This is a list of the highest mountain peaks of Africa. It aims to include the highest mountain peaks with a

prominence In topography, prominence (also referred to as autonomous height, relative height, and shoulder drop in US English, and drop or relative height in British English) measures the height of a mountain or hill's summit relative to the lowest contou ...

of at least 500 m. Some regions are still poorly described and the list is likely to be both incomplete and not completely accurate. This is especially true for the

Ethiopian Highlands The Ethiopian Highlands is a rugged mass of mountains in Ethiopia in Northeast Africa. It forms the largest continuous area of its elevation in the continent, with little of its surface falling below , while the summits reach heights of up to . ...

, where heights on maps and in the literature differ between each other by up to 500 m. All elevations have been checked or chosen to match the

SRTM The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) is an international research effort that obtained digital elevation models on a near-global scale from 56°S to 60°N, to generate the most complete high-resolution digital topographic database of Ea ...

-based contour lines in the Google terrain maps. The highest African mountain is

Kilimanjaro Mount Kilimanjaro () is a dormant volcano in Tanzania. It has three volcanic cones: Kibo, Mawenzi, and Shira. It is the highest mountain in Africa and the highest free-standing mountain above sea level in the world: above sea level and ab ...

, which has three peaks, named Kibo, Mawenzi and Shira, of which Kibo is the tallest.

Mount Kenya Mount Kenya (Kikuyu: ''Kĩrĩnyaga'', Kamba, ''Ki Nyaa'') is the highest mountain in Kenya and the second-highest in Africa, after Kilimanjaro. The highest peaks of the mountain are Batian (), Nelion () and Point Lenana (). Mount Kenya is locat ...

is the second highest mountain in Africa which also has three main peaks, namely Batian, Nelion and Lenana Point.

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*Jamish Brown
Climbing in the Atlas Mountains
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The Alpine Journal The ''Alpine Journal'' (''AJ'') is an annual publication by the Alpine Club of London. It is the oldest mountaineering journal in the world. History The magazine was first published on 2 March 1863 by the publishing house of Longman in London, ...

'', 2002, pp. 81–91. *Des Clark
Mountaineering in the Moroccan High Atlas
Cicerone, 2011 *Bernhard Lindahl
Local History of Ethiopia
2005/2008 (for verification of names)

at Peaklist.org * *{{cite peakbagger , lid=2501 , name=Africa 4000-meter Peaks (an unverified list)

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...

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