Karawanken Tunnel
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Karawanken Tunnel or Karavanke Tunnel may refer to two tunnels connecting Austria
and Slovenia
under the Karawanken
mountain range:
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
and Slovenia
Slovenia
Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...
under the Karawanken
Karawanken
Karavanke or Karawanken is an Alpine mountain range on the border between Slovenia and Austria. With a total length of 120 km, the Karavanke chain is one of the longest ranges in Europe....
mountain range:
- Karawanken Tunnel (motorway)Karawanken Tunnel (motorway)The Karawanken Tunnel is a motorway tunnel crossing the Alpine Karavanke mountain range between Austria and Slovenia, with a total length of , enclosure between the portals.Its construction began in 1986 and it opened on June 1, 1991...
, a 7864 metre-long motorway tunnel, completed in 1991 - Karawanken Tunnel (railway)Karawanken Tunnel (railway)The Karawanken Tunnel is the fourth longest railway tunnel in Austria and the longest in Slovenia with a length of . The railway passes under the Rožca saddle between Rosenbach in southern Austria and Jesenice in northern Slovenia...
, a 7976 metre-long railway tunnel, completed in 1906