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This article gives an overview of the geomorphological division of
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 ...
. It is ordered in a hierarchical form, belonging to the Alps-Himalaya System and to the sub-systems of the
Carpathian Mountains The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians () are a range of mountains forming an arc across Central Europe and Southeast Europe. Roughly long, it is the third-longest European mountain range after the Ural Mountains, Urals at and the Scandinav ...
and of the
Pannonian Basin The Pannonian Basin, with the term Carpathian Basin being sometimes preferred in Hungarian literature, is a large sedimentary basin situated in southeastern Central Europe. After the Treaty of Trianon following World War I, the geomorpholog ...
. These subsystems are subsequently divided into provinces, sub-provinces and areas. Terminology (first Slovak, second English translation(s); see also

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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. Roughly long, it is the third-longest European mountain range after the Ural Mountains, Urals at and the Scandinav ...
(Slovak: ''Karpaty'') (sub-system)


Western Carpathians The Western Carpathians () are a mountain range and geomorphological province that forms the western part of the Carpathian Mountains. The mountain belt stretches from the Low Beskids range of the Eastern Carpathians along the border of Poland w ...
(''Západné Karpaty'') (province)


Inner Western Carpathians Divisions of the Carpathians are a categorization of the Carpathian mountains system. Below is a detailed overview of the major subdivisions and ranges of the Carpathian Mountains. The Carpathians are a "subsystem" of a bigger Alps-Himalaya S ...
(''Vnútorné Západné Karpaty'') (sub-province)


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Slovak Ore Mountains The Slovak Ore Mountains ( , , ) are an extensive mountain range within the Carpathian Mountains, located mostly in Slovakia's Spiš and Gemer region, with a small part in northern Hungary. It is the largest mountain range in Slovakia. Geomorph ...
(''Slovenské rudohorie'') (area)

= * Vepor Mountains (''Veporské vrchy'') *
Spiš-Gemer Karst The Spiš-Gemer Karst (Slovak: ''Spišsko-gemerský kras'', Hungarian: ''Szepes-gömöri karszt'') is a part (a geomorphological area) in the Slovenské rudohorie Mountains. It consists of these two entities, both of which have been declared n ...
(''Spišsko-gemerský kras'') * Stolica Mountains (''Stolické vrchy'') *
Revúca Highlands Revúca (; formerly ''Veľká Revúca'' in Slovak language, Slovak; ; ) is a town in Banská Bystrica Region, Slovakia. Revúca is the seat of Revúca District. Etymology The name is of Slovak language, Slovak origin and was initially the name o ...
(''Revúcka vrchovina'') *
Volovec Mountains The Volovec Mountains (, ) is a mountain range ...
(''Volovské vrchy'') * Black Mountain, Slovakia (''Čierna hora'') * Rožňava Basin (''Rožňavská kotlina'') *
Slovak Karst The Slovak Karst () is one of the mountain ranges of the Slovenské Rudohorie mountains in the Carpathian Mountains, Carpathians in southern Slovakia. It consists of a complex of huge karst plains and plateaus. Since 1973 it has been a protected ...
(''Slovenský kras'') and
Aggtelek Karst Aggtelek Karst is a karst area in northern Hungary. The area is especially well known for its abundance of caves, which were recorded together with those in neighboring Slovakia in 1995 to the list of World Heritage Site under the name of the Ca ...
(Hungarian: ''Aggteleki-karszt''; lies in northern
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 ...
)


= Fatransko-tatranská oblasť (Fatra-Tatra Area)

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Little Carpathians The Little Carpathians (also: ''Lesser Carpathians'', ; ; ) are a low mountain range, about 100 km long, and part of the Carpathian Mountains. The mountains are situated in Western Slovakia, covering the area from Bratislava to Nové Mesto n ...
(''Malé Karpaty'') * Považský Inovec *
Tribeč Tribeč () is a crystalline mountain range in western Slovakia, in the Inner Western Carpathians located in the Nitra Region. It is surrounded by the Danubian Lowland, Pohronský Inovec, Vtáčnik Mountains and the Upper Nitra Basin. Beech trees ...
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Strážov Mountains The Strážov Mountains (, ) are a mountain range in northwestern Slovakia, being part of Inner Western Carpathians, and of the Fatra-Tatra Area. They are situated between the towns of Trenčín, Považská Bystrica, Rajec, Prievidza and Bánovce ...
(''Strážovské vrchy'') * Žiar *
Malá Fatra Malá Fatra (; also Little Fatra or Lesser Fatra, , ) is a mountain range in the Western Carpathians in the north-west of Central Slovakia. In the geomorphological system, it is a part of the Fatra-Tatra Area.Craig Stephen Cravens ''Culture And Cu ...
(Lesser Fatra) *
Veľká Fatra Veľká Fatra (; also Great Fatra or Greater Fatra; ) is a mountain range in the Western Carpathians in Slovakia. The Veľká Fatra lie to the southeast of the better known Malá Fatra, Malá (Lesser) Fatra mountains and are less developed, as we ...
(Greater Fatra) * Starohorské vrchy * Chočské vrchy * Tatra Mountains (''Tatry'') *
Low Tatras The Low Tatras or Low Tatra (; ) is a mountain range of the Inner Western Carpathians in central Slovakia. It is located south of the Tatras proper, from which it is separated by the valleys of the Váh and Poprad rivers (the Liptov-Spiš ...
(''Nízke Tatry'') *
Kozie chrbty The Kozie chrbty (In Slovak language, Slovak, literally "goat ridges") are a mountainous area in Slovakia, part of the Fatra-Tatra Area of the Inner Western Carpathians, where uranium ore may be found. The place was previously known as Vikartovs ...
* Branisko * Žilinská kotlina (Žilina Basin) * Hornonitrianska kotlina (Upper Nitra Basin) *
Turčianska kotlina The Turiec Basin (; ; ; ) is located in the northern part of central Slovakia, within the Fatra-Tatra Area of the Inner Western Carpathians. The basin is delimited by the mountain ranges of Veľká Fatra to the east, Malá Fatra to the west and ...
(Turiec Basin) * Podtatranská kotlina * Hornádska kotlina (Hornád Basin) * Horehronské podolie


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Slovenské stredohorie The Slovak Central MountainsVtáčnik *
Pohronský Inovec Pohronský Inovec is a mountain range in Slovakia, part of the Slovenské stredohorie ranges of the Inner Western Carpathians. The range is volcanic in origin, and composed of andesite and rhyolites. The highest peak is ''Veľký Inovec'' (B ...
* Štiavnické vrchy (Štiavnica Mountains) *
Kremnické vrchy The Kremnica Mountains (, , ) are a volcanic mountain range in central Slovakia. They are part of the Western Carpathians and the Slovenské stredohorie Mts. The mountain range is situated east of the town of Kremnica, which gave it its name. ...
(Kremnica Mountains) *
Poľana Poľana is a small mountain range in central Slovakia. It lies in the north-eastern part of the Slovak Central Mountains within the Western Carpathians Mountains. The highest hill is Poľana - an inactive stratovolcano A stratovolcano, a ...
* Ostrôžky * Javorie * Krupinská planina (Krupina Plain) * Zvolenská kotlina (Zvolen Basin) * Pliešovská kotlina * Žiarska kotlina (Žiar Basin)


= Lučensko-košická zníženina (Lučenec-Košice Depression) (area)

= * Bodvianska pahorkatina * Juhoslovenská kotlina (Southern Slovak Basin) * Košická kotlina (Košice Basin)


= Matransko-slanská oblasť (Matra-Slanec Area)

= * Burda * Cerová vrchovina * Slanské vrchy * Zemplínske vrchy


Outer Western Carpathians (''Vonkajšie Západné Karpaty'') (sub-province)


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Slovak-Moravian Carpathians The Slovak-Moravian Carpathians (CZ/SK: ''Slovensko-moravské Karpaty'') are the mountain ranges along the border of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Before the Treaty of Trianon in 1920, it was known in Hungarian language, Hungarian as ''Magyar-m ...
(''Slovensko-moravské Karpaty'') (area)

= *
White Carpathians The White Carpathians (; ; ) are a mountain range on the border of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, part of the Carpathians. They are part of the macroregion of Slovak-Moravian Carpathians, stretching from the Váh river and the Little Carpat ...
(''Biele Karpaty'') *
Javorníky The Maple Mountains, Javornik Mountains, or Javorniks (Czech and Slovak: ''Javorníky'') are a mountain range of the Slovak-Moravian Carpathians that forms part of the border between the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Its highest point is Veľk ...
* Myjavská pahorkatina (Myjava Hills) * Považské podolie


= Západné Beskydy (Western Beskids) (area)

= * Moravsko-sliezske Beskydy (Moravian-Silesian Beskids) * Turzovská vrchovina * Jablunkovské medzihorie


= Stredné Beskydy (Central Beskids) (area)

= * Kysucké Beskydy * Oravské Beskydy * Kysucká vrchovina * Podbeskydská brázda * Podbeskydská vrchovina * Oravská Magura * Oravská vrchovina (Orava Highlands)


= Východné Beskydy ("Eastern Beskids") (area)

= *
Pieniny The Pieniny (sometimes also the PieninsSzafer, Władysław. 2013. ''The Vegetation of Poland: International Series of Monographs in Pure and Applied Biology''. Warsaw: Pergamon Press, pp. 156, 388. or the Pienin Mountains,Griffiths, Graham C. D ...
* Ľubovnianska vrchovina *
Čergov Čergov is a mountain range in the central part of the Prešov Region of Slovakia. Geologically the range is part of the Outer Western Carpathians. The Polish name for the range is ''Góry Czerchowskie'', the Czerchów Mountains. In Polish lan ...


= Podhôľno-magurská oblasť (Podhale-Magura Area)

= * Skorušinské vrchy * Podtatranská brázda * Spišská Magura * Levočské vrchy * Bachureň * Spišsko-šarišské medzihorie * Šarišská vrchovina (Šariš Highlands) * Oravská kotlina (Orava Basin)


Eastern Carpathians Divisions of the Carpathians are a categorization of the Carpathian mountains system. Below is a detailed overview of the major subdivisions and ranges of the Carpathian Mountains. The Carpathians are a "subsystem" of a bigger Alps-Himalaya Sy ...
(''Východné Karpaty'') (province)


Inner Eastern Carpathians Divisions of the Carpathians are a categorization of the Carpathian mountains system. Below is a detailed overview of the major subdivisions and ranges of the Carpathian Mountains. The Carpathians are a "subsystem" of a bigger Alps-Himalaya S ...
(''Vnútorné Východné Karpaty'') (sub-province)


= Vihorlatsko-gutínska oblasť (Vihorlat-Gutín Area)

= *
Vihorlat Mountains Vihorlat Mountains (; , ''Vyhorliat,'' Hungarian: Vihorlát) or colloquially Vihorlat is a volcanic mountain range in eastern Slovakia and western Ukraine. A part of the range is listed as a World Heritage Site. Etymology The name is of Sla ...
(''Vihorlatské vrchy'')


Outer Eastern Carpathians Divisions of the Carpathians are a categorization of the Carpathian mountains system. Below is a detailed overview of the major subdivisions and ranges of the Carpathian Mountains. The Carpathians are a "subsystem" of a bigger Alps-Himalaya Sy ...
(''Vonkajšie Východné Karpaty'') (sub-province)


= Poloniny Mountains (area)

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Bukovské vrchy The Bukovec Mountains (; ) is a flysch mountain range in north-eastern Slovakia, part of the Eastern Beskids of the Outer Eastern Carpathians. It is located in the Prešov Region near the borders with Poland (Bieszczady Mountains) and Ukraine, ...
(Bukovec Mountains)


= Nízke Beskydy (''Low Beskids'') (area)

= * Busov * Ondavská vrchovina (Ondava Highlands) *
Laborecká vrchovina The Laborec Highlands (in Slovak, ''Laborecká vrchovina'') is a mountain range in northeastern Slovakia, part of the Lower Beskids of the Outer Eastern Carpathians. The range is composed of Carpathian flysch. Bordered in the north by the Pol ...
(Laborec Highlands) * Beskydské predhorie (Beskidian Piedmont)


Pannonian Basin The Pannonian Basin, with the term Carpathian Basin being sometimes preferred in Hungarian literature, is a large sedimentary basin situated in southeastern Central Europe. After the Treaty of Trianon following World War I, the geomorpholog ...
(''Panónska panva'') (sub-system)


Západopanónska panva (''West Pannonian Basin'')(province)


Vienna Basin The Vienna Basin (, , , 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. Although it topographically separates the Al ...
(''Viedenská kotlina'') (sub-province)


= Záhorská nížina (Záhorie Lowland) (area)

= * Borská nížina * Chvojnická pahorkatina


= Juhomoravská panva (South Moravian Basin) (area)

= * Dolnomoravský úval


Malá dunajská kotlina (Little Hungarian Plain) (sub-province)


= Podunajská nížina (Danubian Lowland) (area)

= * Podunajská pahorkatina (Danubian Hills) *
Podunajská rovina The Danubian Flat (Slovak language, Slovak and Czech language, Czech: ''Podunajská rovina'', German language, German: ''Donauebene''), also translated as Danubian Plain, is the south-western, flatter, part of the Danubian Lowland in Slovakia. T ...
(Danubian Flat)


Východopanónska panva (Eastern Pannonian Basin) (province)


Veľká dunajská kotlina (Great Hungarian Plain) (sub-province)


= Východoslovenská nížina (Eastern Slovak Lowland) (area)

= * Východoslovenská pahorkatina (Eastern Slovak Hills) * Východoslovenská rovina (Eastern Slovak Flat)


Literature

*''Mazúr E., Lukniš M., Balatka B., Loučková J., Sládek J. (1986).'' Geomorfologické členenie SSR a ČSSR. Mapa mierky 1:500 000, Slovenská kartografia, SUGK, Bratislava. Geography of Slovakia Physiographic divisions