Eastern Beskids

The Eastern Beskids or Eastern Beskyds (; ; ; ) are a geological group of mountain ranges of the Beskids, within the Outer Eastern Carpathians. As a continuation of the Central Beskids, this mountain range includes the far southeastern corner of Poland, the far eastern corner of Slovakia, and stretches southward through western parts of Ukraine, up to the border of Romania.Encyclopedia of Ukraine: Volcanic Ukrainian CarpathiansEncyclopedia of Ukraine: Polonynian Beskyd

In Polish and Ukrainian terminology, the range is commonly called the "Eastern Beskids" (; ), while in Slovakia, the term Meadowed Mountains () is also used. The scope of those terms varies in accordance to different traditions and classifications.

At the three-way border, portions of the Slovak Bukovec Mountains (), the Polish Bieszczady Mountains (), and the adjacent "Uzhanskyi National Nature Park" and Nadsianskyi Regional Landscape Park in Ukraine form the transnational East Carpathian Biosphere Reserve.

Subdivisions

The Eastern Beskids are commonly divided into two parallel ridges: Wooded Beskids and Polonynian Beskids.

Wooded Beskids (; ): Bieszczady Mountains (; ; ) → c1 Western Bieszczady (; ) mainly in Poland and Slovakia, including the Bukovec Mountains () Eastern Bieszczady (; ), mainly in Ukraine Sanok-Turka Mountains (; ) → c3 Skole Beskids (; ) → c2 Gorgany (; ) → c4 Pokuttia-Bukovina Beskids (; ) → c5

Polonynian Beskids (; ): Smooth Polonyna (; ) → c6 Polonyna Borzhava (; ) → c7 Polonyna Kuk (; ) → c8 Red Polonyna (; )→ c9 Svydovets (; ) → c10 Chornohora (; ) → c11 Hryniavy Mountains (; ) → c12

Eastern Beskids

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