{"id":4235,"date":"2019-08-12T01:44:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T01:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/?p=4235"},"modified":"2019-08-13T06:45:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T05:45:47","slug":"the-highest-point-mountain-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/the-highest-point-mountain-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"The Highest Point (Mountain) In Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <b>Chappal Waddi <\/b>mountain,\u00a0popularly called the <b>Gangirwal Mountain <\/b>is the highest point in Nigeria and West Africa (excluding Cameroon as it is in Central Africa). It is also called the mountain of death and located in Taraba state <span class=\"st\">which lies largely within the middle of Nigeria and consists of undulating landscape dotted with a few mountainous features.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Gangirwal mountain is 7,936 ft or 2,419 meters above sea level making it as the highest point ahead of Tsaunin and Kumari in Niger and Borno states respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Find list of the 7 highest points in Nigeria below.<\/p>\n<table width=\"431\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"27\">1<\/td>\n<td width=\"129\">Taraba State<\/td>\n<td width=\"145\">Chappal Waddi<\/td>\n<td width=\"130\">2,419\u00a0m (7,936\u00a0ft)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"27\">2<\/td>\n<td width=\"129\">Niger State<\/td>\n<td width=\"145\">Tsaunin Kwaiki<\/td>\n<td width=\"130\">2,359\u00a0m (7,740\u00a0ft)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"27\">3<\/td>\n<td width=\"129\">Borno State<\/td>\n<td width=\"145\">Kumari<\/td>\n<td width=\"130\">2,280\u00a0m (7,480\u00a0ft)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"27\">4<\/td>\n<td width=\"129\">Adamawa State<\/td>\n<td width=\"145\">Mount Dimlang<\/td>\n<td width=\"130\">2,042\u00a0m (6,699\u00a0ft)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"27\">5<\/td>\n<td width=\"129\">Cross River State<\/td>\n<td width=\"145\">Sankwala Mountains<\/td>\n<td width=\"130\">1,800\u00a0m (5,906\u00a0ft)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"27\">6<\/td>\n<td width=\"129\">Bauchi State<\/td>\n<td width=\"145\">Masaijeh Hill<\/td>\n<td width=\"130\">1,593\u00a0m (5,226\u00a0ft)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"27\">7<\/td>\n<td width=\"129\">Plateau State<\/td>\n<td width=\"145\">Shere Hills<\/td>\n<td width=\"130\">1,829\u00a0m (6,001\u00a0ft)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chappal Waddi mountain,\u00a0popularly called the Gangirwal Mountain is the highest point in Nigeria and West Africa (excluding Cameroon as &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"The Highest Point (Mountain) In Nigeria\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/the-highest-point-mountain-in-nigeria\/#more-4235\" aria-label=\"More on The Highest Point (Mountain) In Nigeria\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[42,44,41,43],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6w1sx-16j","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286958,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235\/revisions\/286958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}