2,629 m |
| El Salvador | Cerro El Pital 2,730 m |
| Equatorial Guinea | Pico Basile 3,008 m |
| Eritrea | Soira 3,018 m |
| Estonia | Suur Munamagi 318 m |
| Eswatini | Emlembe 1,862 m |
| Ethiopia | Ras Dejen 4,550 m |
| Falkland Islands | Mount Usborne 705 m |
| Faroe Islands | Slaettaratindur 882 m |
| Fiji | Tomanivi 1,324 m |
| Finland | Halti (alternatively Haltia, Haltitunturi, Haltiatunturi) 1,328 m |
| France | Mont Blanc 4,810 |
| French Polynesia | Mont Orohena 2,241 m |
| Gabon | Mont Iboundji 1,575 m |
| Gambia | unnamed elevation 53 m |
| Gaza Strip | Abu ‘Awdah (Joz Abu ‘Awdah) 105 m |
| Georgia | Mt’a Shkhara 5,193 m |
| Germany | Zugspitze 2,963 m |
| Ghana | Mount Afadjato 885 m |
| Gibraltar | Rock of Gibraltar 426 m |
| Greece | Mount Olympus 2,917 |
| Greenland | Gunnbjorn Fjeld 3,694 m |
| Grenada | Mount Saint Catherine 840 m |
| Guam | Mount Lamlam 406 m |
| Guatemala | Volcan Tajumulco (highest point in Central America) 4,220 m |
| Guernsey | Le Moulin on Sark 114 m |
| Guinea | Mont Nimba 1,752 m |
| Guinea-Bissau | unnamed elevation in the eastern part of the country 300 m |
| Guyana | Laberintos del Norte on Mount Roraima 2,775 m |
| Haiti | Chaine de la Selle 2,680 m |
| Vatican City | Vatican Gardens (Vatican Hill) 78 m |
| Honduras | Cerro Las Minas 2,870 m |
| Hong Kong | Tai Mo Shan 958 m |
| Hungary | Kekes 1,014 m |
| Iceland | Hvannadalshnukur (at Vatnajokull Glacier) 2,110 m |
| India | Kanchenjunga 8,586 m |
| Indonesia | Puncak Jaya 4,884 m |
| Iran | Kuh-e Damavand 5,625 m |
| Iraq | Cheekha Dar (Kurdish for “Black Tent”) 3,611 m |
| Ireland | Carrauntoohil 1,041 m |
| Isle of Man | Snaefell 621 m |
| Israel | Mitspe Shlagim 2,224 m; note – this is the highest named point, the actual highest point is an unnamed dome slightly to the west of Mitspe Shlagim at 2,236 m; both points are on the northeastern border of Israel, along the southern end of the Anti-Lebanon mountain range |
| Italy | Mont Blanc (Monte Bianco) de Courmayeur (a secondary peak of Mont Blanc) 4,748 m |
| Jamaica | Blue Mountain Peak 2,256 m |
| Japan | Mount Fuji 3,776 m |
| Jersey | Les Platons 136 m |
| Jordan | Jabal Umm ad Dami 1,854 m |
| Kazakhstan | Khan Tangiri Shyngy (Pik Khan-Tengri) 6,995 m |
| Kenya | Mount Kenya 5,199 m |
| Kiribati | unnamed elevation on Banaba 81 m m |
| Kosovo | Gjeravica/Deravica 2,656 m |
| Kuwait | 3.6 km W. of Al-Salmi Border Post 300 m |
| Kyrgyzstan | Jengish Chokusu (Pik Pobedy) 7,439 m |
| Laos | Phu Bia 2,817 m |
| Latvia | Gaizina Kalns 312 m |
| Lebanon | Qornet es Saouda 3,088 m |
| Lesotho | Thabana Ntlenyana 3,482 m |
| Liberia | Mount Wuteve 1,447 m |
| Libya | Bikku Bitti 2,267 m |
| Liechtenstein | Vorder-Grauspitz 2,599 m |
| Lithuania | Aukstojas 294 m |
| Luxembourg | Buurgplaatz 559 m |
| Macau | Alto Coloane 172 m |
| Madagascar | Maromokotro 2,876 m |
| Malawi | Sapitwa (Mount Mlanje) 3,002 m |
| Malaysia | Gunung Kinabalu 4,095 m |
| Maldives | 8th tee, golf course, Villingi Island 5 m |
| Mali | Hombori Tondo 1,155 m |
| Malta | Ta’Dmejrek on Dingli Cliffs 253 m |
| Marshall Islands | East-central Airik Island, Maloelap Atoll 14 m |
| Mauritania | Kediet Ijill 915 m |
| Mauritius | Mont Piton 828 m |
| Mexico | Volcan Pico de Orizaba 5,636 m |
| Micronesia | Nanlaud on Pohnpei 782 m |
| Moldova | Dealul Balanesti 430 m |
| Monaco | Chemin des Revoires on Mont Agel 162 m |
| Mongolia | Nayramadlin Orgil (Khuiten Peak) 4,374 m |
| Montenegro | Bobotov Kuk 2,522 m |
| Montserrat | Soufriere Hills volcano pre-eruption height was 915 m; current lava dome is subject to periodic build up and collapse; estimated dome height was 1,050 m in 2015 |
| Morocco | Jebel Toubkal 4,165 m |
| Mozambique | Monte Binga 2,436 m |
| Namibia | Konigstein on Brandberg 2,573 m |
| Nauru | Command Ridge 70 m |
| Nepal | Mount Everest (highest peak in Asia and highest point on earth above sea level) 8,848 m |
| Netherlands | Mount Scenery (on the island of Saba in the Caribbean, now considered an integral part of the Netherlands following the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles) 862 m |
| New Caledonia | Mont Panie 1,628 m |
| New Zealand | Aoraki/Mount Cook 3,724 m; note – the mountain’s height was 3,764 m until 14 December 1991 when it lost about 10 m in an avalanche of rock and ice; erosion of the ice cap since then has brought the height down another 30 m |
| Nicaragua | Mogoton 2,085 m |
| Niger | Idoukal-n-Taghes 2,022 m |
| Nigeria | Chappal Waddi 2,419 m |
| Niue | unnamed elevation 1.4 km east of Hikutavake 80 m |
| Norfolk Island | Mount Bates 319 m |
| North Korea | Paektu-san 2,744 m |
| North Macedonia | Golem Korab (Maja e Korabit) 2,764 m |
| Northern Mariana Islands | unnamed elevation on Agrihan 965 m |
| Norway | Galdhopiggen 2,469 m |
| Oman | Jabal Shams 3,004 m |
| Pakistan | K2 (Mt. Godwin-Austen) 8,611 m |
| Palau | Mount Ngerchelchuus 242 m |
| Panama | Volcan Baru 3,475 m |
| Papua New Guinea | Mount Wilhelm 4,509 m |
| Paraguay | Cerro Pero 842 m |
| Peru | Nevado Huascaran 6,746 m |
| Philippines | Mount Apo 2,954 m |
| Pitcairn Islands | Palwala Valley Point on Big Ridge 347 m |
| Poland | Rysy 2,499 m |
| Portugal | Ponta do Pico (Pico or Pico Alto) on Ilha do Pico in the Azores 2,351 m |
| Puerto Rico | Cerro de Punta 1,338 m |
| Qatar | Tuwayyir al Hamir 103 m |
| Romania | Moldoveanu 2,544 m |
| Russia | Gora El’brus (highest point in Europe) 5,642 m |
| Rwanda | Volcan Karisimbi 4,519 m |
| Saint Barthelemy | Morne du Vitet 286 m |
| Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha | Queen Mary’s Peak on Tristan da Cunha 859 m; Green Mountain on Ascension Island 818 m; Mount Actaeon on Saint Helena Island 2,060 m |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | Mount Liamuiga 1,156 m |
| Saint Lucia | Mount Gimie 948 m |
| Saint Martin | Pic du Paradis 424 m |
| Saint Pierre and Miquelon | Morne de la Grande Montagne 240 m |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | La Soufriere 1,234 m |
| Samoa | Mount Silisili 1,857 m |
| San Marino | Monte Titano 739 m |
| Sao Tome and Principe | Pico de Sao Tome 2,024 m |
| Saudi Arabia | Jabal Sawda’ 3,133 m |
| Senegal | unnamed elevation 2.8 km southeast of Nepen Diaka 648 m |
| Serbia | Midzor 2,169 m |
| Seychelles | Morne Seychellois 905 m |
| Sierra Leone | Loma Mansa (Bintimani) 1,948 m |
| Singapore | Bukit Timah 166 m |
| Sint Maarten | Mount Flagstaff 383 m |
| Slovakia | Gerlachovsky Stit 2,655 m |
| Slovenia | Triglav 2,864 m |
| Solomon Islands | Mount Popomanaseu 2,335 m |
| Somalia | Shimbiris 2,416 m |
| South Africa | Njesuthi 3,408 m |
| South Korea | Halla-san 1,950 m |
| South Sudan | Kinyeti 3,187 m |
| Spain | Pico de Teide (Tenerife) on Canary Islands 3,718 m |
| Sri Lanka | Pidurutalagala 2,524 m |
| Sudan | Jabal Marrah 3,042 m |
| Suriname | Juliana Top 1,230 m |
| Svalbard | Newtontoppen 1,717 m |
| Sweden | Kebnekaise 2,111 m |
| Switzerland | Dufourspitze 4,634 m |
| Syria | Mount Hermon (Jabal a-Shayk) 2,814 m |
| Taiwan | Yu Shan 3,952 m |
| Tajikistan | Qullai Ismoili Somoni 7,495 m |
| Tanzania | Kilimanjaro (highest point in Africa) 5,895 m |
| Thailand | Doi Inthanon 2,565 m |
| Bahamas | Mount Alvernia on Cat Island 64 m |
| Dominican Republic | Pico Duarte 3,098 m |
| Timor-Leste | Foho Tatamailau 2,963 m |
| Togo | Mont Agou 986 m |
| Tonga | Kao Volcano on Kao Island 1,046 m |
| Trinidad and Tobago | El Cerro del Aripo 940 m |
| Tunisia | Jebel ech Chambi 1,544 m |
| Turkey | Mount Ararat 5,137 m |
| Turkmenistan | Gora Ayribaba 3,139 m |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | Blue Hill on Providenciales and Flamingo Hill on East Caicos 48 m |
| Tuvalu | unnamed location 5 m |
| Uganda | Margherita Peak on Mount Stanley 5,110 m |
| Ukraine | Hora Hoverla 2,061 m |
| United Arab Emirates | Jabal Yibir 1,527 m |
| United Kingdom | Ben Nevis 1,345 m |
| United States | Denali 6,190 m (Mount McKinley) (highest point in North America) |
| Uruguay | Cerro Catedral 514 m |
| Uzbekistan | Adelunga Toghi 4,301 m |
| Vanuatu | Tabwemasana 1,877 m |
| Venezuela | Pico Bolivar 4,978 m |
| Vietnam | Fan Si Pan 3,144 m |
| Virgin Islands | Crown Mountain 474 m |
| Wallis and Futuna | Mont Singavi (on Futuna) 522 m |
| West Bank | Khallat al Batrakh 1,020 m |
| Western Sahara | unnamed elevation 805 m |
| Yemen | Jabal an Nabi Shu’ayb 3,666 m |
| Zambia | unnamed elevation in Mafinga Hills 2,301 m |
| Zimbabwe | Inyangani 2,592 m |
Although when we say highest elevation point, the first thing that comes to mind are high mountain peaks, some countries have low high elevation points. The Maldives, this very popular exotic destination, doesn’t go any higher that 5 meters. No peaks there, for sure, but the beaches and water villas definitely make up for it.
