Mountain Ranges
Some of Europe's major mountain ranges are:
- Ural Mountains, used to separate Europe and Asia
- Caucasus Mountains, which also separate Europe and Asia, and is the namesake of the Caucasian race
- Carpathian Mountains, a major mountain range in Central and Southern Europe
- Alps, the famous mountains known for their spectacular slopes
- Apennines, which run through Italy
- Pyrenees, the natural border between France and Spain
- Cantabrian Mountains, which run across northern Spain
- Scandinavian Mountains, a mountain range which runs through the Scandinavian Peninsula, includes the Kjølen mountains
- Dinaric Alps, a mountain range in the Balkans
- Balkan mountains, a mountain range in central Balkans
- Scottish highlands ( cairngorms, a 'low level' mountain range, in northern and central Scotland.
Land area in different classes of European mountainous terrain (classification from UNEP-WCMC):
| >= 4500m | 3500- 4500m | 2500- 3500m | 1500- 2500m & slope>=2° | 1000- 1500m & slope >=5° or local elevation range >300m |
300-1000m & local elevation range >300m | Mountainous TOTAL | Europe TOTAL |
| 1 km2 | 225 km2 | 497886 km2 | 145838 km2 | 345255 km2 | 1222104 km2 | 2211308 km2 | 10180000 km2 |
| 0.00% | 0.00% | 4.89% | 1.43% | 3.39% | 12.00% | 21.72% | 100.00% |
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