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Draft   is a name used for the geographical area in Central Europe surrounded by the Carpathian mountains. Carpathian Basin includes all the territories encircled by the Carpathians.

The basin is roughly bounded by the Carpathian mountains, the Alps, the Dinaric Alps and the Balkan mountains. The basin consists mainly of the Great Hungarian Plain (in the south and east) and the Little Alföld (in the northwest).

The Basin
In Hungarian geographical literature various subdivisions of the Carpathian Mountains (Inner Western Carpathians, Inner Eastern Carpathians, Southern Carpathians, Western Carpathians and Transylvanian Plateau) are also considered parts of the Carpathian Basin on the basis of traditional geopolitical divisions.

In Hungarian, the basin is known as Kárpát-medence. There is a related geographical term, Pannonian Basin, which covers a different, much smaller area, that doesn't include the Carpathian Mountains (See Pannonian Basin).



The basin forms a topographically discrete unit set in the European landscape, surrounded by imposing geographic boundaries that have created a fairly unified area that looks more towards the south and east than to the north and west.

Although rain is not plentiful, it usually falls when necessary and much of the basin is a major agricultural area, which potentially would be able to support a much larger population than the number of current inhabitants.

Another related geographical term is the Danube Basin, however being a much larger area it includes all the territory, covered by the tributaries of the Danube from Germany to the Ukraine.