BEFORE YOU COMMENT ABOUT SPAIN OR SOMETHING, READ THIS Hey everyone. I want to address the many, many comments I've gotten about the countries I chose to include on this list. As I stated at the start of the video, I only included countries that geographically are in Europe or have a portion of their territory in Europe. Since Europe's borders are imaginary, I used a common definition, which (among other things) uses the Eurasian Plate and the Caucasus watershed as borders. So, this excludes Armenia, Cyprus, and the Canaries. On the other hand, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan all have small portions of land in Europe, therefore they were included. Despite some of these countries being more European than Asian sociopolitically, or vice versa, geography was the only consideration for this video. Hope this helps to clear up any confusion.
the Netherlands' highest point is actually in the caribbean, on the island of Saba at 887m. Although this island is not technically in Europe, it is part of the country ;)
While Møllehøj is the tallest point in Denmark, the realm also includes Greenland and the Faroe islands. Greenland is not in Euorpe but the Faroe Islands are. Therefore the highpoint should be Slættaratindur with a height of 880 metres.
im sad because all the english kids will say there country has the highest point in the uk but there is four countries not hating but im getting annoyed about people sayiny the uk and not crediting all four countries
@@charlie3449 Its crazy if you think its crazy. Denmark is on the ocean and Switzerland is landlocked in the middle of the Alps. Alps are mountains. Mountains are higher than Oceans. Write that down so you can remember.
@@imjashingyou3461 no, we actualy tried to give it to them. But the constitution did not allow for it to happen in the end. Was basicaly a good will gesture that we wanted to happen before reading the fine print
Highest peaks outside Europe: Spain-Teide, Canary Islands 3718 m Netherlands-Mount Scenery, Saba 887 m Denmark-Gunnbjorn, Greenland 3694 m Turkey-Mount Ararat 5137 m Kazakhstan-Khan Tengri 7010 m Arguably in Europe Armenia-Mount Aragats 4090 m
I've climbed all European high points, it was an amazing project and took me 4 years 4 months to achieve it with my friend Mark. I recommend it as while some are technically challenging, with a good guide you can achieve all of them.
@@pvfsm I havent climbed it yet as we used the peak bagger list of European countries but I have since climbed the Armenian high point, It my view point its not europe but the Asian group, Elbrus was included as Russian is seen as being attached to Europe but also has an asian footprint
@@bobbazley5376 I asked precisely about Shkhara because I heard it was really hard, much more technichal than Mt Blanc, Dufourspitze or Elbruz. I hope you climb it too.
Fun fact about Luxembourg highest point. We thought we found the highest point, so we built a tower, then it turns out we were wrong, so we built a tower on the new spot. You guessed it we were wrong again, so no one bothered building a tower the third time.
Fun fact about Belgium: Signal de Botrange, the official height is indeed 694 meters. But you saw that stairs In the pic? That has placed there to reach a height of 700 meters. 😂😂😂
In Crete there are two different mountains with almost the same height (Psiloritis at 2456m and The White Mountains at 2454m), so the climbers that reach the peaks stack rocks on top of each other in order to make their peaks the tallest in Crete.
A similar thing happens in Portugal where there is an 9-meter tall observatory atop Estrela Mountain Range so that it reaches 2000 m (from its 1991-meter height)
Germany's border with Austria runs across the Zugspitze. Which is why our tour guide made sure we all knew *which* cable car to take back down from the observation platform at the summit; apparently, it's not uncommon for the distracted to get on the wrong one, and end up in a different country.
The lowest point in the country is sea level. All Canadian provinces have ocean shoreline except Alberta and Saskatchewan. Saskatchewan's low point in the shore of Lake Athabasca. Alberta's is Slave River.
Lowest point within each state/province/country’s exclusive economic zone. So if the country has ocean floors or deep lakes within its EEZ, then that would be the lowest point.
Fun Fact: the highest mountain in Spain is in the Canary Islands but it's not in Europe. But if that mountain called El Teide counted Spain would have occupied the same position
Great video! I found it very interesting that 4 countries (Greece, Bulgaria, Andorra, Germany) having their highest peaks differing by only 45 m. And that in 4 different mountain ranges far away from each other.
Bulgaria's Pirin mountain also has its highest peak, Vihren at 2914m high, just 3 meters shy of Olympus. Also according to Google Earth you can see Olympus from there
Similarly, three US states (California, Colorado, and Washington) have high points within 87ft/27m of each other, despite being in three separate mountain ranges and none of the states bordering each other. They are also the three highest state high points in the continental US.
Great video bro. Spain highest is Teide volcano in Canary island, but Canaries aren't in Europe I suppose. Aneto in the Pyrenees, Mulhacen in the whole peninsula and Teide in the whole country.
@@ranua9327 no, he’s talking about the European continental shelf part of European countries. Which is why Portugal includes the Azores but Spain doesn’t include Canaries in this video, and Cyprus doesn’t appear at all.
While Møllehøj is the highest peak in the Denmark proper, it's not the highest European peak of the Danish Kingdom, that honour belongs to the Faroese mountain of Slættaratindur, which has a height of 880 m. Interesting, that people always remember Greenland, but forget us the Faroese. Sucks to be small, I guess.
Thanks for pointing this out. You are correct, I do not know how I overlooked the Faroe Islands, but they are indeed within Europe. Really sorry about that.
The Kazakhstan high point is in Asia, the border is normally defined as Kaukasus watershed and the Ural river, then the Ural mountians - at least that is was I was taught in school. The highest Kazakh point in Asia is of course a lot, lot higher. The country does extend west of the Ural river so it does have a European part.
Fun fact: Elbrus, for those who don’t know is a dormant volcano. Thought that people who like to know the origin of certain mountains would want to know that. It has two summits, one at 5,621m (18,442 ft) and the other at 5,642m (18,510 ft). It’s last eruption was around 50AD, give or take 50 years. Technically speaking in geological terms that’s pretty recent making it technically an active volcano as it meets the criteria given by most volcanologists: 1) having erupted in the past 10,000 years(“historical times” they say). 2) Showing signs of activity or unrest. Which Elbrus has several hot springs and active fumaroles. Hopefully we all get to see this volcano erupt in our lifetime. However it may be dangerous to anyone near because of its heavily ice and snow capped summit, which an eruption would cause massive lahars and pyroclastic flows. Hope you enjoyed the quick geek out.
I remember being in the service at Lajes, Azores and we would ride our bikes to the top of the island and see the 7,000’ volcano miles away across the water.
When were you in Lajes? Only I live on El Hierro, and in the 1970s we had an accident here involving a plane from that base. The story is known as "Operación Manuel". I´d be interested in any information about it.
WOW! This video definitely had its share of surprises! I was expecting the Netherlands to come first on the list, since it is otherwise so low in elevation, but many other European countries, it turns out, have lower high points. I was also quite surprised that Khazakhstan made it onto this list, since I thought that it was in Asia, not Europe. Of the various European high points you covered in this video, I have hiked to the top of two of them: Ben Nevis in the UK and Moldoveanu in Romania's Fagaras mountains (part of the southern Carpathian chain).
(Phil:) "And tell me, how does that make you feel?" (patient from netherlands:) "Doctor, I am constantly feeling low for some reason I can't figure out." (Phil:) "Good! There's not a thing wrong with what you just said, and god bless you for claiming that right!" (sry couldn't resist this)
The peak shown in the satellite imagery for Kosovo is actually Bristavec, a peak slightly higher than Velika Rudoka but located entirely in North Macedonia just to the northeast of Velika Rudoka. Google Earth erroneously forwards to this peak if you search for Velika Rudoka. Great vid nonetheless!
My town in Switzerland is considered to be pretty low but it's actually 740m above sea level... It's crazy to think it's higher up than many European countries
Such an intresting video. I climbed Sniezka 4 times (first when i was 3 years old) and it's also the highest point of mountain Range of the Karkonose in Poland. Nice views but the peak is always very crowded. Greetings from Poland!
Fascinating video, which would have taken a considerable amount f research. What is exemplified is that quality of view and chellenge of climb is not always correlated to height. For instance, you showed the north face of Mulhacen in Spain. From experience the south side is a gentle dead easy walk. Also one minor correction. The summit of Mont Blank is solely in France. A south eastern subsidiary summit, Monte Bianco di Courmayeur is just 100 m away, and at 4736m is the official highest point in Italy
For those who don't know the reason why so many of these mountains are on borders because back in the old days they didn't have satelites so they used rivers and mountains as the borders of their countries.
Nonsense, Colonial (straight) borders were also drawn before satellites existed. It had to do everything with defence: mountains and bodies of water are easy to defend, so naturally that's where the borders are.
The Danube river: let me introduce myself... (Slovakia / Hungary, Romania / Serbia, Romania / Bulgaria, Romania / Moldavia) By the way, Komárom HU and Komárno SK , upon Danube, used to be one town. Also Český Těšín CZ and Cieszyn PL used to be one town divided by the Olše river. The vast majority of the central European borders were drawn right after the WWI using rivers as Danube, Ipel / Ipoly, Olše, Dráva, Tisza, Dyje, Morava, Nisa, Odra, Orlice, Flöha, Zinnbach, Ohře...
When we came to Hungary the music that started in the background was a pretty neat choice ( has nothing to do with Hungary though. The music just started there ) I appreciate that as a fan of that game :) 👍 But ofcurse, nice video too.
34 of Finland's highest points are located in one single municipality of Enontekiö, and 44 highest include the neighboring municipality to the south, Muonio. You can not find a peak higher than 500m outside the Lapland area.
For those who are curious about some other European territories and areas he left out, here are some that I found!!! French Guyana (France): Bellevue de l'Inini, 851m/2792ft, would be at 4:37 Svalbard (Norway): Newtontoppen, 1713m/5620ft, would be at 6:19 Cyprus: Mount Olympos, 1952m/6404ft, would be at 6:35 Greenland (Denmark): Gunnbjørn Fjeld, 3700m/12,139ft would be at 12:25
The interesting thing about Halti in Finland is that Norway wanted to gift the mountain to Finland for its 100th year birthday. Unfortunately the constitution wouldn't allow it. Campaigners had proposed moving the border to give the summit to Finland, saying the change would be barely visible on the map.
@@jarskil8862 I think the friendly campaign in itself was the present to the people of Finland. As for corrupt governments, when they are in they will use their majority to change a constitution. But, yeah, countries need some protection.
Hi, great video, just a minor correction if I may, the name of Olympus' highest peak, Mytikas, is the colloquial one, its formal name (found on Atlases or scientific papers) is Pantheon
An eternal controversy is the question if the Caucasus belongs to Europe or not. North of it the Manytch plain in Russia is seen mostly as the transition area to Asia without a definable border. More or less officially the Ural mountains and the Ural River are considered as border. In this case the Russian city of Magnitogorsk is also lying on two continents, like its counterpart metropolis Istanbul.
@@ethancoffey3491 well some territories aren't colonies but considered actual dutch land, but i agree with your point it's about land on the European Peninsula
For luxembourg „buurgplatz“ was always considered the highest point in luxembourg until they found kneiff bein 1 m taller, the story is that one day a farmer just dropped 1m of dirt at that point to make it the tallest
Vaalserberg is land surface with the highest elevation in the Netherlands, but not actually the highest point in the Netherlands as suggested by the title. That would be the top of the Gerbrandytower, a TV tower in IJsselstijn. It is 50 meters higher at 372 meters.
Excuse sir, but in Spain we have some little islands called Canary Islands or Islas Canarias in Spanish. They are located near Africa and they belong to Spain, there’s one in particular called Tenerife, where there’s a Volcano called El Teide which is the tallest peak in Spain, with and astonishing 3718m and snow almost every year, which is pretty cool in my opinion considering the Canaries are a Hawaiian-ish islands. Just wanted to take that off my chest. Have a nice day y’all!
That’s true and all, but the Canaries aren’t a part of the Europe as they already belong to Africa (they are west of Morocco after all). For Turkey he also only counted the highest mountain on the European side so it only seem fair to exclude the Teide
@@taylorhollins6289 it's actually about 40% of our country wich is below sea level, and it really has to be a severe storm coming in from the west to actually make us close our waterkeringen.
12:10 The tallest mountain in Spain is Mount Teide in the Canary Islands. It's an active and very dangerous volcano due to it being near the largest city in the Canary Islands, Santa Cruz de Tenerife. But it doesn't count since it's in the African Continental Self. The Canary Islands are a volcanic archipelago which formed in similar waves to Cape Verde, Hawaii, Azores, or the Galapagos Islands due to volcanic activity.
Well, I'm Italian, it's funny because back at primary school they were teaching us mount Bianco being the highest mountain in Europe, they were omitting "West"🤣 Most Italians still believe in it.
It depends on where you want to draw the line between Europe and Asia. According to some of these boundary definitions the Mont Blanc is the tallest mountain in Europe
Big props for trying to pronounce all of these names. I have been atop more European high points than US States high points. That just seems . . . wrong.
No it isn't. The Dufourspitze is the highest peak of the Monte Rosa and is fully within Switzerland. The Grenzgipfel (=Border Summit) which is, as it names says at the border, is 16 meters lower.
@@terza333 Yes, but the OP explicitly says 'the peak of monte rosa' and the peak of Monte Rosa is the Dufourspitze. Also, if the name of the mountain is Italian it doesn't make the peak Italian. Italian is a national language of Switzerland.
If it was just the countries in europe with their full sovereign territory but not overseas territories then Spain's highest point would be Mount Tiede on the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands
@@YoloMenace001 the Azores are further north than the Canaries. The Canaries clearly are west of Morocco while the Azores can still be considered a part of Europe
I have done 37 of them. Covid stopped me getting Belarus last year. Interesting fact the Belarus summit named after the founder of the KGB, Felix Dzerzhinsky.
Having grown up In Torino and vacationing in Courmayeur before moving to the states, I was quiet upset when taught that Monte Bianco was in France and tried in vain to correct my teacher. I suspect the reason had something to do with the fact that when crossing the mountains via cable car, pre European Union, the passport control office was at Punta Helbronner (in Italy) rather than at Aiguille du Midi. And since you pass by Monte Bianco in that portion of the crossing, it was assumed to be in France.
@@remymerieux9562 Kind of. France and Italy both claimed it was shared when the border was established in 1860. Years later, France unilaterally moved the border to give themselves the peak, despite no basis for it. That being said... given my background and (assuming by your name) your background. I suspect we won't come to any agreements here. 🤣
Fun fact: The difference between my city´s highest and lowest point is the same as the altitude of Denmark highest point (not included hills and river sides)
I think he had a weird definition of European Kazakhstan. Edit: I just looked at Wikipedia and it named the same high point for European Kazakhstan. It’s weird because all definitions of the Eurasian Border that I know of aren’t anywhere further south eastern than the northernmost point of the Caspian Sea.
@@eriknoorvali We, here in Finland, call all of the peaks in Lapland fells. Including all those 1km+ peaks of the Finnish scandis. So, I don't know where we are on this pathetic scale because no one else uses the word "fell" other than us and Swedes.
Most of the mountains are snow capped Europe Here my place we have 4 mountain above 2670 meter on of that mountain temperature always more than 30° Celsius
I assume that these peaks are measured from sea-level. What if they are measured from its base as a number of countries have peaks that start in that countries uplands.
I think it's justifiable to consider Africa and Eurasia separate continents, and the same for North and South America, because the pieces of land that connect them are extremely narrow. Nonetheless, much like the very long land boundary between Europe and Asia, even those boundaries are fuzzy.
I do agree that Europe and Asia are really one continent. The Ural mountain range that is supposed to divide them is not a very tall mountain range at all. Why isn't India a completely separate continent from Asia? Why are the puny Urals able to make Europe a separate continent but the mighty Himalayas are not?
BEFORE YOU COMMENT ABOUT SPAIN OR SOMETHING, READ THIS
Hey everyone. I want to address the many, many comments I've gotten about the countries I chose to include on this list. As I stated at the start of the video, I only included countries that geographically are in Europe or have a portion of their territory in Europe. Since Europe's borders are imaginary, I used a common definition, which (among other things) uses the Eurasian Plate and the Caucasus watershed as borders. So, this excludes Armenia, Cyprus, and the Canaries. On the other hand, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan all have small portions of land in Europe, therefore they were included. Despite some of these countries being more European than Asian sociopolitically, or vice versa, geography was the only consideration for this video. Hope this helps to clear up any confusion.
I might be the 6,666th sub lol
the Netherlands' highest point is actually in the caribbean, on the island of Saba at 887m. Although this island is not technically in Europe, it is part of the country ;)
@@richamo13 tectonic plates and different continents
While Møllehøj is the tallest point in Denmark, the realm also includes Greenland and the Faroe islands. Greenland is not in Euorpe but the Faroe Islands are. Therefore the highpoint should be Slættaratindur with a height of 880 metres.
im sad because all the english kids will say there country has the highest point in the uk but there is four countries not hating but im getting annoyed about people sayiny the uk and not crediting all four countries
Denmark’s highest point is lower than Switzerland’s lowest point 💀
that's kinda crazy
@@charlie3449 Its crazy if you think its crazy. Denmark is on the ocean and Switzerland is landlocked in the middle of the Alps. Alps are mountains. Mountains are higher than Oceans. Write that down so you can remember.
@@peterwinters8587 that was a bit condescending-
@@joetyler9285 The truth hurts
@@peterwinters8587 lmao why the attitude 💀 you must be fun at parties! 🥴
Fun fact: Norway tried to give the actual peak of Halti to Finland as a gift when it turned 100 years but it would've been too hard to do it legally.
Hah that's hilarious! Love the camaraderie between the Nordic countries.
i find that hard to believe
@@imjashingyou3461 no, we actualy tried to give it to them. But the constitution did not allow for it to happen in the end. Was basicaly a good will gesture that we wanted to happen before reading the fine print
@@imjashingyou3461 I tried linking an article but I cant paste links here...
It was a pretty big thing here in Finland too. Shame it didn't happen. It was a really nice gesture though.
Glad you make the effort to at least try to pronounce these places properly. Few youtubers do this
Came here to say this.
Nailed carrauntoohil to be fair have heard it butchered many times
And using meter's and kilometer's instead of feet/miles
He didnt try with both highest points named in Romanian :(
He pronounced Slavic ones, I'd say well
Highest peaks outside Europe:
Spain-Teide, Canary Islands 3718 m
Netherlands-Mount Scenery, Saba 887 m
Denmark-Gunnbjorn, Greenland 3694 m
Turkey-Mount Ararat 5137 m
Kazakhstan-Khan Tengri 7010 m
Arguably in Europe
Armenia-Mount Aragats 4090 m
Norway, Queen Maud Land - Jøkulkyrkja 3148 m
@@ultranomega112 Yes, true, howewer it is not obviously claimed by international laws, but practically yes.
@@szurszabogabor8642 just a territorial claim, so yes
Denmark, Greenland, Gunnbjorn's Fjeld, 3700 m except a few meters, 3690-something.
@@ultranomega112 Invalid claim, Antarctica belongs to no one.
As a Dutch person I'm very surprised we made it so far into the video 🤣
Ja harry
Dat klopt harry
Nederland is de laagste land van Europa
@GwoonHarry Maar echt
The netherlands is way too flat
I've climbed all European high points, it was an amazing project and took me 4 years 4 months to achieve it with my friend Mark. I recommend it as while some are technically challenging, with a good guide you can achieve all of them.
That's an amazing accomplishment, well done!
Shkhara too? How do you compare it to Mt Blanc and Dufourspitze?
@@pvfsm I havent climbed it yet as we used the peak bagger list of European countries but I have since climbed the Armenian high point, It my view point its not europe but the Asian group, Elbrus was included as Russian is seen as being attached to Europe but also has an asian footprint
@@bobbazley5376 I asked precisely about Shkhara because I heard it was really hard, much more technichal than Mt Blanc, Dufourspitze or Elbruz. I hope you climb it too.
How do you have the time and money for that
Fun fact about Luxembourg highest point. We thought we found the highest point, so we built a tower, then it turns out we were wrong, so we built a tower on the new spot. You guessed it we were wrong again, so no one bothered building a tower the third time.
Lmao
Ahahahaa what a meme
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Don't feel embarrassed, also Lithuania and Denmark made this mistake.
But was the third the actual highest or did you keep finding higher points?
Fun fact about Belgium: Signal de Botrange, the official height is indeed 694 meters. But you saw that stairs In the pic? That has placed there to reach a height of 700 meters. 😂😂😂
We Belgians are weird people
In Crete there are two different mountains with almost the same height (Psiloritis at 2456m and The White Mountains at 2454m), so the climbers that reach the peaks stack rocks on top of each other in order to make their peaks the tallest in Crete.
A similar thing happens in Portugal where there is an 9-meter tall observatory atop Estrela Mountain Range so that it reaches 2000 m (from its 1991-meter height)
What's fun about that?
Thank you for using the metric system!!!
Germany's border with Austria runs across the Zugspitze. Which is why our tour guide made sure we all knew *which* cable car to take back down from the observation platform at the summit; apparently, it's not uncommon for the distracted to get on the wrong one, and end up in a different country.
would love to see the lowest point in each state, of course a lot would just be sea level. Also Canadian Provinces and Territories.
The lowest point in the country is sea level.
All Canadian provinces have ocean shoreline except Alberta and Saskatchewan.
Saskatchewan's low point in the shore of Lake Athabasca.
Alberta's is Slave River.
@@richardhudson4649 this guys from sask
The Netherlands have a lot of land below sealevel....
@@henryfink5348 What about Manitoba? Has coastline on Hudson Bay
Lowest point within each state/province/country’s exclusive economic zone. So if the country has ocean floors or deep lakes within its EEZ, then that would be the lowest point.
Fun Fact: the highest mountain in Spain is in the Canary Islands but it's not in Europe. But if that mountain called El Teide counted Spain would have occupied the same position
Hi from Tenerife where is the Teide hehe ✌
3718m
Same with UK then... the heighest point would be Mount Paget at 2,935 m (9,629 ft) of the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
Great video! I found it very interesting that 4 countries (Greece, Bulgaria, Andorra, Germany) having their highest peaks differing by only 45 m. And that in 4 different mountain ranges far away from each other.
Bulgaria's Pirin mountain also has its highest peak, Vihren at 2914m high, just 3 meters shy of Olympus. Also according to Google Earth you can see Olympus from there
Similarly, three US states (California, Colorado, and Washington) have high points within 87ft/27m of each other, despite being in three separate mountain ranges and none of the states bordering each other. They are also the three highest state high points in the continental US.
Great video! I'd love to see you continue the Highest Point series with other continents.
Great video bro.
Spain highest is Teide volcano in Canary island, but Canaries aren't in Europe I suppose. Aneto in the Pyrenees, Mulhacen in the whole peninsula and Teide in the whole country.
But he is talking about european countries, not Europe.
@@ranua9327 no, he’s talking about the European continental shelf part of European countries. Which is why Portugal includes the Azores but Spain doesn’t include Canaries in this video, and Cyprus doesn’t appear at all.
@@Tris2000 also that's why he didn't include Greenland as part of Kingdom of Denmark
Canary islands are part of spain and the highest mountain in Spain its Teide
While Møllehøj is the highest peak in the Denmark proper, it's not the highest European peak of the Danish Kingdom, that honour belongs to the Faroese mountain of Slættaratindur, which has a height of 880 m. Interesting, that people always remember Greenland, but forget us the Faroese. Sucks to be small, I guess.
Thanks for pointing this out. You are correct, I do not know how I overlooked the Faroe Islands, but they are indeed within Europe. Really sorry about that.
@@ChicagoGeographer No worries. I'm kinda used to it by now and I in a way took it out on you, so no worries, and I apologise myself.
The video also omitted Liechtenstein which is a separate country unambiguously within Europe
@@davidstretch5614 9:30
Same case in spain, the most highest point is Teide in Canary Islands with around 3800 m.
The Kazakhstan high point is in Asia, the border is normally defined as Kaukasus watershed and the Ural river, then the Ural mountians - at least that is was I was taught in school. The highest Kazakh point in Asia is of course a lot, lot higher.
The country does extend west of the Ural river so it does have a European part.
I climbed Ben Nevis. It was a pleasant hike. ;) Nice detail that you used in your US video Feet and in your European one Meters.
It’s not “European meters”, it’s “everywhere in the world except the USA, Liberia and Myanmar meters”
@@csanadkardos9956 He was saying that he used meters in the European episode he didn't call them European meters read it again
@@jackattackmt You’re right, I withdraw from this comment section
I climbed it too last year! Was awesome
@@csanadkardos9956 Wait someone admitting there wrong on youtube man I give you my respect
Great video! I've loved geography my entire life, so this is interesting.
I noticed the Pokémon diamond/pearl/platinum soundtrack remix in background. The feels...
Fun fact: Elbrus, for those who don’t know is a dormant volcano. Thought that people who like to know the origin of certain mountains would want to know that. It has two summits, one at 5,621m (18,442 ft) and the other at 5,642m (18,510 ft). It’s last eruption was around 50AD, give or take 50 years. Technically speaking in geological terms that’s pretty recent making it technically an active volcano as it meets the criteria given by most volcanologists: 1) having erupted in the past 10,000 years(“historical times” they say). 2) Showing signs of activity or unrest. Which Elbrus has several hot springs and active fumaroles. Hopefully we all get to see this volcano erupt in our lifetime. However it may be dangerous to anyone near because of its heavily ice and snow capped summit, which an eruption would cause massive lahars and pyroclastic flows. Hope you enjoyed the quick geek out.
Thank you. I enjoyed this video as well as the U.S. states video. If there is one thing I've learned, it's that mountains make good borders.
I remember being in the service at Lajes, Azores and we would ride our bikes to the top of the island and see the 7,000’ volcano miles away across the water.
When were you in Lajes? Only I live on El Hierro, and in the 1970s we had an accident here involving a plane from that base. The story is known as "Operación Manuel". I´d be interested in any information about it.
Great video! I'm from Czech Republic and I'm here from your geoguesser videos! :D
Thanks!!
WOW! This video definitely had its share of surprises! I was expecting the Netherlands to come first on the list, since it is otherwise so low in elevation, but many other European countries, it turns out, have lower high points. I was also quite surprised that Khazakhstan made it onto this list, since I thought that it was in Asia, not Europe. Of the various European high points you covered in this video, I have hiked to the top of two of them: Ben Nevis in the UK and Moldoveanu in Romania's Fagaras mountains (part of the southern Carpathian chain).
The Ural river and mountain range are regarded as the border between Europe and Asia which makes 11% of Kazakhstan European
Another Great Video!
My dad was stationed in Germany in the 80s and he learned to first ski on the Zugspitze
I love mountain hiking, but I'm Lithuanian. *cri everytim*
As italian I feel soo good sharing my highest peak with such a beautiful country as france
As a french guy I'm proud we share this peak with such a beautiful country as Italy !
as a Frenchmen I am thinking the same for Italy 🇮🇹 🇫🇷
Thought for sure it'd be Italy, shocked to see Georgia. Great vid!
Damn, The Netherlands living up to its name lol
(Phil:) "And tell me, how does that make you feel?" (patient from netherlands:) "Doctor, I am constantly feeling low for some reason I can't figure out." (Phil:) "Good! There's not a thing wrong with what you just said, and god bless you for claiming that right!" (sry couldn't resist this)
Astounded by your correct pronunciation. Wow and thanks!
The peak shown in the satellite imagery for Kosovo is actually Bristavec, a peak slightly higher than Velika Rudoka but located entirely in North Macedonia just to the northeast of Velika Rudoka. Google Earth erroneously forwards to this peak if you search for Velika Rudoka. Great vid nonetheless!
Interesting, good catch and sorry for the error. Hope Google earth fixes that soon!
Your "Großglockner" pronunciation was actually very good
Fun fact,while Czechias highest mountain is the Snezka, the highest point of Czechia is actually the top of the radio tower on the Pradêd
My town in Switzerland is considered to be pretty low but it's actually 740m above sea level... It's crazy to think it's higher up than many European countries
Hello from Azerbaijan. You should visit Mt Bazardüzü. It is truly beautiful.
Great vid! Greetings from Bavaria
Proost!
Nice information which is good explained. Good to see how beautiful Europe can be. It is something to life for! Maybe we all should realise more?!
Props to the way you pronounced Suur Munamägi, as an Estonian, I approve
11:50 I lost my phone while skiing here, but it was an amazing ski experience.
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Such an intresting video. I climbed Sniezka 4 times (first when i was 3 years old) and it's also the highest point of mountain Range of the Karkonose in Poland. Nice views but the peak is always very crowded.
Greetings from Poland!
Fascinating video, which would have taken a considerable amount f research. What is exemplified is that quality of view and chellenge of climb is not always correlated to height. For instance, you showed the north face of Mulhacen in Spain. From experience the south side is a gentle dead easy walk. Also one minor correction. The summit of Mont Blank is solely in France. A south eastern subsidiary summit, Monte Bianco di Courmayeur is just 100 m away, and at 4736m is the official highest point in Italy
Me chilling at 1400 meters and dont even think its high:
Fantastic
Excellent video!
For those who don't know the reason why so many of these mountains are on borders because back in the old days they didn't have satelites so they used rivers and mountains as the borders of their countries.
Nonsense, Colonial (straight) borders were also drawn before satellites existed. It had to do everything with defence: mountains and bodies of water are easy to defend, so naturally that's where the borders are.
The Danube river:
let me introduce myself...
(Slovakia / Hungary, Romania / Serbia, Romania / Bulgaria, Romania / Moldavia)
By the way, Komárom HU and Komárno SK , upon Danube, used to be one town. Also Český Těšín CZ and Cieszyn PL used to be one town divided by the Olše river.
The vast majority of the central European borders were drawn right after the WWI using rivers as Danube, Ipel / Ipoly, Olše, Dráva, Tisza, Dyje, Morava, Nisa, Odra, Orlice, Flöha, Zinnbach, Ohře...
Thanks CG!
the estonian Suur Munamägi was pronounced so wrong but… im still happy that u put some effort to pronounce it.
When we came to Hungary the music that started in the background was a pretty neat choice ( has nothing to do with Hungary though. The music just started there ) I appreciate that as a fan of that game :) 👍 But ofcurse, nice video too.
This is a great video. Not only is informative but the comments show how uninformative lots of viewers are.
exactly
Indeed
Cool Channel! Pics of these peaks would be nice (when you can find them), google earth doesn't always do them justice.
Why do these not have way more views?
The majority is busy watching the Kardashians.
I didnt think i needed this but i did. Thank you. Could you do a video about highest points in each state of Germany? or Uk, france? Thanks :)
34 of Finland's highest points are located in one single municipality of Enontekiö, and 44 highest include the neighboring municipality to the south, Muonio. You can not find a peak higher than 500m outside the Lapland area.
Great video GG
3000 meters
Europeans: uff too tall
Andes and Himalaya:
Yes
For those who are curious about some other European territories and areas he left out, here are some that I found!!!
French Guyana (France): Bellevue de l'Inini, 851m/2792ft, would be at 4:37
Svalbard (Norway): Newtontoppen, 1713m/5620ft, would be at 6:19
Cyprus: Mount Olympos, 1952m/6404ft, would be at 6:35
Greenland (Denmark): Gunnbjørn Fjeld, 3700m/12,139ft would be at 12:25
The interesting thing about Halti in Finland is that Norway wanted to gift the mountain to Finland for its 100th year birthday. Unfortunately the constitution wouldn't allow it. Campaigners had proposed moving the border to give the summit to Finland, saying the change would be barely visible on the map.
True but it makes sense that land cant be given just like that
Imagine some corrupted goverment just "Gifting" land to X countries.
@@jarskil8862 I think the friendly campaign in itself was the present to the people of Finland. As for corrupt governments, when they are in they will use their majority to change a constitution. But, yeah, countries need some protection.
Good job man ! 👏
My hometown in switzerland is quite low in elevation but i just learned i live higher up than most countries have their highest point
You absolutely nailed saying Galdhøpiggen.
Hi, great video, just a minor correction if I may, the name of Olympus' highest peak, Mytikas, is the colloquial one, its formal name (found on Atlases or scientific papers) is Pantheon
An eternal controversy is the question if the Caucasus belongs to Europe or not.
North of it the Manytch plain in Russia is seen mostly as the transition area to Asia without a definable border. More or less officially the Ural mountains and the Ural River are considered as border. In this case the Russian city of Magnitogorsk is also lying on two continents, like its counterpart metropolis Istanbul.
Theoretically speaking, the highest point of the Netherlands is actually in the special municipality of Saba, which is an island in the Caribbean.
I guess you could apply that for any other nations colonies. In this video it has to be on the Eurasian plate
@@ethancoffey3491 well some territories aren't colonies but considered actual dutch land, but i agree with your point it's about land on the European Peninsula
Loving the Sinnoh pokemon route 209 song in the background
For luxembourg „buurgplatz“ was always considered the highest point in luxembourg until they found kneiff bein 1 m taller, the story is that one day a farmer just dropped 1m of dirt at that point to make it the tallest
Vaalserberg is land surface with the highest elevation in the Netherlands, but not actually the highest point in the Netherlands as suggested by the title. That would be the top of the Gerbrandytower, a TV tower in IJsselstijn. It is 50 meters higher at 372 meters.
Suur Munamägi (Big Dick Hill) is the greatest place name ever and you can't tell me otherwise
Grand Teton is good competition
Excuse sir, but in Spain we have some little islands called Canary Islands or Islas Canarias in Spanish. They are located near Africa and they belong to Spain, there’s one in particular called Tenerife, where there’s a Volcano called El Teide which is the tallest peak in Spain, with and astonishing 3718m and snow almost every year, which is pretty cool in my opinion considering the Canaries are a Hawaiian-ish islands. Just wanted to take that off my chest. Have a nice day y’all!
That’s true and all, but the Canaries aren’t a part of the Europe as they already belong to Africa (they are west of Morocco after all).
For Turkey he also only counted the highest mountain on the European side so it only seem fair to exclude the Teide
When you watch this video in Bogotá a city that it's elevation is above 2500 m: noobs
meanwhile me, watching this video 280m away from the shore at like ~1-2m elevation : " Alrighty then "
Mount Elbrus is also a dormant volcano which many other peaks in the Caucasus Range share that characteristic.
Wow. I'm surprised th he Dutch haves a highest point at over 1000 feet. I keep hearing how much they're below sea level.
Yh same, I heard if they didn't have the flood gates then a 2l3rd of the country would be underwater
They are mostly at around sea level, but near the southeastern border it's quite hilly.
@@taylorhollins6289 it's actually about 40% of our country wich is below sea level, and it really has to be a severe storm coming in from the west to actually make us close our waterkeringen.
@@FREE_CH1CKEN Is it true 90% of the Dutch speak or understand English?
@@TheMrPeteChannel Yeah, only some of us have a horrible accent wich could be hard for some people to understand.
12:10 The tallest mountain in Spain is Mount Teide in the Canary Islands. It's an active and very dangerous volcano due to it being near the largest city in the Canary Islands, Santa Cruz de Tenerife. But it doesn't count since it's in the African Continental Self. The Canary Islands are a volcanic archipelago which formed in similar waves to Cape Verde, Hawaii, Azores, or the Galapagos Islands due to volcanic activity.
Well, I'm Italian, it's funny because back at primary school they were teaching us mount Bianco being the highest mountain in Europe, they were omitting "West"🤣 Most Italians still believe in it.
It depends on where you want to draw the line between Europe and Asia. According to some of these boundary definitions the Mont Blanc is the tallest mountain in Europe
Same in my school ( but 🇫🇷)
same in Hungary 😅
@@spongebubatz monte bianco
@@vinczekatalin89 in hyngary they claiming the mont-blanc ?
For us, it’s french, not italian
Great work.Thank you.
Kazakhstan is entirely in Central Asia and not part of Europe. It's highest peak is Khan Tengri (7.010m).
Big props for trying to pronounce all of these names. I have been atop more European high points than US States high points. That just seems . . . wrong.
well, actually the peak of "monte rosa" at 13:05 is italian
No it isn't. The Dufourspitze is the highest peak of the Monte Rosa and is fully within Switzerland. The Grenzgipfel (=Border Summit) which is, as it names says at the border, is 16 meters lower.
@@earthJoker Monte Rosa is italian.
@@terza333 So why is the Dufourspitze named after a Swiss General then?
@@earthJoker Because u swiss named the mountain like that. Monte Rosa is italian
@@terza333 Yes, but the OP explicitly says 'the peak of monte rosa' and the peak of Monte Rosa is the Dufourspitze. Also, if the name of the mountain is Italian it doesn't make the peak Italian. Italian is a national language of Switzerland.
Nicely done. A good reference.
If it was just the countries in europe with their full sovereign territory but not overseas territories then Spain's highest point would be Mount Tiede on the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands
Actually now that i think about it. Portugals should have been different if they didnt do mount tiede for spain
@@YoloMenace001 the Azores are further north than the Canaries. The Canaries clearly are west of Morocco while the Azores can still be considered a part of Europe
@@YoloMenace001 Azores is european, Canaries are african
9:44 it's Gerlachovský Štít. It's often called Gerlach tho that's technically incorect.
Good video tho.
I have done 37 of them. Covid stopped me getting Belarus last year. Interesting fact the Belarus summit named after the founder of the KGB, Felix Dzerzhinsky.
Did you do the Vaalserberg? 😅
Love the content bro. Here's a sub!
Glad to see you pointed out the monte bianco peak as the shared border between Italy and France. Some French say it's theirs. And it is not
Having grown up In Torino and vacationing in Courmayeur before moving to the states, I was quiet upset when taught that Monte Bianco was in France and tried in vain to correct my teacher. I suspect the reason had something to do with the fact that when crossing the mountains via cable car, pre European Union, the passport control office was at Punta Helbronner (in Italy) rather than at Aiguille du Midi. And since you pass by Monte Bianco in that portion of the crossing, it was assumed to be in France.
@@ptrinch France claims the whole peak while Italy claims it is shared
@@remymerieux9562 Kind of. France and Italy both claimed it was shared when the border was established in 1860. Years later, France unilaterally moved the border to give themselves the peak, despite no basis for it. That being said... given my background and (assuming by your name) your background. I suspect we won't come to any agreements here. 🤣
Fun fact: The difference between my city´s highest and lowest point is the same as the altitude of Denmark highest point (not included hills and river sides)
9:47 its actually just "Gerlach" cuz "Gerlachovsky" is an adjective :)
Isn't Gerlach the name of the nearest village, Gerlachowsky Stit meaning Peak of (the village) Gerlach?
Stable video 👍
One remark: you took the highest point of European Turkey why you didn’t do the same for Kazachstan?
I think he had a weird definition of European Kazakhstan.
Edit: I just looked at Wikipedia and it named the same high point for European Kazakhstan. It’s weird because all definitions of the Eurasian Border that I know of aren’t anywhere further south eastern than the northernmost point of the Caspian Sea.
If you can include ponte delgada surely you can include tenerife!! Great video all the same and you have a new subscriber in me
no cause Azores lies in the euroasian tectonic plate, Canaries lies in African plate
Do one for the ARAB LEAGUE countries please 🙏🙏
Cool! When are Asia and Africa coming out?
I'll definitely make those videos soon!
As a Dutchman i have to say we are pathetic, we call a Hill a mountain xD
Estonian here. We do the same
@@eriknoorvali We, here in Finland, call all of the peaks in Lapland fells. Including all those 1km+ peaks of the Finnish scandis. So, I don't know where we are on this pathetic scale because no one else uses the word "fell" other than us and Swedes.
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It's fine, the Danes call a 147 m high hill "The Sky Mountain".
@@NotASummoner 🤭😂😂
Most of the mountains are snow capped Europe
Here my place we have 4 mountain above 2670 meter on of that mountain temperature always more than 30° Celsius
You should do average elevation in each country maybe.
I assume that these peaks are measured from sea-level. What if they are measured from its base as a number of countries have peaks that start in that countries uplands.
He even put Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan, but he didn't put Cyprus:(
Read my pinned comment
Please continue this series
We have to get used to the fact that there is one continent Eurasia. The frontier between Europe ans Asia seem rather arbitrarily to me.
It's actually Eurafriasia since the Sinai penninsula connects Africa and Asia
Barna Szeder, It doesn't there's suez channel
@@barnaszeder224 North America and South America are connected by Central America but are still considered separate continents.
I think it's justifiable to consider Africa and Eurasia separate continents, and the same for North and South America, because the pieces of land that connect them are extremely narrow. Nonetheless, much like the very long land boundary between Europe and Asia, even those boundaries are fuzzy.
I do agree that Europe and Asia are really one continent. The Ural mountain range that is supposed to divide them is not a very tall mountain range at all. Why isn't India a completely separate continent from Asia? Why are the puny Urals able to make Europe a separate continent but the mighty Himalayas are not?
Elbrus, Georgia & Azerbaijan are not in Europe. You should exclude them as well as you've excluded Teide on Tenerife (Spain, but Africa)
Read the pinned comment. The author simply chose a different definition of geographical Europe.