The Western Sudetes (Polish: Sudety Zachodnie; Czech: Krkonošská oblast; German: Westsudeten) are a geomorphological macroregion, the western part of the Sudetes subprovince on the borders of the Czech Republic, Poland and Germany.
They are formed mostly by mountain ranges. They stretch from the Bóbr river in the east to the Elbe and the Elbe Sandstone Mountains in the west.[1]
The Western Sudetes includes the Giant Mountains, which is the highest mountain range in the Czech Republic. All the highest mountains of the Western Sudetes are located in this mountain range. The highest peak is the Sněžka at 1,603 m (5,259 ft).
The Western Sudetes are divided into following mesoregions (number indicates its location on the infobox map):