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The North German Plain or Northern Lowland [1] (German: Norddeutsches Tiefland) is one of the major geographical regions of Germany. It is the German part of the North European Plain . The region is bounded by the coasts of the North Sea and the Baltic Sea to the north, Germany's Central Uplands ( die Mittelgebirge ) to the south, by the ...
The Upper Rhine Plain, [1] Rhine Rift Valley [2] or Upper Rhine Graben [3] (German: Oberrheinische Tiefebene, Oberrheinisches Tiefland or Oberrheingraben, French: Vallée du Rhin) is a major rift, about 350-kilometre-long (220 mi) and on average 50-kilometre-wide (31 mi), between Basel in the south and the cities of Frankfurt/Wiesbaden in the north.
Germany's major natural regions - Level 1: dark red, 2: orange, and 3: violet; major landscape unit groups: thin violet - based on the BfL classification. This division of Germany into major natural regions takes account primarily of geomorphological, geological, hydrological, and pedological criteria in order to divide the country into large, physical units with a common geographical basis.
Thus the Southern Ridge (German: Südliche Landrücken) is a moraine of the Saale glaciation and the Northern Ridge (German: Nördliche Landrücken) is a moraine of the Weichselian glaciation. [5] The material of these sediments was picked up by the ice sheet on its way from Scandinavia to Central Europe and was deposited during the melting there.
The Swabian Keuper-Lias Plains (German: Schwäbisches Keuper-Lias-Land) is a major natural region in southwest Germany and includes the southwesternmost part of the Keuper Uplands, which is bordered immediately to the north by the Swabian Jura.
The Westphalian Basin (D34) within the North(west) German PlainThe Westphalian Lowland, [1] also known as the Westphalian Basin [2] is a flat landscape that mainly lies within the German region of Westphalia, although small areas also fall within North Rhine (in the extreme southwest) and in Lower Saxony (on the northern periphery).
The Central Uplands [1] [2] (German: die Mittelgebirge [3]) is one of the three major natural regions of Germany. It stretches east to west across the country. To the north lies the North German Plain or Northern Lowland; to the south, the Alps and the Alpine Foreland. [1]
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