The Carpathian Mountains are a horseshoe-shaped range ... the Carpathians rise clockwise through Slovakia and southern Poland ...

See phenomenal photos of the world’s wonders from the February 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine.

The seemingly flat silhouette of the Small Carpathian mountains can easily be overlooked ... the Main Bus Station in Bratislava), the oldest Slovak pilgrimage site from where you can delve ...

The Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of Carpathian Mountain Area inscribed on the World Heritage List consist of two Roman Catholic, three Protestant and three Greek Orthodox churches built between ...

According to Greenpeace, a forested area the size of five soccer fields disappears every hour from the Carpathians, which run through parts of Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Ukraine.

They are mostly found in northern Slovenia and Italy. In comparison, about 8,000 bears still live in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania, Poland, Ukraine and Slovakia. "Alpine bears can only survive ...

Slovakia's Low Tatras range is part of the broader Carpathian mountains, which are spread across central and eastern Europe and are a known habitat for brown bears. Wildlife researchers estimated ...

LOW TATRAS NATIONAL PARK, Slovakia — In early spring, a Belarusian couple were hiking in the trailless crags of the western Carpathian mountains when they stumbled into a brown bear. They ran but were ...