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Eastern section of the Western Beskids
View of the nearby Pieniny from the summit of Three Crowns
Highest point
Peak	Radziejowa
Elevation	1,266 m (4,154 ft)
Coordinates	49°26′56″N 20°36′15″E / 49.44889°N 20.60417°E / 49.44889; 20.60417
Naming
Native name	Východné Beskydy (Slovak)
Geography
Eastern section of the Western Beskids (marked in red)
Countries	Slovakia and Poland
Regions	Prešov and Lesser Poland
Parent range	Outer Western Carpathians
Borders on	Podhale-Magura Area, (Polish) Western Beskids and Low Beskids

Eastern section of the Western Beskids (Czech: Východní část Západních Beskyd) are a set of mountain ranges spanning the southern Polish and northern Slovak border. They constitute an eastern section of the Western Beskids, within the Outer Western Carpathians.

In geographic classification, the term Beskid Mountains has several definitions, related to distinctive historical and linguistic traditions. Depending on a particular classification, designation Eastern in relation to the Beskids is also used with different meanings. In Slovak terminology, the term Eastern Beskids (Slovak: Východné Beskydy) is used to designate the eastern section of the Western Beskids. In Polish terminology, the same region is also classified as the eastern section of the Western Beskids, but not under the term Eastern Beskids (Polish: Beskidy Wschodnie), since that term is used to designate Eastern Beskids of the Outer Eastern Carpathians.

Subdivisions

The Eastern section of the Western Beskids consist of:

• Beskid Sądecki (Polish: Beskid Sądecki) + Ľubovňa Highlands (Slovak: Ľubovnianska vrchovina)
• Čergov (Polish: Góry Czerchowskie; Slovak: Čergov)
• Pieniny (Polish: Pieniny; Slovak: Pieniny)

See also

• Divisions of the Carpathians
• Outer Western Carpathians
• Western Beskids
• Central section of the Western Beskids

References

1. Földvary 1988, p. 105-117.

Sources

• Földvary, Gábor Z. (1988). Geology of the Carpathian Region. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Company. ISBN 9789813103825.
• Kondracki, Jerzy (1977). Regiony fizycznogeograficzne Polski. Warszawa: Wydawa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego.
• Kondracki, Jerzy (1989). Problemy standaryzacji nazw geograficznych. Warszawa: Instytut Geografii i Przestrzennego Zagospodarowania PWN.
• Kondracki, Jerzy (2000) . Geografia regionalna Polski (2. ed.). Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN. ISBN 9788301130503.

v t e Divisions, Groups, and Ranges of the Carpathian Mountains
Western Carpathians	Inner Western Slovak Ore Mountains Fatra-Tatra Area Slovak Central Mountains Lučenec-Košice Depression Mátra-Slanec Area and North Hungarian Mountains Outer Western South-Moravian Carpathians Central Moravian Carpathians Slovak-Moravian Carpathians Western Beskidian Piedmont Western Beskids (Eastern section, Central section) Podhale-Magura Area
Eastern Carpathians	Inner Eastern Vihorlat-Gutin Area Bistrița Mountains Căliman-Harghita Mountains Giurgeu-Brașov Depression Outer Eastern Central Beskidian Piedmont Central Beskids Eastern Beskids (Polonynian Beskids) Moldavian-Muntenian Carpathians
Southern Carpathians	Bucegi Mountains Făgăraș Mountains group Parâng Mountains group Retezat-Godeanu Mountains group
Western Romanian Carpathians	Apuseni Mountains Poiana Ruscă Mountains Banat Mountains
Serbian Carpathians	Homolje Mountains Kučaj Mountains Devica Rtanj Deli Jovan
Adjacent regions	Transylvanian Plateau (Transylvanian Plain) Outer Subcarpathian depressions
Grouping by country	Hungarian Carpathians Polish Carpathians Romanian Carpathians Serbian Carpathians Slovak Carpathians Ukrainian Carpathians

• Mountain ranges of Slovakia
• Mountain ranges of Poland
• Mountain ranges of the Western Carpathians