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The Alps (French: Alpes, German: Alpen, Italian: Alpi) is among the largest and longest mountain ranges in Europe, spanning 8 international locations (from west to east), respectively: France, Switzerland, Italy, Monaco, Liechtenstein, Austria, Germany, and Slovenia. The Alps fashioned greater than 10 million years in the past when the African and Eurasian plaques have been attracted to one another. The affect causes layers of marine sedimentary rock to raise up by fracture and corrugation actions that kind excessive mountains akin to Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn. Mont Blanc stretches alongside the French-Italian boundary, with an altitude of 4,810 m (15,781 ft), so it’s the highest mountain within the Alps. 128 mountains of the Alps are greater than 4 thousand meters excessive, of which there are 82 unbiased mountains, 46 peaks, some mountains kind of frozen. The Alps are divided into a number of mountain teams
Your entire Alps area covers an space of about 200,000 km2. It extends about 750 km from west to east and about 400 km from south to north and is bordered by the Rhone Valley (Vallée du Rhône), Central Switzerland (Swiss Mittelland), upstream of the Danube River, Small Hungarian Plain, Valley Po valley and Gulf of Genova within the Ligure Sea. The Alps embrace the areas of eight international locations and kind the habitat of 13 million folks and are seen as a resort and nature area of Europe.
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