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'''Khüiten Peak''' ({{lang-mn|Хүйтэн оргил}}, ''lit.'' ''"cold peak"'' ; also as '''Friendship Peak''' in China; {{lang|zh-hans|友谊峰|p=Yǒuyì Fēng}}) is the highest point in [[Mongolia]], on the west side of the country along the border with [[PRC|China]]. It is 4,374 m (14,350 feet, previously 4,356 m) high and has a permanent snow cap.
In the past, Khüiten Peak was officially known as the "Friendship Peak" (Nairamdal Uul (Найрамдал Уул) in Mongolian, or Youyi Feng 友谊峰 in Chinese).<ref name=krumweide2014.499>See e.g. the index in {{harvnb|Krumwiede|Kamp|Leonard|Kargel|2014}}; or see the Soviet [http://www.mountain.ru/world_mounts/altai/2006/M45-104.jpg Topo map M45-104], scale 1:100,000, where the name Mt. Nairamdal (г. Найрамдал) is associated with the peak whose elevation is 4374.0 m. The highest peak is also referred to as Nairamdal in {{harvnb|Chistyakov|Ganiushkin|2015|p=209}}</ref>
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