On Tuesday, Nepal, and China jointly declared that the revised height of the highest peak in the world, Mount Everest, was 8,848.86 meters, around 86cm more than India's previous measurement in 1954.

In the light of debates that there may have been a shift in it for various reasons, including the devastating earthquake of 2015, the Nepal government agreed to measure the exact height of the mountain.

China and Nepal jointly declared on Tuesday the new height of Mt Everest, the highest peak in the world, is 8,848.86 meters, China's state-run Xinhua news agency said in a brief article.

As Foreign Minister Pradeep Gyawali announced in Kathmandu, Nepal is recalculating the height of Mount Everest at 8,848.86 meters.

The latest height exceeds the previous measurement by 86cm. According to the 1954 Survey of India survey, the height of Mount Everest is 8,848 meters.

Earlier, media reports said that Chinese surveyors performed six scaled measurement rounds and scientific analysis on Mount Everest and published the peak height twice in 1975 and 2005, which was 8,848.13 meters and 8,844.43 meters, respectively.

Mount Everest is known as Mount Qomolangma in the Tibetan language.

In 1961, with the boundary line passing through the summit of Mount Everest, China and Nepal resolved their border conflict.

Mount Everest, where crustal movement is very active, is located in the collision and compression zone between the edges of the Indian plate and the Eurasian plate.

"Accurately measuring the height of Mount Qomolangma is helpful to the study of the elevation changes of the Himalayas and Qinghai-Tibet Plateau," Gao Dengyi, an atmospheric physicist with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, told Chinese state media earlier.