Mount Kinyeti is the highest peak in South Sudan.
It is located in the Imatong Mountains in Ikotos County of Eastern Equatoria, near the Ugandan border.
Kinyeti has an elevation of 3,187 metres (10,456 ft) above sea level.
[3] The lower parts of the mountain were covered with lush forest.
[6] One of the first Europeans to visit the mountain was the botanist Thomas Ford Chipp, who discovered Coreopsis chippii near the summit.