Beskidy Mountains (Beskid Mountains, Beskidy, Beskydy, Beskids) is a series of Czech Republic, northwestern Slovakia, and southern Poland, along the border between Poland and the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Beskids may be seen as a continuation of Western Carpathian Mountains. Its highest peak is Babia Gora, 5,658 ft (1,725 m).
The Beskids are rich an forest and coal. In the past they were rich in iron ore.
The Beskids ( Polish : Beskidy, Czech and Slovak : Beskydy) is a traditional name for a series of mountain ranges in the eastern Czech Republic, northwestern Slovakia, southern Poland and in Western Ukraine.
The eastern border of the Beskids is disputed: according to older sources it is the sources of the Tisza River, according to newer sources the Beskids end at the Ushok pass at the Polish-Ukrainian border.
The name of the highest mountain depends on the definition of the eastern border of the Beskids.