The Sopron Mountains (, ), occasionally also called the Ödenburg Mountains, is a low mountain range which forms the eastward extension of the

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 Main chain of the Alps, Alpine divide, and down the Liro (Como), Liro River to Lake Como in the south. ...

in Europe. It is part of the

Alpokalja Alpokalja (English "feet of the Alps") is a mountainous region in western Hungary. Its highest point is Írott-kő at 882 metres above sea level. Although there are several lower mountains, the majority of the territory is hilly. Fir Firs are ...

area of

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 ...

and also of the

Burgenland Burgenland (; ; ; Bavarian language, Austro-Bavarian: ''Burgnland''; Slovene language, Slovene: ''Gradiščanska''; ) is the easternmost and least populous Bundesland (Austria), state of Austria. It consists of two statutory city (Austria), statut ...

. It is located close to the city of

Sopron Sopron (; , ) is a city in Hungary on the Austrian border, near Lake Neusiedl/Lake Fertő. History Ancient times-13th century In the Iron Age a hilltop settlement with a burial ground existed in the neighbourhood of Sopron-Várhely. When ...

in western Hungary. Its highest point is the Brenntenriegel, at 606 metres above sea level.Mezősi, Gábor.
The Physical Geography of Hungary
'. Germany, Springer International Publishing, 2016. 247.

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Mountain ranges of Hungary Mountain ranges of Burgenland Geography of Győr-Moson-Sopron County Sopron Mattersburg District Oberpullendorf District Eisenstadt-Umgebung District {{Austria-geo-stub

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