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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.
Category: Regions of Germany by state. ... Regions of North Rhine-Westphalia (16 C, 31 P) R. Regions of Rhineland-Palatinate (14 C, 26 P) S. Regions of Saxony (7 C, 15 P)
The Federal Republic of Germany is a federation and consists of sixteen partly sovereign states. [a] Of the sixteen states, thirteen are so-called area-states ('Flächenländer'); in these, below the level of the state government, there is a division into local authorities (counties and county-level cities) that have their own administration.
The Alps on the southern border are the highest mountains, but relatively little Alpine terrain lies within Germany (in southeastern Swabia and Upper Bavaria) compared to Switzerland and Austria. The Black Forest , on the southwestern border with France, separates the Rhine from the headwaters of the Danube on its eastern slopes.
The sixteen constituent states of Germany are divided into a total of 401 administrative Kreis or Landkreis; these consist of 294 rural districts [1] (German: Landkreise or Kreise – the latter in the states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Schleswig-Holstein only), and 107 urban districts (Kreisfreie Städte or, in Baden-Württemberg only, Stadtkreise – cities that constitute districts in ...
The following is a list of ecoregions in Germany defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). Terrestrial. Germany is in the Palearctic realm.
Regions of Germany by state (12 C) Landforms of Germany by state (23 C) ... Protected areas of Germany by state (14 C) B. Geography of Baden-Württemberg (19 C, 33 P)
Castles in Germany by region (3 C) C. Central Uplands (5 C, 80 P) Cultural landscapes of Germany (2 C, 12 P) E. Regions of the Eifel (27 P) Elbe-Elster Land (15 P) M.