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The Alps are one of the great mountain range systems of Europe stretching approximately 1200 kilometres (750 mi) across eight Alpine countries from Austria and Slovenia in the east France Switzerland Liechtenstein and south east Germany to the west. Monaco and Italy to the south. The mountains were formed over tens of millions of years as the African and Eurasian tectonic plates collided.

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