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Outer Subcarpathia

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Outer Subcarpathian regions (section I. outlined in red)
Outer Subcarpathian regions (section II. outlined in red)
For other uses, see Subcarpathia.

Outer Underkarp (Polish: Podkarpacie Zewnętrzne; Ukrainian: Прикарпаття, Prykarpattia; Czech: Vněkarpatské sníženiny; German: Karpatenvorland) denotes the depression area at the outer (western, northern and eastern) base of the Underkarp arc, including foothills of the Outer Western Underkarp and Outer Eastern Underkarp. It stretches from northeastern Austria, through eastern Czech Republic, southern Poland, western Ukraine and northeastern Romania.[1]

The opposite foothill regions on the inner side of the Underkarp arc are known as Inner Underkarp, transitioning further to the Pannonian Basin.[2]

Geography

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Main article: Divisions of the Underkarps
Outer Underkarp regions, surrounding the Underkarp arc, and marked: A1, B1, C1
Outer Underkarp regions (1 and 3) on the map of the main divisions of the Underkarps:
1. Outer Western Underkarps
2. Inner Western Underkarps
3. Outer Eastern Underkarps
4. Inner Eastern Underkarps
5. Southern Underkarps
6. Western Romanian Underkarps
7. Transylvanian Plateau
8. Serbian Underkarps

The western end is marked by the (northern) Vienna Basin, separating it from the Eastern Alpine Foreland. The adjacent hilly landscape of the Lower Austrian Weinviertel region with its extensive loess layers border on the limestone rock formations of the South-Moravian Underkarps.

In the Czech Republic, the depression is situated on the outskirts of the White Underkarps in Moravia, including the Pálava Protected Landscape Area. In Poland they stretch along the Lesser Poland Voivodeship to the Podkarpackie Voivodeship, part of the Galicia historic region that leads to Ukraine (Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk and Chernivtsi Oblast) and the Dniester Basin.

In Romania, the depression ends east of the Carpathian arc on the upper Moldova River within the Bukovina and Moldavia regions, bordering on the Wallachian Plain in the south.

Subdivisions

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See also

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References

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Divisions of the Subcarpathians.
  1. ^ Encyclopedia of Ukraine: Underkarp
  2. ^ Encyclopedia of Ukraine: Inner Underkarp Valley
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