Eastern Alps
The Eastern Alps are usually defined as the area east of a line from Lake Constance and the Alpine Rhine valley, up to the Splügen Pass at the Alpine divide, and down the Liro River to Lake Como in the south.
- Type: Mountain range
- Description: eastern parts of the Alps in Central Europe
- Also known as: “Alpes centrales del este”, “Alpes del noreste”, “Alpes del sudeste”, “Alpes Orientales”, “Alpii de est”, “Alpii Orientali”, “Alps Orie”, “Aust-Alpane”, “East Alps”, “Itäiset Alpit”, “Östra alperna”, and “Rytų Alpės”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Mining Museum Steinhaus and Durreck.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include St. Johann im Ahrntal and Steinhaus.
Eastern Alps
- Categories: alpine main part and landform
- Location: Ahrntal, South Tyrol, Trentino-Alto Adige, Northeast Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
47° north
Longitude
12° east
Open location code
8FVJ2222+22
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=mountain_range
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Venetian—“Eastern Alps” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جبال الألب الشرقية”
- Armenian: “Արևելյան Ալպեր”
- Belarusian: “Усходнія Альпы”
- Bulgarian: “Източни Алпи”
- Catalan: “Alps orientals”
- Chinese: “東阿爾卑斯山脈”
- Czech: “Východní Alpy”
- Danish: “Østalperne”
- Dutch: “Eastern Alps”
- Esperanto: “Orientaj Alpoj”
- Estonian: “Ida-Alpid”
- Finnish: “Itä-Alpit”
- French: “Alpes orientales”
- Friulian: “Alps Orientâls”
- Georgian: “აღმოსავლეთი ალპები”
- German: “Ostalpen”
- Greek: “Ανατολικές Άλπεις”
- Hebrew: “הרי האלפים הטירוליים”
- Hungarian: “Keleti-Alpok”
- Indonesian: “Alpen Timur”
- Italian: “Alpi Orientali”
- Japanese: “東アルプス山脈”
- Korean: “동알프스산맥”
- Ladin: “Elpes Urienteles”
- Lithuanian: “Rytinės Alpės”
- Luxembourgish: “Ostalpen”
- Macedonian: “Источни Алпи”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Øst-Alpene”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dei austlege Alpane”
- Norwegian: “Øst-Alpene”
- Persian: “آلپ شرقی”
- Polish: “Alpy Wschodnie”
- Portuguese: “Alpes Orientais”
- Romanian: “Alpii Răsăriteni”
- Russian: “Восточные Альпы”
- Serbian: “Источни Алпи”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Istočne Alpe”
- Slovak: “Východné Alpy”
- Slovenian: “Vzhodne Alpe”
- Spanish: “Alpes orientales”
- Swedish: “Östalperna”
- Turkish: “Doğu Alpler”
- Turkish: “Doğu Alpleri”
- Ukrainian: “Східні Альпи”
- Venetian: “Alpe orientałi”
- Venetian: “Alpi Orientałi”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Am Wollbach and St. Jakob.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Carabinieri and Jugend- und Kulturzentrum.
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Worth a closer look: Bolzano and Brixen.
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