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List of the highest major summits of North America

The following sortable table comprises the 403 mountain peaks of greater North America with at least of elevation and at least of topographic prominence.

The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways:

  1. The topographic elevation of a summit measures the height of the summit above a geodetic sea level.
  2. The topographic prominence of a summit is a measure of how high the summit rises above its surroundings.
  3. The topographic isolation (or radius of dominance) of a summit measures how far the summit lies from its nearest point of equal elevation.

In greater North America, only Denali exceeds elevation. Three major summits exceed , 11 exceed , 21 exceed , 124 exceed , 277 exceed , and the following 403 major summits exceed elevation.

Major 3000-meter summits

Of the 403 major 3000-meter summits of greater North America, 299 are located in the United States (excluding three in Hawaii), 67 in Canada, 30 in México, and eight in Guatemala, four in Greenland, two in Costa Rica, and one each in Panamá and the Dominican Republic. Eight of these peaks lie on the Canada-United States border and one lies on the México-Guatemala border. Additional references and maps for the 200 highest of these major summits can be found on the List of the highest major summits of North America.

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