The Southern Carpathians are a group of mountain ranges located in southern Romania. They cover the part of the Carpathian Mountains located between the Prahova River in the east and the Timiș and Cerna Rivers in the west. To the south they are bounded by the Balkan mountain range in eastern Serbia.
Negoiu Peak 2,535 metres (8,317 ft)
Moldoveanu peak (2544 m) is the highest in Romania and one of the highest peaks of the Carpathians
Lake Bucura in the Retezat Mountains
Bucegi as seen from Postavaru massif
The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians are a range of mountains forming an arc across Central Europe. Roughly 1,500 km (930 mi) long, it is the third-longest European mountain range after the Urals at 2,500 km (1,600 mi) and the Scandinavian Mountains at 1,700 km (1,100 mi). The range stretches from the far eastern Czech Republic (3%) and Austria (1%) in the northwest through Slovakia (21%), Poland (10%), Ukraine (10%), Romania (50%) to Serbia (5%) in the south. The highest range within the Carpathians is known as the Tatra mountains in Poland and Slovakia, where the highest peaks exceed 2,600 m (8,500 ft). The second-highest range is the Southern Carpathians in Romania, where the highest peaks range between 2,500 m (8,200 ft) and 2,550 m (8,370 ft).
Tatra Mountains - Eye of the Sea, Mięguszowiecki Summits, Cubryna, Mnich
The Eastern Carpathians as Alpes Bastarnice on Tabula Peutingeriana
Maramureș. Mountains in the north of Romania
Mukachevo, Western Ukraine