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Ghent Kangri Mountains
Ghent Kangri is a part of the Saltoro Mountains and is the sixty-ninth highest mountain in the world.

Ghent Kangri is also known as Mount Ghent or Ghaint I. Ghent Kangri is a part of the Saltoro Mountains which is a subrange of the Karakoram range which is in the Ladakh district of Jammu and Kashmir. Situated at a height of 7,401 metres (24,281 feet) above mean sea level Ghent Kangri is located in the north end of Saltoro Mountains.

It is the sixty-ninth highest mountain in the world. The geographic coordinates of the mountain are 35°31`03 North 76°48`01 East. The mountain prominence ( it is a measure of vertical separation between mountains) of Ghent Kangri is 1,493 meters (4,898 feet). The parent mountain of Ghent Kangri is Saltoro Kangri.

(Last Updated on : 22/01/2009)
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