Landforms

The Alps

Also Known As Alpes (French); Alpen (German); Alpi (Italian)

Citation Formats

General Reference

Geography Atlas. "The Alps." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-geography.interactiveatlas.org/landforms/the-alps.

APA Style

Geography Atlas. (n.d.). The Alps. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-geography.interactiveatlas.org/landforms/the-alps

BibTeX

@misc{geographyatlas-the-alps,
  author = {Geography Atlas},
  title = {The Alps},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-geography.interactiveatlas.org/landforms/the-alps},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

The Alps are the mountain range of south-central Europe, running roughly 1,200 kilometers across Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Slovenia and Switzerland, and reaching their highest point at Mont Blanc.

Facts

Area (sq km)

200,000 1

Length (km)

1200 1

Highest Elevation (m)

4809 1

The precise summit elevation of Mont Blanc, the range's highest peak, is 4,808.73 m, rounded here to the nearest metre.

Latitude

46.58 degrees north 1

Longitude

8.62 degrees east 1

Cross-Tradition Connections

The Alpine orogeny, driven by the collision of the African and Eurasian plates, raised the range.

Source Orogeny (Wikipedia)

Sources

1. Alps (Wikipedia)

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stretching approximately 1,200 km (750 mi) across several Alpine countries

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The Alps are found in the following countries: Austria (28.7% of the range's area), Italy (27.2%), France (21.4%), Switzerland (13.2%), Germany (5.8%), Slovenia (3.6%), Liechtenstein (0.08%) and Monaco (0.001%).

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