Sudetes

Carpathian Mountains

Świętokrzyskie
Mountains

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Two major mountain ranges populate Poland's south-east and south-west borders, respectively: theSudetes andCarpathian Mountainsmountain ranges. Those ranges are located both within and outside of Poland. Within Poland, neither of them is forbidding enough to prevent substantial habitation; the Carpathians are especially densely populated. The rugged form of the Sudeten range derives from the geological shifts that formed the later Carpathian uplift. The Carpathians in Poland, formed as a discrete topographical unit in the relatively recentTertiary Era, are the highest mountains in the country. They are the northernmost edge of a much larger range that extends into theCzech Republic,Slovakia,Ukraine,Hungary, andRomania.

TheŚwiętokrzyskie Mountains, one of the oldest mountain ranges in Europe, are located in centralPoland, in the vicinity of the city ofKielce. The mountain range consists of a number of separate ranges, the highest of which isŁysogóry (lit.bald mountains). Together with theJura Krakowsko-Częstochowska the mountains form a region called theLesser Poland Upland (Wyżyna Małopolska). They were formed during theCaledonianorogeny of theSilurian period and then rejuvenated in theHercynian orogeny of the UpperCarboniferous period.

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