The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians (Romanian: Carpaţi; Czech, Polish an Slovak: Karpaty; Ukrainian: Карпати (Karpaty); German: Karpaten; Serbian: Karpati / Карпати; Hungarian: Kárpátok) are a range of mountains forming an arc of roughly 1,500 km across Central and Eastern Europe. They provide the habitat for the largest populations in Europe of brown bears, wolves and lynxes, all concentrated in Romania, as well as over one third of all European plant species.