 They stretch from the Saxon capital of Dresden in the northwest, to the Głubczyce plateau ("Płaskowyż Głubczycki") in Poland and to the Ostrava Basin and Moravian Gate ("Moravská brána") in the Czech Republic in the east.Geographically the Sudetes are a "Mittelgebirge" with some characteristics typical of high mountains.Its plateaus and subtle summit relief makes the Sudetes more akin to mountains of Northern Europe than to the Alps.