. Such buildings are typical in the area. Its borders are the
Carpathians on the north, the
Bakony-
Vértes Hills in the south, the
Gerecse Hills in the east, and the
Leitha Mountains and the foothills of the
Alps in the west. In Hungary, it includes most of
Győr-Moson-Sopron and
Vas counties, and the western part of
Komárom-Esztergom and
Veszprém. The plain is roughly cut in half by the
Danube which is split up into many arms between
Bratislava and
Komárno, forming large islands. Its main tributaries are the
Váh, the
Rába, the
Rábca and the
Marcal rivers. Smaller microregions of the Little Alföld are
Hanság,
Seewinkel,
Neusiedl Basin,
Rábaköz,
Szigetköz,
Marcal Basin,
Moson Plain,
Komárom-Esztergom Plain and
Žitný ostrov. The neighbouring regions of
Kemeneshát,
Sopron-Vas Plain and
Steirisches Hügelland are sometimes classified as belonging to the Little Alföld, but Hungarian and Austrian geographers use the term in a more narrow meaning. ==History==