The East(ern) Slovak Lowland ( Slovak: ''Východoslovenská nížina'') is the name of a part of the

Great Hungarian Plain The Great Hungarian Plain (also known as Alföld or Great Alföld, or ) is a plain occupying the majority of the modern territory of Hungary. It is the largest part of the wider Pannonian Plain (however, the Great Hungarian Plain was not par ...

(Slovak: ''Veľká dunajská kotlina'') situated in

Slovakia Slovakia, officially the Slovak Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the west, and the Czech Republic to the northwest. Slovakia's m ...

. In terms of

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, it forms one unit together with the Tisza Lowland (''Tiszamenti síkság'') in

Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ...

, the Transcarpathian Lowland (''Zakarpats'ka nyzovyna'') in

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, and the plain ''Câmpia Someşului'' in

Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...

. It consists of the following two parts: * Eastern Slovak Hills (also translated as Eastern Slovak Upland) in the west and the north; and * Eastern Slovak Flat (also translated as Eastern Slovak Plain) in the middle, east and south.

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