Great Hungarian Plain

The Great Plain (Hungarian ( Nagy ) Alfold, Slovak VeLka Dunajská kotlina ) is a part of the Pannonian Plain, located in the eastern part of Hungary, in parts of Romania, Serbia and Croatia, and at the edge of Slovakia ( " East Slovak Lowland " ) and Ukraine ( " Transcarpathian lowland " ) extends. It is the westernmost part of the Eurasian steppe belt of a large vegetation zone.

It is drained by the river Tisza and the Danube, and of larger tributaries ( Maros, Körös ) and two main channels of the river Tisza, called Keleti and Nyugati - channel channel.

In the west the plain of the Danube is limited to the north and east by the Carpathian Mountains, in the south of the Balkan Mountains.

Important cities in the Great Hungarian Plain are:

• In Hungary, Szeged and Debrecen (both ~ 200,000 inhabitants), and Kecskemét, Nyíregyháza and Szolnok
• In Romania, Timisoara ( Temesvár, ~ 400,000 inhabitants)., and Arad (both in the Banat ), Oradea ( Oradea ) and Satu Mare ( Satu Mare )
• In Serbia, Subotica ( Maria Theresiopel ), Sombor, Kikinda (all three in the province of Vojvodina), Zrenjanin and to the south the city of Novi Sad
• Michalovce in eastern Slovakia and Carpathian Ukraine, 40 km east location Uzhhorod

The Great Hungarian Plain ( Nagyalföld ) is now cultivated mainly for farming. Still in 1850, she worked as Puszta ( literally " wasteland " ) often suitable wetland and only for livestock.

The west of the Danube -lying part of the Great Hungarian Plain, which is about 10,000 square kilometers, the river level Mezőföld that begins between Budapest and Lake Balaton. It extends between Sárvíz and Danube downstream to the Mecsek mountains ( 600-700 m) on the southern border with Croatia.

Do not confuse this low level with the similar but different type of geomorphological Little Hungarian Plain.

It is a vast sedimentary basins of the Alps that actually continue to run deep below the Balaton area, Carpathians and Dinarides.