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Kula Kangri

Mountain in Tibet and/or Bhutan

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Bhutan once claimed Kula Kangri. The claim was relinquished in the 1980s, with Bhutan attributing it to a cartographic error. The current borderline runs through the higher Gangkar Puensum.

Kula Kangri is considered one of the four sacred mountains of Central Tibet.

Peaks

The current consensus height is 7,538 m (24,731 ft). A former height given was in the past 7,554 m (24,783 ft), but other sources had the current height by 2011. To its east within 2.5 km (1.6 mi), it has central and eastern peaks that are 7,418 m (24,337 ft) and 7,381 m (24,216 ft) high.

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