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The plain is roughly bounded by the Carpathian mountains, the Alps, the Dinaric Alps and the Balkan mountains. Because of the long Carpathian border, it can also be referred to as the Carpathian Basin (Kárpát-medence in Hungarian). Another term is Great Hungarian Plain, though it is seldom used.
Although the rain is not plentiful, it usually falls when necessary and the plain is a major agricultural area; it is sometimes said that these fields could feed the whole of Europe.
The plain is divided among Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia, Austria, Romania and Serbia and MontenegroSerbia and Montenegro is the name of the union of Serbia and Montenegro, two former Yugoslav republics joined together into a loose union. It is located on the west-central Balkan Peninsula. Serbia and Montenegro came to an agreement only to cooperate in. This more or less includes the historical territory of the Hungarian KingdomThe Kingdom of Hungary is the name of a multiethnic kingdom that existed from 1000 to 1918. It arose in present-day western Hungary and subsequently spread to remaining present-day Hungary, to Transylvania (in present-day Romania), Slovakia, Carpatho-Ukra. The peripannonian lands, areas around this plain but not elevated like the surrounding mountains, also spread into SloveniaThe Republic of Slovenia ( Slovenian: Slovenija is a coastal sub-Alpine country in south central Europe bordering Italy to the west, the Adriatic Sea to the southwest, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north. and Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina is a mountainous country in the western Balkans. Its capital is Sarajevo and it was formerly one of the six federal units constituting Yugoslavia. The republic gained its independence in the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s and due to the.
Large areas of the plain that do not necessarily correspond to national borders include: