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Karancs Hills

range of hills on the Hungarian-Slovakian border

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 11, 2024
Entity authorityQ1104473 ↗
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The Karancs Hills (Slovak: Mučínska vrchovina) are a range of hills on the Hungarian-Slovakian border. The highest peak is the Karancs at 729 metres (2,392 ft) above sea level.

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This entry incorporates text from “Karancs Hills” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.