Ukraine. Carpathian mountains. Near the village of Volovets Zakarpattia region. The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians are a mountain range system forming an arc roughly 1,500 km 932 mi long across Central Europe, into Eastern, and in Southeastern Europe, making them the second-longest mountain range in Europe . The Carpathians consist of a chain of mountain ranges that stretch in an arc from the Czech Republic (3%) in the northwest through Slovakia (17%), Poland (10%), Hungary (4%) and Ukraine (11%) to Romania (53%) in the east and on to the Iron Gates of the Danube River between Romania and Serbia (2%) in the south.
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