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Paul Veyret
Professor of Mountain Geography, University of Grenoble I, France. Coauthor of Au coeur de l'Europe: Les Alpes and others.
Paul Veyret,
Aubrey Diem
Professor of Geography, University of Waterloo, Ontario. Author of Switzerland: Land, People, Economy and others.
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Alps, a small segment of a discontinuous mountain chain that stretches from the Atlas Mountains of North Africa across southern Europe and Asia to beyond the Himalayas. The Alps extend north from the subtropical Mediterranean coast near Nice, France, to Lake Geneva before trending east-northeast to Vienna (at the Vienna Woods). There they touch the Danube River and meld with the adjacent plain. The Alps form part of France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, and Albania. Only Switzerland and Austria can be considered true Alpine countries, however. Some 750 miles (1,200 kilometres) long and ...(100 of 4752 words)

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