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The Alps are the highest and most extensive mountain range system that lies entirely in Europe , stretching approximately across eight Alpine countries : Austria , France , Germany , Italy , Liechtenstein , Monaco , Slovenia , and Switzerland . The mountains were formed over tens of millions of years as the African and Eurasian tectonic plates collided . Extreme shortening caused by the event resulted in marine sedimentary rocks rising by thrusting and folding into high mountain peaks such as Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn . Mont Blanc spans the ___MASK53___  ___MASK51___ border , and at is the highest mountain in the Alps . The Alpine region area contains about a hundred peaks higher than 4000 metres ( just over 13 , 000 feet ). Melchior Neumayr ( October 24 , 1845 in Munich -- January 29 , 1890 ) , Austrian palaeontologist , the son of Max von Neumayr , a Bavarian Minister of State . He was educated in the university of Munich , and completed his studies at Heidelberg , where he graduated Ph . D . After some experience in field - geology under KW von Gümbel , he joined the Austrian geological survey in 1868 . Four years later he returned to Heidelberg , but in 1873 he was appointed professor of palaeontology in Vienna , and occupied this post until his death . His more detailed researches related to the Jurassic and Cretaceous ammonites and to the Tertiary freshwater Mollusca ; and in these studies he sought to trace the descent of the species . He dealt also with the zones of climate during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods , and endeavoured to show that the equatorial marine fauna differed from that of the two temperate zones , and the latter from that of the arctic zone , much as the faunas of similar zones differ from each other in the present day ; see his Über klimatische Zonen während der Jura und Kreidezeit ( Denkschr . K . Akad . Wiss . Wien , 1883 ) ; he was author also of Erdgeschichte ( 2 vols , 1887 ) ; and Die Stämme des Thierreiches ( vol . 1 only , 1889 ) . Hamburg ( local pronunciation ; Low ___MASK41___ / Low Saxon : " Hamborg " ), officially " Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg " ( Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg ), is the second largest city in Germany and the eighth largest city in the European Union . It is the second smallest ___MASK41___ state by area . Its population is over 1 . 7 million people , and the wider Hamburg Metropolitan Region covers more than 5 . 1 million inhabitants . The city is situated on the river Elbe . Bavaria is a federal state of Germany . Located in the ___MASK41___ southeast with an area of 70 , 548 square kilometres ( 27 , 200 sq mi ), Bavaria is the largest ___MASK41___ state . Its territory comprises roughly a fifth of the total land area of Germany , and , with 12 . 9 million inhabitants , it is Germany ' s second most populous state . Munich , Bavaria ' s capital and largest city , is the third largest city in Germany . Munich ( also in British ___MASK90___ ) is the capital and largest city of the ___MASK41___ state of Bavaria , on the banks of River Isar north of the Bavarian Alps . Munich is the third largest city in Germany , after Berlin and Hamburg , and the 12th biggest city of the European Union , with a population of above 1 . 5 million . The Munich Metropolitan Region is home to 5 . 8 million people .