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Mount Kongō | |
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金剛山 Kongō-san | |
![]() Mount Kongō viewed from
Mount Yamato Katsuragi (February 2010). | |
Highest point | |
Elevation | 1,125 m (3,691 ft) |
Coordinates | 34°25′10″N 135°40′23″E / 34.419444°N 135.673056°E |
Naming | |
English translation | Vajra Mountain |
Language of name | Japanese |
Geography | |
Mount Kongō is located between
Chihayaakasaka and
Gose, Japan | |
Parent range | Kongō Range |
Mount Kongō (金剛山, Kongō-san) is a 1,125-metre-high (3,691 ft) mountain in the Kongō Range in the Kawachi region of Osaka Prefecture, Kansai, Japan. [1] It is near Mount Yamato Katsuragi.
The mountain has lent its name to a series of naval ships and ship classes: the Imperial Japanese Navy's 1877 ironclad Kongō; the 1912 battleship Kongō, the name ship of her class; and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force's current destroyer Kongō (DDG-173), also the name ship of her class.
![]() | You can help expand this article with text translated from
the corresponding article in Japanese. (October 2021) Click [show] for important translation instructions.
|
Mount Kongō | |
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金剛山 Kongō-san | |
![]() Mount Kongō viewed from
Mount Yamato Katsuragi (February 2010). | |
Highest point | |
Elevation | 1,125 m (3,691 ft) |
Coordinates | 34°25′10″N 135°40′23″E / 34.419444°N 135.673056°E |
Naming | |
English translation | Vajra Mountain |
Language of name | Japanese |
Geography | |
Mount Kongō is located between
Chihayaakasaka and
Gose, Japan | |
Parent range | Kongō Range |
Mount Kongō (金剛山, Kongō-san) is a 1,125-metre-high (3,691 ft) mountain in the Kongō Range in the Kawachi region of Osaka Prefecture, Kansai, Japan. [1] It is near Mount Yamato Katsuragi.
The mountain has lent its name to a series of naval ships and ship classes: the Imperial Japanese Navy's 1877 ironclad Kongō; the 1912 battleship Kongō, the name ship of her class; and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force's current destroyer Kongō (DDG-173), also the name ship of her class.