Mount Everest means "Mother Earth".
in Tibetan, "jo-moglang-malib" means "mother of the earth". In Tibetan, Jo-mo "Mount Qomolangma" means the goddess, and Lang-Ma "glang-ma" should be understood as the female elephant (in Tibetan, Lang-ma has two meanings: Yanagi Takayama and the female elephant).
The Nepalese name is Sagarmatha, which means "Goddess of the Sky". This name was given by the Nepalese government in the 196s. Because the Nepalese people didn't name this mountain before, and the government didn't choose to use transliteration for political reasons.
In p>1952, the government of China changed its name to Mount Everest. In 1952, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the General Administration of Publication of the Central People's Government of China informed that the "Mount Everest" should be renamed "Mount Everest".
In p>22, People's Daily published an article arguing that the English name "Mount Everest" used in the western world should be renamed as its Tibetan name "Mount Everest". According to the newspaper, the symbol on the map of China was named "Mount Everest" 28 years before the English name "Mount Everest" was used in the west.
Taiwan Province has traditionally called this mountain "Mount Everest".
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Historically, the debate about the height of Mount Everest has never stopped. In the past 2 years, scientists from all over the world have made more than ten measurements. The famous ones are:
In p>1987, the Italian Adito De Gio measured the elevation of Mount Everest as 8872 meters;
In p>1992, Italian scientist Giorgio Pridi measured the height of Mount Everest at 8846.1m;
In p>1999, Brandford Vosburn, the chief planner and implementer of the "Millennium Everest Survey" in the United States, announced that the survey result was 8,85 meters.
The climber climbs the overall height. Nepalese and others use the snow cover height (overall height) of 8,848 meters (29,29 feet) used by climbers. In 25, the rock surface height (bare height or geological height) measured by China State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping was 8,844.43 meters. Since 21, the measurement data of the two heights have been recognized.
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