List of mountains in Poland

Sudetes

Carpathian Mountains

Świętokrzyskie
Mountains

This is a sub-article to Geography of Poland

The Sudeten and Carpathian mountain ranges are located on either side of Poland's southern border. Within Poland, neither of these ranges 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 recent Tertiary Era, are the highest mountains in the country. They are the northernmost edge of a much larger range that extends into the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine, Hungary, and Romania.

The Świętokrzyskie Mountains, one of the oldest mountain ranges in Europe, are located in central Poland, in the vicinity of the city of Kielce. The mountain range consists of a number of separate ranges, the highest of which is Łysogóry (lit. bald mountains). Together with the Jura Krakowsko-Częstochowska the mountains form a region called the Lesser Poland Upland (Wyżyna Małopolska). They were formed during the Caledonian orogeny of the Silurian period and then rejuvenated in the Hercynian orogeny of the Upper Carboniferous period.

The most known and significant mountain in Poland are the Tatra Mountains which attract many tourists from Poland and its neighbouring states.

Polish mountain ranges

Carpathian Mountains Tatra Mountains Pieniny Silesian Beskids Little Beskids Maków Beskids Żywiec Beskids Island Beskids Gorce Mountains Sącz Beskids Low Beskids Bieszczady Mountains and Sanocko-Turczańskie Mountains Sudetes Krkonoše Jizera Mountains Kaczawskie Mountains Rudawy Janowickie Wałbrzych Mountains Stone Mountains Owl Mountains Bardzkie Mountains Table Mountains Bystrzyckie Mountains Orlické hory Śnieżnik Mountains Góry Bialskie Golden Mountains Opawskie Mountains

Świętokrzyskie Mountains (Holy Cross Mountains) Klonowskie Range Bostowskie Range Oblęgorskie Range Masłowskie Range Łysogóry Jeleniowskie Range Zgórskie Range Posłowickie Range Dymińskie Range Brzechowskie Range Orłowińskie Range Iwaniskie Range Wygiełzowskie Range Chęcińskie Range Bolechowickie Range Daleszyckie Range Cisowskie Range Ociesęckie Range

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