Carpathian mountains

Carpathians (Karpati, German Karpaten, Slovak). Karpaty, Hungarian. K&aacute rp&aacute tok, Rum. Carpaţ i, Serb. Carpathi) is a mountain system in Central Europe, on the territory of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine (Transcarpathian, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk regions), Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia and partly Austria (Hundsheimer Berge at Heinburg on the Danube and Niederosterreich Inzelbergschwelle at Mistelbach).

The absolute heights of the mountain system range from 120-400 m at the foot of the mountains to 500-800 m in the intermountain depressions and 1500-2000 m along the main ridges. Mountains more than 2000 m high: Hoverla (2061 m) is the highest point of Ukraine.