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'''FIGURE 19. Highways, railroads, water, and air transportation routes radiate from Bratislava. The recently completed highway bridge over the Danube evidences the city's continuing transportation significance. (U/OU)'''

speeds are generally less than 40 knots. Speeds in excess of 50 knots occur at times in all seasons but most frequently in winter between 30,000 and 45,000 feet.

The eastern air approach is entirely over land, mainly across mountainous terrain. In the U.S.S.R. about 100 nautical miles from the Czechoslovakia border, the highest elevations are almost 7,100 feet. In Romania the maximum elevation is slightly more than 7,500 feet.

The southern air approach is over land. In Hungary and parts of Austria and Yugoslavia the approach is mostly over plains, which in places extend across the border into Czechoslovakia. In Yugoslavia, however, elevations are about 9,400 feet within 165 nautical miles of the Czechoslovakia border. In most of Austria and in the northeastern part of Italy, the approach is over high mountainous terrain and the maximum elevation is about 12,800 feet, 200 nautical miles from the border in Italy.

The western air approach is over land, mostly over mountainous terrain where maximum elevations of about 4,900 feet are at the outer limit of the approach and are about 4,760 feet near the West Germany-Czechoslovakia Border.

The northern air approach is mostly over land, across the relatively flat plains of Poland and East Germany, and partly across the Baltic Sea at the northern limit. The maximum elevation, nearly 8,200 feet, is in the Carpathian Mountains near the border. Rugged mountains extend almost the full length of Czechoslovakia's northern border.

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