According to the Book of Genesis, on what mountains did Noah's Ark come to rest after the Flood?

According to the Book of Genesis, Noah's Ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat after the Flood.

Genesis does not name a single peak called Mount Ararat in this passage. It uses the Hebrew expression “mountains of Ararat,” referring to the land or region associated with Ararat. Ararat was an ancient kingdom generally linked with the area around Lake Van in eastern Anatolia and the Armenian Highlands.

The wording has often been connected with Mount Ararat, the famous volcanic mountain in modern eastern Turkey. That identification is traditional, but the biblical text itself does not say that the Ark landed on that particular summit. This distinction is a common source of confusion in retellings.

Later Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and popular traditions proposed different locations for the Ark. Genesis itself gives only the regional phrase, making “the mountains of Ararat” the most precise answer based on the text.