This article gives an overview of the geomorphological division of

Slovakia Slovakia (; sk, Slovensko ), officially the Slovak Republic ( sk, Slovenská republika, links=no ), 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 s ...

. It is ordered in a hierarchical form, belonging to the

Alps-Himalaya System The Alpide belt or Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt,K.M. Storetvedt, K. M., ''The Tethys Sea and the Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt; mega-elements in a new global tectonic system,'' Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, Volume 62, Issues 1 ...

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. Roughly long, it is the third-longest European mountain range after the Urals at and the Scandinavian Mountains at . The range stretches ...

and of the

Pannonian Basin The Pannonian Basin, or Carpathian Basin, is a large Sedimentary basin, basin situated in south-east Central Europe. The Geomorphology, geomorphological term Pannonian Plain is more widely used for roughly the same region though with a somewh ...

. 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. Roughly long, it is the third-longest European mountain range after the Urals at and the Scandinavian Mountains at . The range stretches ...
(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 wi ...
(''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 ...
(''Vnútorné Západné Karpaty'') (sub-province)

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Slovak Ore Mountains The Slovak Ore Mountains ( sk, Slovenské rudohorie , hu, Gömör–Szepesi-érchegység, german: Slowakisches Erzgebirge or Zips-Gemer-Erzgebirge) are an extensive mountain range within the Carpathian Mountains, located mostly in Slovakia's S ...
(''Slovenské rudohorie'') (area)

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Vepor Mountains Vepor Mountains ( sk, Veporské vrchy) are a mountain range in Slovakia Slovakia (; sk, Slovensko ), officially the Slovak Republic ( sk, Slovenská republika, links=no ), is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland ...

(''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 na ...

(''Spišsko-gemerský kras'') * Stolica Mountains (''Stolické vrchy'') * Revúca Highlands (''Revúcka vrchovina'') *

Volovec Mountains The Volovec Mountains ( sk, Volovské vrchy, ) is a mountain range in eastern Slovakia, the largest range within the group of Slovak Ore Mountains, which is part of the Inner Western Carpathians. The range is about 70 kilometers by 30 kilomet ...

(''Volovské vrchy'') *

Black Mountain, Slovakia Black Mountain ( sk, Čierna hora , german: Schwarzer Berg) is a small mountain range in eastern Slovakia. It forms part of the Slovak Ore Mountains. The range is located roughly between the city of Košice to the southeast and the municipalities ...

(''Čierna hora'') *

Rožňava Basin Rožňava ( hu, Rozsnyó, german: Rosenau, Latin: ''Rosnavia'') is a town in Slovakia, approximately by road from Košice in the Košice Region, and has a population of 19,182. The town is an economic and tourist centre of the Gemer. Rožňava ...

(''Rožňavská kotlina'') *

Slovak Karst The Slovak Karst ( sk, Slovenský kras) is one of the mountain ranges of the Slovenské Rudohorie Mountains in the 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 ...

(Hungarian: ''Aggteleki-karszt''; lies in northern

Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the 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 a ...

)

= Fatransko-tatranská oblasť (Fatra-Tatra Area)

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Little Carpathians The Little Carpathians (also: ''Lesser Carpathians'', sk, Malé Karpaty; german: Kleine Karpaten; hu, Kis-Kárpátok) are a low, about 100 km long, mountain range, part of the Carpathian Mountains. The mountains are situated in Western Slov ...

(''Malé Karpaty'') *

Považský Inovec Považský Inovec is a mountain range in western Slovakia, named after the Váh river. It is 48 km (30 mi) long and 15–25 km (9-16 mi) wide mountain range. It is situated from the city of Hlohovec, raising from the Danubia ...

Tribeč Tribeč ( hu, Tribecs-hegység) is a crystalline mountain range in western Slovakia, in the Inner Western Carpathians within the Fatra-Tatra Area, roughly between the towns of Nitra Nitra (; also known by other alternative names) is a city in ...

* Strážov Mountains (''Strážovské vrchy'') * Žiar *

Malá Fatra Malá Fatra (; also Little Fatra or Lesser Fatra, pl, Mała Fatra, hu, Kis-Fátra) 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 S ...

(Lesser Fatra) *

Veľká Fatra Veľká Fatra (; also Great Fatra or Greater Fatra; hu, Nagy-Fátra) is a mountain range in the Western Carpathians in Slovakia. The Veľká Fatra lie to the southeast of the better known Malá (Lesser) Fatra mountains and are less developed, as ...

(Greater Fatra) * Starohorské vrchy * Chočské vrchy *

Tatra Mountains The Tatra Mountains (), Tatras, or Tatra (''Tatry'' either in Slovak language, Slovak () or in Polish language, Polish () - ''plurale tantum''), are a series of mountains within the Western Carpathians that form a natural border between Slovak ...

(''Tatry'') *

Low Tatras The Low Tatras or Low Tatra ( sk, Nízke Tatry; hu, Alacsony-Tátra) 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 ...

(''Nízke Tatry'') *

Kozie chrbty The Kozie chrbty or Kecske-hát (In 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 Vikartovsk ...

* Branisko * Žilinská kotlina (Žilina Basin) * Hornonitrianska kotlina (Upper Nitra Basin) *

Turčianska kotlina

The Turiec Basin ( sk, Turčianska kotlina; ...

(Turiec Basin) *

Podtatranská kotlina The Podtatranská kotlina (literally Sub-Tatra Basin or Basin under Tatra(s)) is a basin in northern Slovakia, part of the Fatra-Tatra Area, which belongs to the Inner Western Carpathians. Towns and cities include Ružomberok, Liptovský Mikulá ...

* Hornádska kotlina (Hornád Basin) * Horehronské podolie

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Slovenské stredohorie The Slovak Central Mountains
(Slovak Medium Mountains) (area)

= * Vtáčnik *

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 (Kremnica Mountains) *

Poľana Poľana is a small mountain range in central Slovakia. It lies in the north-eastern part of the Slovak Central Mountains. The highest hill is Poľana - an inactive stratovolcano - at 1,458 m (4,873 ft) ASL. The mountain range is bordered by Slov ...

* 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 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 Západné Karpaty'') (sub-province)

=
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 as ''Magyar-morva határhegység ...
(''Slovensko-moravské Karpaty'') (area)

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White Carpathians The White Carpathians ( cs, Bílé Karpaty; sk, Biele Karpaty; german: Weiße Karpaten; hu, Fehér-Kárpátok) are a mountain range on the border of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, part of the Carpathians. They are part of the Slovak-Moravian ...

(''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 Veľký ...

* 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 The Kysucké Beskydy is a set of mountain ranges in the Kysuce region of northern Slovakia. Slovaks consider the mountains to belong to the Central Beskids, of the Outer Western Carpathians, while Poles classify them as part of the Western B ...

Oravské Beskydy Oravské Beskydy ( hu, Árvai-Beszkidek) is a range of mountains straddling the northern-Slovakia-southern-Poland border, considered part of the Central Beskids, within the Outer Western Carpathians. The highest mountain of the range is Babia G ...

* Kysucká vrchovina * Podbeskydská brázda * Podbeskydská vrchovina * Oravská Magura *

Oravská vrchovina The Orava Highlands (in Slovak, ''Oravská vrchovina'') is a range of small mountains in the Žilina Region The Žilina Region ( sk, Žilinský kraj; pl, Kraj żyliński; hu, Zsolnai kerület) is one of the eight Slovak administrative regio ...

(Orava Highlands)

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

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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 te ...

= Podhôľno-magurská oblasť (Podhale-Magura Area)

= * Skorušinské vrchy * Podtatranská brázda * Spišská Magura * Levočské vrchy (Levoča Hills) * 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 Sy ...
(''Vnútorné Východné Karpaty'') (sub-province)

= Vihorlatsko-gutínska oblasť (Vihorlat-Gutín Area)

= *

Vihorlat Mountains Vihorlat Mountains ( sk, Vihorlatské vrchy; ua, Вигорлат, ''Vyhorliat'') 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. Etymolog ...

(''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 S ...
(''Vonkajšie Východné Karpaty'') (sub-province)

= Poloniny Mountains (area)

= * Bukovské vrchy (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 Polis ...

(Laborec Highlands) * Beskydské predhorie (Beskidian Piedmont)

Pannonian Basin The Pannonian Basin, or Carpathian Basin, is a large Sedimentary basin, basin situated in south-east Central Europe. The Geomorphology, geomorphological term Pannonian Plain is more widely used for roughly the same region though with a somewh ...
(''Panónska panva'') (sub-system)

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

Vienna Basin The Vienna Basin (german: Wiener Becken, cz, Vídeňská pánev, sk, 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 t ...
(''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 The Danubian Hills (Slovak: ''Podunajská pahorkatina''), also translated as Danubian Upland, is the north-eastern part of the Danubian Lowland in Slovakia often appearing as low rolling hills of prevalently eolic origin. It lies between the D ...

(Danubian Hills) * Podunajská rovina (Danubian Flat)

Východopanónska panva (Eastern Pannonian Basin) (province)

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

= Východoslovenská nížina (Eastern Slovak Lowland) (area)

= *

Východoslovenská pahorkatina The East(ern) Slovak Hills (Slovak: ''Východoslovenská pahorkatina''), also translated as Eastern Slovak Upland, is the higher, mountain-like part of the Eastern Slovak Lowland. It is a strip of hilly land surrounding the Eastern Slovak Flat a ...

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

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