Is Mount Everest in Nepal or China?

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Mount Everest, also called Sagarmatha is the highest mountain on Earth, as measured by the height of its summit above sea level, which is 8,848 metres (29,029 ft). The mountain, which is part of the Himalaya range in High Asia, is located on the border between Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal, and Tibet, China.

SO, MT. EVEREST IS LOCATED ON THE BORDER BET. Nepal, & Tibet, China.:)

Micky

Nepal

Kiran T

It is controversy to all of us as we have never been there on top of it and people say that it is in India, China and Tibet but the person who have studied well and knows by hard it is in Nepal. Yeah It may be in China, Tibet or in India but Map shows that it lies in Nepal.
So, you can refer on Wiki where I have added URL.
Thank you!

jade r

Mount Everest is in nepal..its sits just nicely at the borders of Nepal and Tibet. Tibet which is currently occupied by China. It is recognized as the landmark of Nepal and has always been.

corn-fused

Mount Everest is in Nepal touching the border of Tibet.

PRINCES 2

The peak of Himalaya is only in Nepal not in China.Only Himalaya range passes through China.Only some part the foot of the Himalaya touches Tibet not the hole range.

Venkatesh

Mt. Everest is on the border of Nepal and China. The Southern side of the mountain is accessible from Nepal, and the Northern side from Tibet (which is now an autonomous region of China). It has been climbed many times from both sides.

The mountain is called Sagarmatha in Nepal, and the Tibetans call it Chomolungma (which means mother goddess of the Earth).

In the early 19th century, the Survey of India (then British India) carried out a very elaborate mapping exercise called the 'Great Arc of India', which used Triangulation and Trigonometry to arrive at accurate distances between two points, as well as heights of peaks. This survey started in South India near Madras, and progressed gradually northwards through difficult territory. George Everest, then Surveyor General of India supervised most of this work. When the Survey reached the Terai (now Bihar), the Surveyors began triangulating the various Himalayan peaks that they could see at a great distance in the horizon. They could not enter Nepal as it was then 'forbidden territory'. The Surveyors sighted what they called as 'Peak XV' and sent the data to their Head Office in Kolkata. At Kolkata, a Bengali employee named Radhanath Sikdar, who worked as a 'Calculator' (those days humans with a flair for mathematics did the calculations manually which are now done using computers!) derived the height of Peak XV from the Survey data and sent in a report to the then Surveyor General of India, Andrew Waugh, that Peak XV appeared to be the highest point on Earth. It was then the custom of the British to retain local names for peaks. As they could not enter Nepal, they did not know that this peak was referred to as Sagarmatha. Even though there were rumours that the Tibetans knew this peak and it had a name, Waugh made a suggestion that this peak had no local name and hence it should be called as 'Everest' in honour of his predecessor and boss, Sir. George Everest (who had by then retired and returned to England). The name stuck, and we all now know this peak as Everest.

ctem

Nepal

Biraj 15

Don't make any doubt about it. Mt. Everest situated only in my country Nepal. Mt. Everest is my nation pride.

I wanna thanks Mr. Kiran T who mentioned about it very carefully.

peggy

its on both the sides .NEPAL BORDER touching china too . But its easy to clim from nepal side .

Jason

Nepal

capone

both.

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