BOHEMIAN MASSIF

dissected quadrangular plateau, with an area of about 60,000 square miles (about 158,000 square km), occupying Bohemia, Czech Republic. Centring on Prague, it reaches a maximum elevation of 5,256 feet (1,602 m) and is bounded by four ranges: the Ore Mountains (Krun hory, or Erzgebirge) in the northwest, the Giant Mountains (Krkonoe, or Riesengebirge) in the northeast, the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands (Ceskomoravsk vysocina) in the southeast, and the Bohemian Forest (umava) in the southwest. The landscape is a rounded, forested, rather monotonous highland of crystalline rock.