China contains Mount Everest’s northern summit side on the mountain’s border with Nepal.
Mount Everest stands in the Himalayas along the China–Nepal border. Its northern slope lies in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, while its southern climbing route begins in Nepal’s Sagarmatha National Park. The summit itself lies on the international boundary rather than entirely inside one country.
The mountain’s official elevation is 8,848.86 meters above sea level, according to the joint Nepal–China measurement announced in 2020. Earlier surveys produced slightly different figures because of changing methods, snow conditions, and definitions of the summit’s upper surface.
Everest was called Peak XV by the Survey of India before being named for British surveyor George Everest. In Nepal it is Sagarmatha, and in Tibet it is Chomolungma. The summit is therefore associated with multiple names, but China is the country on its northern side.