Key facts
- Peak
- Gerlachovský štít
- Elevation
- 2,655 m (8,711 ft)
- Countries
- Slovakia, Austria, Czech Republic , Poland and Hungary
- Regions
- Lesser Poland , Moravia and Weinviertel
- Parent range
- Carpathian Mountains
- Orogeny
- alpine orogeny
- Rock type s
- granite , limestone , sandstone , andesite
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- physiographic province
- Part of
- Carpathians
- Has part
- Subcarpathia
- Country
- Austria
- Elevation
- 2655
- Highest point
- Gerlachovský štít
- Material used
- granite
- Image
- Mała Bystra a1.jpg
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- Commons category
- Western Carpathians
- topic's main category
- Category:Western Carpathians
- mountain range
- Carpathians
- geomorphological unit
- Carpathians
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- Western Carpathians
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Encyclopedic overview
The Western Carpathians (Czech: Západní Karpaty) are a mountain range and geomorphological province that forms the western part of the Carpathian Mountains.
The mountain belt stretches from the Low Beskids range of the Eastern Carpathians along the border of Poland with Slovakia toward the Moravian region of the Czech Republic and the Austrian Weinviertel. In the south the North Hungarian Mountains cover northern Hungary. The area of the Western Carpathians comprises about 70,000 km. The highest elevation is the Gerlachovský štít (2,655m) situated in the High Tatra Mountains.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Western Carpathians” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.