Šar Mountains
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mountain range in the eastern Balkan Peninsula
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The entry is geolocated on the map.
It sits within the topics IUCN Category II, Mountain ranges of Albania and Mountain ranges of Europe.
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Key facts
- Peak
- Titov Vrv , North Macedonia
- Elevation
- 2,748 m (9,016 ft)
- Native name
- Шар Планина ( Macedonian ) Шар-планина / Šar-planina ( Serbian ) Malet e Sharrit ( Albanian )
- Location
- Kukës and Dibër Counties – Albania , Ferizaj and Prizren Districts – Kosovo , Polog Valley – North Macedonia
- Countries
- Albania Kosovo North Macedonia
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mountain range
- Part of
- Alpide belt
- Country
- Albania
- Elevation
- 2748
- Highest point
- Titov Vrv
- Image
- Šar mountains.jpg
- Width
- 20
- Length
- 80
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- Commons category
- Šar Mountains
- topic's main category
- Category:Šar Mountains
- heritage designation
- Tentative World Heritage Site
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Encyclopedic overview
The Šar Mountains (Macedonian: Шар Планина, romanized: Šar Planina; Serbian: Шар-планина / Šar-planina; colloquially also Šara, Cyrillic: Шара) or Sharr Mountains (Albanian: Malet e Sharrit, pronounced [malɛt ɛ ʃarit]) is a mountain range in Southeast Europe, extending into several countries from southern Kosovo, to northwestern North Macedonia, to northeastern Albania. The sections in Kosovo (Sharr Mountains National Park) and North Macedonia (Šar Planina National Park) are national parks. Rugged and barren, the mountains are among the highest in the Balkans, with 30 peaks higher than 2,500 m (8,202 ft).
Etymology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Šar Mountains” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.