Nepal and China have jointly announced revised height of Mount Everest.
After working for a year on processing data regarding the measurement of the world's highest peak, Nepal and China have jointly announced revised height of the Mount Everest on Tuesday 08 December 2020, as 8,848.86 Meters.
Accordingly, the new height is 86 Cms more than the previous measurement.
Nepal undertook the initiation to measure the height of the world's tallest peak after speculations that widely accepted that the height of 8,848 metres might not be the actual length after the 2015 earthquake which shook the nation.
While Deployed Nepali officials and experts to re-measure the mountain's height, the Government of Nepal also coordinated with China in its domestic efforts. During Chinese President Xi Jinping's Nepal visit in 2019, both nations signed an agreement to jointly announce the height of the world's tallest peak.
Measured in 1954 by Survey of India, 8,848 metres was the widely accepted and recognized height of "Sagarmatha" till 08 December 2020, the Nepali name for the famed world's tallest peak.
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