The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians (/ k ɑːr ˈ p eɪ θ i ən z /) are a range of mountains forming an arc across Central Europe and Southeast Europe. Roughly 1,500 km (930 mi) long, it is the third-longest European mountain range after the Urals at 2,500 km (1,600 mi) and the Scandinavian Mountains at 1,700 km (1,100 mi).

2024年10月7日 · Slovakia is the Carpathians’ secret jewel and it is home to the range’s highest peak, Gerlachovský štít (2,655m) in the Tatra Mountains. This colossal limestone landscape forms a natural border between northern Slovakia and Poland and the mountains here are often referred to as the Slovakian Alps.

The Tatra Mountains (pronounced ⓘ), Tatras (Tatry either in Slovak (pronounced ⓘ) or in Polish (pronounced) - plurale tantum, Hungarian: Tátra), are a series of mountains within the Western Carpathians that form a natural border between Slovakia and Poland.

The Slovak-Moravian Carpathians (CZ/SK: Slovensko-moravské Karpaty) are the mountain ranges along the border of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Before the Treaty of Trianon in 1920, it was known in Hungarian as Magyar-morva határhegység 'the …

2021年3月21日 · The Carpathian Mountains cover a total area of about 200,000 km 2 and the width of the mountain chain varies between 12 and 500 km. Situated on the boundary between Slovakia and Poland is the Tatra Mountain Range, the highest range in the Carpathian Mountains.

2025年1月24日 · Carpathian Mountains, a geologically young European mountain chain forming the eastward continuation of the Alps. From the Danube Gap, near Bratislava, Slovakia, they swing in a wide crescent-shaped arc some 900 miles (1,450 kilometres) long to near Orşova, Romania, at the portion of the Danube River valley called the Iron Gate.

The Carpathian Mountains [1] are the eastern wing of the great Central Mountain System of Central Europe, curving 1500 km (~900 miles) along the borders of Romania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Ukraine, Austria, Serbia, and northern Hungary.

2025年1月24日 · The principal mountain groups are the Slovak Ore Mountains (Slovenské Rudohorie), with Stolica (4,846 feet) as the highest peak; they are built of metamorphic rocks and of sedimentaries of the Paleozoic Era (more than 250 million years old).

2023年12月14日 · It’s within the complex, corrugated system of the Western Carpathians that span from the east to the west, that one finds the highest mountains in Slovakia. In fact, they’re concentrated in one region known as the High Tatras. This is where we’ll head now as we seek out Slovakia’s highest peak.

Carpathian Mountains, Mountain system, eastern Europe. It extends along the Slovakia-Poland border and southward through Ukraine and eastern Romania about 900 mi (1,450 km). Its highest peak, Gerlachovka (in Slovakia), rises 8,711 ft (2,655 m).