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Geography of the Alps, the Glossary

The Alps form a large mountain range dominating Central Europe, including parts of Italy, France, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, Slovenia, Germany and Hungary.^[1]

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Aare

The Aare or Aar is the main tributary of the High Rhine (its discharge even exceeds that of the latter at their confluence) and the longest river that both rises and ends entirely within Switzerland.

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Adda (river)

The Adda (Latin: Abdua, or Addua; Lombard: Ada or, again, Adda in local dialects where the double consonants are marked) is a river in North Italy, a tributary of the Po.

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Adige

The Adige (Etsch; Àdexe; Adisch; Adesc; Athesis; Áthesis, or label) is the second-longest river in Italy, after the Po.

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Aiguille de la Grande Sassière

Aiguille de la Grande Sassière is a mountain in the Graian Alps, on the boundary between the Aosta Valley (northern Italy) and the French department of Savoie.

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Aletsch Glacier

The Aletsch Glacier (Aletschgletscher) or Great Aletsch Glacier (Grosser Aletschgletscher) is the largest glacier in the Alps.

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Alpine Club classification of the Eastern Alps

The Alpine Club classification of the Eastern Alps (Alpenvereinseinteilung der Ostalpen, AVE) is a common division of the Eastern Alps into 75 mountain ranges, based on the Moriggl Classification (ME) first published in 1924 by the German and Austrian Alpine Club. Geography of the Alps and Alpine Club classification of the Eastern Alps are alps.

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Alps

The Alps are one of the highest and most extensive mountain ranges in Europe, stretching approximately across eight Alpine countries (from west to east): Monaco, France, Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria and Slovenia. Geography of the Alps and Alps are Physiographic provinces.

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Ankogel

The Ankogel (3,252 m) is a mountain in the Ankogel Group in the eastern High Tauern range in Austria.

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Apennine Mountains

The Apennines or Apennine Mountains (Ἀπέννινα ὄρη or Ἀπέννινον ὄρος; Appenninus or Apenninus Mons– a singular with plural meaning; Appennini)Latin Apenninus (Greek Ἀπέννινος or Ἀπέννινα) has the form of an adjective, which would be segmented Apenn-inus, often used with nouns such as mons ("mountain") or Greek ὄρος, but Apenninus is just as often used alone as a noun. Geography of the Alps and Apennine Mountains are Physiographic provinces.

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Appenzell Alps

The Appenzell Alps (Appenzeller Alpen) are a mountain range in Switzerland on the northern edge of the Alps.

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Austria

Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps.

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Austroalpine nappes

The Austroalpine nappes are a geological nappe stack in the European Alps.

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Balkans

The Balkans, corresponding partially with the Balkan Peninsula, is a geographical area in southeastern Europe with various geographical and historical definitions.

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Barre des Écrins

The Barre des Écrins is a mountain in the French Alps with a peak elevation of.

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Basement (geology)

In geology, basement and crystalline basement are crystalline rocks lying above the mantle and beneath all other rocks and sediments.

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Bernese Alps

The Bernese Alps (Berner Alpen, Alpes bernoises, Alpi bernesi) are a mountain range of the Alps, located in western Switzerland.

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Black Forest

The Black Forest (Schwarzwald) is a large forested mountain range in the state of Baden-Württemberg in southwest Germany, bounded by the Rhine Valley to the west and south and close to the borders with France and Switzerland.

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Blinnenhorn

The Blinnenhorn (German) or Corno Cieco (Italian) is a mountain in the Lepontine Alps, located on the border between Italy and Switzerland.

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Bohemian Forest

The Bohemian Forest, known in Czech as and in German as, is a low mountain range in Central Europe.

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Bregenz Forest

The Bregenzerwald (Bregenzerwald) is one of the main regions in the state of Vorarlberg (Austria).

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Brenner Pass

The Brenner Pass (Brennerpass, shortly Brenner; Passo del Brennero) is a mountain pass over the Alps which forms the border between Italy and Austria.

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Carpathian Mountains

The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians are a range of mountains forming an arc across Central Europe and Southeast Europe. Geography of the Alps and Carpathian Mountains are Physiographic provinces.

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Central Eastern Alps

The Central Eastern Alps (Zentralalpen or Zentrale Ostalpen), also referred to as Austrian Central Alps (Österreichische Zentralalpen) or just Central Alps, comprise the main chain of the Eastern Alps in Austria and the adjacent regions of Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Italy and Slovenia.

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Central Europe

Central Europe is a geographical region of Europe between Eastern, Southern, Western and Northern Europe.

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Chablais Alps

The Chablais Alps (Massif du Chablais) are a mountain range in the Western Alps.

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Col de Montgenèvre

The Col de Montgenèvre (elevation 1860 m.) is a high mountain pass in the Cottian Alps, in France 2 kilometres away from Italy.

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Col de Tende

Col de Tende (Colle di Tenda; elevation 1870 m) is a high mountain pass in the Alps, close to the border between France and Italy, although the highest section of the pass is wholly within France.

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Col des Montets

Col des Montets (elevation) is a mountain pass in the French Alps in the Haute-Savoie department of France.

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Col du Fréjus

Col du Fréjus (el. 2,542 metres) is a mountain col path in the Cottian Alps on the border between France and Italy.

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Col Ferret

The Col Ferret (or Grand Col Ferret) is an Alpine pass between the canton of Valais and the Aosta Valley. It is crossed by the route of the Tour du Mont Blanc.

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Colle di Cadibona

Colle di Cadibona - - is a mountain pass between Savona and Altare in the Ligurian Alps, delineating the boundary with the Apennine Mountains.

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Cottian Alps

The Cottian Alps (Alpes Cottiennes; Alpi Cozie) are a mountain range in the southwestern part of the Alps.

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Danube

The Danube (see also other names) is the second-longest river in Europe, after the Volga in Russia.

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Dauphiné Alps

The Dauphiné Alps (Alpes du Dauphiné) are a group of mountain ranges in Southeastern France, west of the main chain of the Alps.

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Dinaric Alps

The Dinaric Alps, also Dinarides, are a mountain range in Southern and Southcentral Europe, separating the continental Balkan Peninsula from the Adriatic Sea. Geography of the Alps and Dinaric Alps are Physiographic provinces.

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Dolomites

The Dolomites (Dolomiti), also known as the Dolomite Mountains, Dolomite Alps or Dolomitic Alps, are a mountain range in northeastern Italy.

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Dora Baltea

Dora Baltea or Doire Baltée is a river in northwestern Italy.

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Drainage basin

A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean.

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Drava

The Drava or Drave (Drau,; Drava; Drava; Dráva; Drava), historically known as the Dravis or Dravus, is a river in southern Central Europe. by Jürgen Utrata (2014). Retrieved 10 Apr 2014. With a length of,, 27 November 2014 or, if the length of its Sextner Bach source is added, it is the fifth or sixth longest tributary of the Danube, after the Tisza, Sava, Prut, Mureș and likely Siret.

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Drôme (river)

The Drôme (Droma), a river in southeastern France, a left tributary of the Rhône.

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Dunkelsteinerwald

The Dunkelsteinerwald is a hill country south of the Danube in the Mostviertel region of Lower Austria.

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Durance

The Durance (Durença in the Occitan classical norm or Durènço in the Mistralian norm) is a major river in Southeastern France.

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Eastern Alps

The Eastern Alps are usually defined as the area east of a line from Lake Constance and the Alpine Rhine valley, up to the Splügen Pass at the Alpine divide, and down the Liro River to Lake Como in the south.

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Electoral boundary delimitation

Electoral boundary delimitation (or simply boundary delimitation or delimitation) is the drawing of boundaries of electoral precincts and related divisions involved in elections, such as states, counties or other municipalities.

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Engadin window

The Engadin window or (Lower Engadin window) is a tectonic window that exposes penninic units lying below the austroalpine units in the alpine nappe stack.

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Enns (river)

The Enns is a southern tributary of the river Danube in Austria, joining northward at the city of Enns.

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Fault (geology)

In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movements.

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Finsteraarhorn

The Finsteraarhorn is a mountain lying on the border between the cantons of Bern and Valais.

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Floodplain

A floodplain or flood plain or bottomlands is an area of land adjacent to a river.

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Flysch

Flysch is a sequence of sedimentary rock layers that progress from deep-water and turbidity flow deposits to shallow-water shales and sandstones.

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Foothills or piedmont are geographically defined as gradual increases in elevation at the base of a mountain range, higher hill range or an upland area.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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Fuorn Pass

Fuorn Pass or Ofen Pass (Romansh: Pass dal Fuorn, Ofenpass, Passo del Forno) (el. 2149 m.) is a high alpine mountain pass in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

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Furka Pass

Furka Pass (Furkapass; Col de la Furka) is a high mountain pass in the southern Swiss Alps connecting Gletsch, Valais with Realp, Uri via the seasonal Furkapassroute.

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Geology of the Alps

The Alps form part of a Cenozoic orogenic belt of mountain chains, called the Alpide belt, that stretches through southern Europe and Asia from the Atlantic all the way to the Himalayas. Geography of the Alps and Geology of the Alps are alps.

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Gerichtsberg Pass

Gerichtsberg Pass (el.) is a low mountain pass near to Hainfeld in the Austrian Alps in the Bundesland of Lower Austria.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Glacier

A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving downhill under its own weight.

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Glarus Alps

The Glarus Alps (Glarner Alpen) are a mountain range in central Switzerland.

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Gotthard Pass

The Gotthard Pass or St.

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Graian Alps

The Graian Alps (Alpes grées; Alpi Graie) are a mountain range in the western part of the Alps.

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Gran Paradiso

The Gran Paradiso or Grand Paradis is a mountain in the Graian Alps in Italy, located between the Aosta Valley and Piedmont regions.

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Great St Bernard Pass

The Great St Bernard Pass (Col du Grand St-Bernard, Colle del Gran San Bernardo, Grosser Sankt Bernhard; Pass del Grond Son Bernard) is the third highest road pass in Switzerland, at an elevation of.

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Greywacke zone

The greywacke zone is a band of Paleozoic metamorphosed sedimentary rocks that forms an east-west band through the Austrian Alps.

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Grimsel Pass

The Grimsel Pass (Grimselpass; Col du Grimsel; Passo del Grimsel) is a mountain pass in Switzerland, crossing the Bernese Alps at an elevation of.

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Grisons

The Grisons or Graubünden,Names include.

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Großvenediger

Großvenediger is the main peak of the Venediger Group within the Hohe Tauern mountain range, on the border of the Austrian state of Tyrol (East Tyrol) with Salzburg.

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Grossglockner

The Grossglockner (Großglockner), or just Glockner, is, at 3,798 metres above the Adriatic (12,461 ft), the highest mountain in Austria and the highest mountain in the Alps east of the Brenner Pass.

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Helvetic nappes

The Helvetic nappes (Helvetische Decken) are a series of nappes in the Northern part of the Alps and part of the Helvetic zone.

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High Alps

The High Alps are the parts of the Alps unsuitable for habitation or seasonal transhumance. Geography of the Alps and High Alps are alps and Climate of the Alps.

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High Tauern

The High Tauern (pl.; Hohe Tauern, Alti Tauri) are a mountain range on the main chain of the Central Eastern Alps, comprising the highest peaks east of the Brenner Pass.

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Hinterrhein (river)

The Hinterrhein (Ragn Posteriur; Rein Posteriur; Rain Posteriur; Ragn posteriour; Reno Posteriore), or Posterior Rhine, is the right of the two initial tributaries of the Rhine (the other being the Vorderrhein).

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Hochfeiler

The Hochfeiler (Gran Pilastro; Hochfeiler) is a mountain, 3,510 metres high, and the highest peak in the Zillertal Alps on the border between Tyrol, Austria, and South Tyrol, Italy.

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Hochgolling

The Hochgolling (2,862 m) is a mountain of the Eastern Alps, located on the border of Steiermark and Salzburg, Austria, near the ski resort of Schladming.

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Hochschwab

The Hochschwab in the Upper Styria is a mountain,, and the highest summit in the eponymous mountain range.

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Hochtor

Hochtor, at, is the highest mountain in the Ennstaler Alps, part of the Northern Limestone Alps, in Styria, Austria.

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Hohe Tauern window

The Hohe Tauern window is a geological structure in the Austrian Central Eastern Alps.

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Hungary

Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe.

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Idrija

Idrija (in older sources Zgornja Idrija; (Ober)idria, Idria) is a town in western Slovenia.

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Inn (river)

The Inn (Aenus; En) is a river in Switzerland, Austria and Germany.

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Isère (river)

The Isère (Isera; Isèra) is a river in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of southeastern France.

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Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.

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Julian Alps

The Julian Alps (Julijske Alpe, Alpi Giulie,,, Julische Alpen) are a mountain range of the Southern Limestone Alps that stretch from northeastern Italy to Slovenia, where they rise to 2,864 m at Mount Triglav, the highest peak in Slovenia.

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Jungfrau

The Jungfrau ("maiden, virgin"), at is one of the main summits of the Bernese Alps, located between the northern canton of Bern and the southern canton of Valais, halfway between Interlaken and Fiesch.

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Jura Mountains

The Jura Mountains are a sub-alpine mountain range a short distance north of the Western Alps and mainly demarcate a long part of the French–Swiss border. Geography of the Alps and Jura Mountains are Physiographic provinces.

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Kamnik–Savinja Alps

The Kamnik–Savinja Alps (Kamniško-Savinjske Alpe) are a mountain range of the Southern Limestone Alps.

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Karst

Karst is a topography formed from the dissolution of soluble carbonate rocks such as limestone, dolomite, and gypsum.

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Lake Como

Lake Como (Lago di Como), also known as Lario, is a lake of glacial origin in Lombardy, Italy. It has an area of, making it the third-largest lake in Italy, after Lake Garda and Lake Maggiore. At over deep, it is the fifth-deepest lake in Europe and the deepest outside Norway; the bottom of the lake is below sea level.

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Lake Constance

Lake Constance (Bodensee) refers to three bodies of water on the Rhine at the northern foot of the Alps: Upper Lake Constance (Obersee), Lower Lake Constance (Untersee), and a connecting stretch of the Rhine, called the Seerhein.

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Lake Garda

Lake Garda (Lago di Garda,, or (Lago) Benaco,; Lach de Garda; Ƚago de Garda) is the largest lake in Italy.

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Lake Geneva

Lake Geneva (Léman, lac Léman, rarely lac de Genève; Lago Lemano; Genfersee; Lai da Genevra) is a deep lake on the north side of the Alps, shared between Switzerland and France.

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Lake Maggiore

Lake Maggiore (Lago Maggiore; Lagh Maggior; Lagh Magior; literally 'greater lake') or Verbano (Lacus Verbanus) is a large lake located on the south side of the Alps.

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Lake Neuchâtel

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Lepontine Alps

The Lepontine Alps (Lepontinische Alpen, Alpes lépontines, Alpi Lepontine) are a mountain range in the north-western part of the Alps.

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Liechtenstein

Liechtenstein, officially the Principality of Liechtenstein (Fürstentum Liechtenstein), is a doubly landlocked German-speaking microstate in the Central European Alps, between Austria in the east and north and Switzerland in the west and south.

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Ligurian Alps

The Ligurian Alps are a mountain range in northwestern Italy.

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List of national parks in the Alps

This is a list of national parks in the Alps.

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Lithology

The lithology of a rock unit is a description of its physical characteristics visible at outcrop, in hand or core samples, or with low magnification microscopy.

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Little Carpathians

The Little Carpathians (also: Lesser Carpathians, Malé Karpaty; Kleine Karpaten; Kis-Kárpátok) are a low mountain range, about 100 km long, and part of the Carpathian Mountains.

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Little St Bernard Pass

The Little St Bernard Pass (French: Col du Petit Saint-Bernard, Italian: Colle del Piccolo San Bernardo) is a mountain pass in the Alps on the France–Italy border.

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Lunghin Pass

Lunghin Pass is a mountain pass (2645 m) and a triple watershed near Piz Lunghin in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.

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Lyon

Lyon (Franco-Provençal: Liyon), formerly spelled in English as Lyons, is the second largest city of France by urban area It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, northeast of Saint-Étienne.

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Maddalena Pass

The Maddalena Pass (Italian: Colle della Maddalena French: Col de Larche, historically Col de l'Argentière) (elevation 1996 m.) is a high mountain pass between the Cottian Alps and the Maritime Alps, located on the border between Italy and France.

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Maloja Pass

Maloja Pass (Italian: Passo del Maloja, German: Malojapass) (1815m a.s.l.) is a high mountain pass in the Swiss Alps in the canton of Graubünden, linking the Engadine with the Val Bregaglia, still in Switzerland and Chiavenna in Italy.

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Marchfeld

The Marchfeld (Morava Field) is the north area of the Vienna Basin which is a sedimentary basin between the Eastern Alps and the Western Carpathians.

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Maritime Alps

The Maritime Alps (Alpes Maritimes; Alpi Marittime) are a mountain range in the southwestern part of the Alps.

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Marmolada

Marmolada (Ladin: Marmolèda; German: Marmolata) is a mountain in northeastern Italy and the highest mountain of the Dolomites (a section of the Alps).

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Massif Central

The is a highland region in south-central France, consisting of mountains and plateaus. Geography of the Alps and Massif Central are Physiographic provinces.

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Matterhorn

The italics (Cervino; Cervin; Mont(e) Cervin(u))There are several different Romansh dialects, each with its own slight variation on the name for the Matterhorn.

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Mont Blanc

Mont Blanc (BrE:; AmE:; Mont Blanc; Monte Bianco, both meaning "white mountain") is the highest mountain in the Alps and Western Europe, and the highest mountain in Europe outside the Caucasus mountains, rising above sea level, located on the Franco-Italian border.

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Mont Cenis

Mont Cenis (Moncenisio) is a massif in Savoie (France) (with an elevation of at Pointe de Ronce and a pass at an elevation of), which forms the limit between the Cottian and Graian Alps.

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Mont Ventoux

Mont Ventoux (Provençal) is a mountain in the Provence region of southern France, located some northeast of Carpentras, Vaucluse.

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Monte Forcola

Monte Forcola (2,906 m) is a peak in Graubünden, Switzerland, close to the Italian border.

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Monte Rosa

Monte Rosa (Mont Roeusa; Mont Rose; de Gletscher or de Gorner; Monte Rosa) is a mountain massif in the eastern part of the Pennine Alps, on the border between Italy (Piedmont and Aosta Valley) and Switzerland (Valais).

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Monte Viso

Monte Viso or Monviso (Vísol; Piedmontese: Brich Monviso or Viso) is the highest mountain of the Cottian Alps.

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Mur (river)

The Mur or Mura (Prekmurje Slovene: MüraNovak, Vilko. 2006. Slovar stare knjižne prekmurščine. Ljubljana: ZRC SAZU, pp. 262, 269. or Möra) is a river in Central Europe rising in the Hohe Tauern national park of the Central Eastern Alps in Austria with its source at above sea level.

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Northern Limestone Alps

The Northern Limestone Alps (Nördliche Kalkalpen), also called the Northern Calcareous Alps, are the ranges of the Eastern Alps north of the Central Eastern Alps located in Austria and the adjacent Bavarian lands of southeastern Germany.

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Oberalp Pass

Oberalp Pass (Alpsu or Cuolm d'Ursera; Oberalppass) (2044 meters above sea level) is a high mountain pass in the Swiss Alps connecting the cantons of Graubünden and Uri between Disentis/Mustér and Andermatt.

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Oglio

The Oglio (Ollius or Olius; Òi, Ùi) is a left-side tributary of the river Po in Lombardy, Italy.

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Orogeny

Orogeny is a mountain-building process that takes place at a convergent plate margin when plate motion compresses the margin.

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Ortler

Ortler (Ortles) is, at above sea level, the highest mountain in the Eastern Alps outside the Bernina Range.

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Pannonian Basin

The Pannonian Basin, or Carpathian Basin, is a large sedimentary basin situated in southeast Central Europe.

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Pennine Alps

The Pennine Alps (Alpes Pennines, Walliser Alpen, Alpi Pennine, Alpes Poeninae), sometimes referred to as the Valais Alps (which are just the Northern Swiss part of the Pennine Alps), are a mountain range in the western part of the Alps.

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Penninic

The Penninic nappes or the Penninicum, commonly abbreviated as Penninic, are one of three nappe stacks and geological zones in which the Alps can be divided.

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Periadriatic Seam

The Periadriatic Seam (or fault) is a distinct geologic fault in Southern Europe, running S-shaped about from the Tyrrhenian Sea through the whole Southern Alps as far as Hungary.

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Piave (river)

The Piave (Plavis, German: Ploden) is a river in northern Italy.

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Piz Bernina

Piz Bernina (Romansh, Pizzo Bernina) is the highest mountain in the Eastern Alps, the highest point of the Bernina Range, and the highest peak in the Rhaetian Alps.

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Piz Sesvenna

Piz Sesvenna is the highest mountain in the Sesvenna Range of the Alps.

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Po (river)

The Po is the longest river in Italy.

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Pohorje

Pohorje, also known as the Pohorje Massif or the Pohorje Mountains (Bachergebirge, Bacherngebirge or often simply Bachern), is a mostly wooded, medium-high mountain range south of the Drava River in northeastern Slovenia.

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Radstadt Tauern

The Radstadt Tauern (Radstädter Tauern) are a subrange of the Central Eastern Alps in Austria.

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Reschen Pass

Reschen Pass (Reschenpass,; Passo di Resia) is a mountain pass across the main chain of the Alps, connecting the Upper Inn Valley in the northwest with the Vinschgau region in the southeast.

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Reuss (river)

The Reuss (Swiss German: Rüüss) is a river in Switzerland.

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Rhône

The Rhône is a major river in France and Switzerland, rising in the Alps and flowing west and south through Lake Geneva and Southeastern France before discharging into the Mediterranean Sea.

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Rheinwaldhorn

The Rheinwaldhorn (Adula) is the highest point in the Swiss canton of Ticino at 3,402 metres above sea level.

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Rhine

--> The Rhine is one of the major European rivers.

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Salzkammergut

The Salzkammergut (Central Austro-Bavarian) is a resort area in Austria, stretching from the city of Salzburg eastwards along the Alpine Foreland and the Northern Limestone Alps to the peaks of the Dachstein Mountains.

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Sargans

Sargans is a municipality in the Wahlkreis (constituency) of Sarganserland in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.

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Sava

The Sava is a river in Central and Southeast Europe, a right-bank and the longest tributary of the Danube.

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Savona

Savona (Sann-a) is a seaport and comune in the west part of the northern Italian region of Liguria, capital of the Province of Savona, in the Riviera di Ponente on the Mediterranean Sea.

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Schöpfl

Schöpfl is the highest hill (893 m) in the Wienerwald mountain range (Vienna woods), the north-easternmost part of the Alps.

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Schist

Schist is a medium-grained metamorphic rock showing pronounced schistosity.

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Schober Pass

Schober Pass (el. 849 m.) is a high mountain pass in the Austrian Alps, located in the Bundesland of Styria.

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Simplon Pass

The Simplon Pass (Col du Simplon; Simplonpass; Passo del Sempione; Pass del Sempion;; Pass dal Simplon) is a high mountain pass between the Pennine Alps and the Lepontine Alps in Switzerland.

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Slovenia

Slovenia (Slovenija), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene), is a country in southern Central Europe.

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Southern Alps (Europe)

The Southern Alps are a geological subdivision of Alps that are found south of the Periadriatic Seam, a major geological faultzone across the Alps.

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Southern Limestone Alps

The Southern Limestone Alps (Alpi Sud-orientali, Südliche Kalkalpen), also called the Southern Calcareous Alps, are the ranges of the Eastern Alps south of the Central Eastern Alps mainly located in northern Italy and the adjacent lands of Austria and Slovenia. Geography of the Alps and Southern Limestone Alps are Physiographic sections.

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Splügen Pass

The Splügen Pass (Splügenpass; Passo dello Spluga; Pass dal Spleia) is an Alpine mountain pass of the Lepontine Alps.

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Steppe

In physical geography, a steppe is an ecoregion characterized by grassland plains without closed forests except near rivers and lakes.

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Stubai Alps

The Stubai Alps (in German Stubaier Alpen) is a mountain range in the Central Eastern Alps of Europe.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe.

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Tödi

The Tödi, is a mountain massif and with the mountain peak Piz Russein the highest mountain in the Glarus Alps and the highest summit in the canton of Glarus, Switzerland.

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Tectonics

Tectonics are the processes that result in the structure and properties of the Earth's crust and its evolution through time.

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The Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, Australia, and owned by Nine.

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Ticino (river)

The river Ticino (Tesin; French and Tessin; Ticīnus) is the most important perennial left-bank tributary of the Po.

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Timmelsjoch

Timmelsjoch (Passo del Rombo), (elevation) is a high mountain pass that creates a link through the Ötztal Alps along the border between Austria and Italy.

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Triglav

Triglav (Terglau; Tricorno), with an elevation of, is the highest mountain in Slovenia and the highest peak of the Julian Alps.

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Triple divide

A triple divide or triple watershed is a point on Earth's surface where three drainage basins meet.

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Uri Alps

The Uri Alps (also known as Urner Alps, Urner Alpen) are a mountain range in Central Switzerland and part of the Western Alps.

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Val Müstair

Val Müstair (Münstertal) is a municipality in the Engiadina Bassa/Val Müstair Region in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.

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Var (river)

The Var (Varo; Varus) is a river located in the southeast of France.

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Vienna

Vienna (Wien; Austro-Bavarian) is the capital, most populous city, and one of nine federal states of Austria.

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Vienna Basin

The Vienna Basin (Wiener Becken, Vídeňská pánev, Viedenská kotlina, Hungarian: Bécsi-medence) is a geologically young tectonic burial basin and sedimentary basin in the seam area between the Alps, the Carpathians and the Pannonian Plain.

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Vienna Woods

The Vienna Woods (Wienerwald) are forested highlands that form the northeastern foothills of the Northern Limestone Alps in the states of Lower Austria and Vienna.

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Volcanism

Volcanism, vulcanism, volcanicity, or volcanic activity is the phenomenon where solids, liquids, gases, and their mixtures erupt to the surface of a solid-surface astronomical body such as a planet or a moon.

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Wachau

The Wachau is an Austrian valley with a picturesque landscape formed by the Danube river.

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Weißkugel

Weißkugel or Weißkogel is the second highest mountain in the Ötztal Alps and the third highest mountain in Austria.

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Western Alps

The Western Alps are the western part of the Alpine Range including the southeastern part of France (e.g. Savoie), the whole of Monaco, the northwestern part of Italy (i.e. Piedmont and the Aosta Valley) and the southwestern part of Switzerland (e.g. Valais).

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Witenwasserenstock

The Witenwasserenstock (3,082 m) is a peak between the Swiss cantons of Valais and Uri, located in the Lepontine Alps.

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Zuckerhütl

The Zuckerhütl is a mountain in Tyrol, Austria.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_the_Alps

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