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  2. Ural Mountains - Wikipedia

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    The highest peak of the Ural, Mount Narodnaya, (elevation 1,895 m [6,217 ft]) was identified in 1927. [16] Wooded Ural Mountains. During the Soviet industrialization in the 1930s, the city of Magnitogorsk was founded in the South-Eastern Ural as a center of iron smelting and steelmaking.

  3. List of mountain peaks of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three main ways: The topographic elevation of a summit measures the height of the tip of a mountain above a geodetic sea level. [b] [c] The first table below ranks the 100 highest major summits of the United States by elevation.

  4. List of the highest major summits of the United States ...

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    The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways: The topographic elevation of a summit measures the height of the summit above a geodetic sea level. [2] [3] The topographic prominence of a summit is a measure of how high the summit rises above its surroundings. [4] [3]

  5. List of U.S. states and territories by elevation - Wikipedia

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    sea level: 41 500 ft ... Sassafras Mountain in South Carolina. 31. ... List of elevation extremes by region; Lists of highest points.

  6. Mount Narodnaya - Wikipedia

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    It is the highest point in European Russia outside the Caucasus. This leads to its large topographic prominence of 1,772 metres (5,814 ft). Narodnaya is located in the Ural mountains water divide , and therefore on the border between Europe and Asia : the Naroda river flows south-east from the summit into the Ob river in Siberia , and the Kos ...

  7. List of mountain peaks by prominence - Wikipedia

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    Height on the other hand simply means elevation of the summit above sea level. Regarding parents, the prominence parent of peak A can be found by dividing the island or region in question into territories, by tracing the runoff from the key col (mountain pass) of every peak that is more prominent than peak A. The parent is the peak whose ...

  8. List of the highest major summits of North America - Wikipedia

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    The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways: The topographic elevation of a summit measures the height of the summit above a geodetic sea level. [3] [4] The topographic prominence of a summit is a measure of how high the summit rises above its surroundings. [5] [4]

  9. List of mountain peaks of North America - Wikipedia

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    The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways: The topographic elevation of a summit measures the height of the summit above a geodetic sea level. [3] [4] The first table below ranks the 100 highest major summits of greater North America by elevation.