Tetovo is located close to the Shar Mountain, the highest and biggest mountain area in Macedonia. This is an important feature of the city where the mountain is always somewhere in the landscape, and the everyday life connected to it.

Shar Planina massif spreads from the Lepenec river on northeast, to the inflow of Mavrovska Reka rivulet into Radika river on south, between Macedonia, Albania and Kosovo. The main characteristic of this mountain is the long continuous ridge, which is 85 km long, starting from Ljuboten to Vrutok. The surface of this huge massif is more than 1600 km2. The highest peak is Titov Vrv (2748m). Shar planina counts 39 lakes and 25 of them are permanents.