What is the elevation of Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest mountain?

Mount Kilimanjaro’s elevation is 5,895 metres above sea level.

Kilimanjaro is a volcanic massif in northeastern Tanzania, near the border with Kenya. It has three volcanic cones: Kibo, Mawenzi, and Shira. Uhuru Peak, on Kibo, is the mountain’s highest point and the summit generally meant by its official elevation.

Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in Africa and the world’s highest free-standing mountain, meaning it is not part of a larger mountain range. Its slopes pass through cultivated land, forest, heath, alpine desert, and an ice-covered summit zone.

Kibo is dormant rather than extinct, while Mawenzi and Shira are extinct volcanic cones. Despite its equatorial location, Kilimanjaro historically supported glaciers, although those ice fields have substantially declined over the past century.