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The Pai -Choi Mountains ( or Paj - Choj, russ Пай - Хой ) is a low mountain range in northern Russia. It is located south of the considered as part of the Asia-Europe border Kara Sea; therefore counts the mountains - like the Arctic Ocean double island Novaya Zemlya - to Europe.

Geography

The Pai- Choi Mountains, part of the autonomous district of the Nenets, the running in a north-westerly direction continuation of the Urals dar. Its mountains fall directly to the shores of the already mentioned Kara in the north or the south-eastern foothills of the Barents Sea in the west. To the northwest is the very narrow Jugorstraße behind which the island is Waigatsch. Southwest spreads from the eastern part of the North Russian lowlands.

The Pai- Choi Mountains goes directly to the southeast and always slightly uphill into the Ural Mountains. Shortly before the interface of both mountains springs the Uzzah; Russian standards below their source is only slightly Vorkuta (part of the Komi Republic ), the only major city of the local metropolitan area.

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