Styrian Prealps
# Styrian Prealps

The Styrian Prealps (in German Steirisches Randgebirge, in Slovenian Štajersko Robno hribovje, in Hungarian Stájer Elő-Alpok) is the proposed name for a subdivision of mountains in a new, and as yet unadopted, classification of the Alps, located in Austria and, marginally, in Slovenia and Hungary.

## Geography

The whole range is drained by the tributaries of the Danube river.

### SOIUSA classification

According to SOIUSA (International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps) the Styrian Prealps are an Alpine section, classified in the following way:

* main part = Eastern Alps
* major sector = Central Eastern Alps
* section = Styrian Prealps
* code = II/A-20

### Subdivision

The Styrian Prealps are divided into four subsections:

* North-western Styrian Prealps (Stubalpe; Gleinalpe; Western Graz Highlands) - SOIUSA code:II/A-20.I;
* South-western Styrian Prealps (Koralpe; Reinischkögel; Kobansko) - SOIUSA code:II/A-20.II
* Central Styrian Prealps (Fischbach Alps; Eastern Graz Highlands) - SOIUSA code:II/A-20.III;
* Eastern Styrian Prealps (Wechsel-Joglland; Bucklige Welt; Bernstein-Güns; Rosalien-Ödenburg) - SOIUSA code:II/A-20.IV.

## Notable summits

Some notable summits of the Styrian Prealps are:

| Name | metres | feet |
| - | - | - |
| Ameringkogel | 2,184 | 7,164 |
| Großer Speikkogel | 2,140 | 7,019 |
| Stuhleck | 1,782 | 5,845 |
| Wechsel | 1,743 | 5,717 |
| Hochlantsch | 1,720 | 5,642 |
| Košenjak | 1,522 | 4,992 |
