Zahorska lowland (Záhorská nížina)

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Zahorska lowland (Záhorská nížina) is located on the South-Western Slovakia. It has an area of approximately 1400 km2. It is situated in Region Bratislava (Bratislavský kraj) and Region Trnava (Trnavský kraj) territories. To the North it borders with the White Carpathians (Biele Karpaty) mountains, to the East with the Little Carpathians (Malé Karpaty) mountains, in the South and South-West with Austria, and to the Northwest with lowland Dolnomoravský úval.

The Western and the southern part is mostly flat, to the North and to the East is the appearance of approaching hilly area. The surface of the lowlands make up the agricultural areas, which are interlaced with pine woods, wind-blown sands and water surfaces.

From a geomorphological point of view Zahorska lowland (Záhorská nížina) as a geomorphological area is part of subprovince Vienna Basin (Viedenská kotlina) : Alpine-Himalayan system -> Pannonian Basin -> West Pannonian Basin -> Vienna Basin (Viedenská kotlina). It is divided into geomorphological wholes Borská nížina and Chvojnická pahorkatina.