Sumava
Bohemian Forest is a national park in South Bohemia part of Czech Republic. The forest is a part of largest protected forest area of Central Europe and both the woods and the mountain range that forms its backbone stretch in Germany, Czech Republic and Austria.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Mountain with an elevation of 1,066 metres
- Description: low mountain range in Central Europe
- Also known as: “Bohemian Forest” and “Šumava”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Nádrž U Tokaniště and Chalupské jezírko.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Borová Lada and Knížecí Pláně.
Borová Lada
Village
Photo: Packa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Borová Lada is a municipality and village in Prachatice District in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 300 inhabitants.
Sumava
- Categories: low mountain range, mountain range, mesoregion, and landform
- Location: South Bohemia, Czech Republic, Central Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Frisian—“Sumava” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Boheemse Woud”
- Arabic: “شومافا”
- Arabic: “غابة بوهيميا”
- Asturian: “Selva de Bohemia”
- Basque: “Bohemiako oihana”
- Belarusian: “Горы Шумава”
- Belarusian: “Шумава”
- Bengali: “বোহিমীয় অরণ্য”
- Bengali: “বোহেমীয় অরণ্য”
- Bulgarian: “Шумава”
- Catalan: “Selva de Bohèmia”
- Cebuano: “Šumava”
- Chinese: “波希米亚林山”
- Chinese: “波希米亚森林”
- Chinese: “波希米亞林山”
- Chinese: “舒馬瓦山”
- Croatian: “Češka šuma”
- Czech: “Gabreta”
- Czech: “Šumava”
- Danish: “Böhmerwald”
- Dutch: “Boheemse Woud”
- Dutch: “Bohemer Woud”
- Dutch: “Bohemerwoud”
- Dutch: “Bohemisch Woud”
- Esperanto: “Böhmerwald”
- Esperanto: “Šumava”
- Esperanto: “Ŝumavo”
- Finnish: “Böhmerwald”
- Finnish: “Šumava”
- French: “Foret de Boheme”
- French: “forêt de Bohême”
- French: “Forêt de Bohême”
- French: “Sumava”
- French: “Šumava”
- Georgian: “ბოჰემიის ტყე”
- Georgian: “შუმავა”
- German: “Böhmerwald”
- German: “Böhmische Wälder”
- German: “Böhmischer Wald”
- German: “Hoher Böhmerwald”
- German: “Sumava”
- German: “Šumava”
- Greek: “Τσεχικός Βοημικός Δρυμός της Μοραβίας”
- Hebrew: “יער בוהמיה”
- Hebrew: “רכס יער בוהמיה”
- Hungarian: “Cseh-erdő”
- Icelandic: “Bæheimsskógur”
- Italian: “Selva Boema”
- Italian: “Sumava”
- Italian: “Šumava”
- Japanese: “シュマヴァ”
- Japanese: “シュマヴァ山地”
- Japanese: “シュマバ”
- Japanese: “シュマバ山地”
- Japanese: “ベーマーヴァルト”
- Japanese: “ベーマーの森”
- Japanese: “ボヘミアの森”
- Ladin: “Bosch dl Pemen”
- Latin: “Bohemica silva”
- Latvian: “Šumava”
- Lithuanian: “Bohemijos Miškas”
- Lithuanian: “Šumava”
- Luxembourgish: “Béimesche Bësch”
- Macedonian: “Бохемска Шума”
- Macedonian: “Чешка Шума”
- Macedonian: “Шумава”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Böhmerwald”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Böhmerwald”
- Norwegian: “Böhmerwald”
- Persian: “شوماوا”
- Polish: “Hinterer Wald”
- Polish: “Šumava”
- Polish: “Szumawa”
- Romanian: “Böhmerwald”
- Romanian: “Munţii Pădurea Boemiei”
- Romanian: “Munții Pădurea Boemiei”
- Russian: “Богемский Лес”
- Russian: “Чешский лес”
- Russian: “Шумава”
- Serbian: “Češka Šumava”
- Serbian: “Чешка Шумава”
- Serbian: “Шумава”
- Silesian: “Szůmawa”
- Slovak: “Šumava”
- Slovenian: “Češki gozd”
- Slovenian: “Šumava”
- Spanish: “Bosque de Bohemia”
- Spanish: “Selva de Bohemia”
- Spanish: “Sumava”
- Spanish: “Šumava”
- Swedish: “Böhmerwald”
- Swedish: “Šumava (bergskedja i Tjeckien)”
- Swedish: “Šumava”
- Ukrainian: “Шумава”
- Upper Sorbian: “Böhmerwald”
- Upper Sorbian: “Šumava”
- Upper Sorbian: “Šumawa”
- Urdu: “سلسلہ کوہ شوماوا”
- Venetian: “Selva Boema”
- Vietnamese: “Rừng Bohemia”
- Western Frisian: “Boheemske Wâld”
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