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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.
Upper Rhine (German: Oberrhein [ˈoːbɐˌʁaɪn] ⓘ; French: Rhin Supérieur; kilometres [a] 167 to 529 of the Rhine) [2] is the section of the Rhine between the Middle Bridge in Basel, Switzerland, and the Rhine knee in Bingen, Germany. It is surrounded by the Upper Rhine Plain (Oberrheinische Tiefebene).
The Upper Rhine Plain and foothill zone of the southern Black Forest.View from Staufen Castle towards Schönberg (rear right). The foothill zone of the Upper Rhine Plain (German: Vorbergzone des Oberrheingraben) is the hill country in front of the mountains either side of the Upper Rhine Plain, especially those in front of the Black Forest, Vosges and Palatinate Forest.
Haut-Rhin is the smaller and less populated of the two departments of the former administrative Alsace region, the other being the Bas-Rhin (Lower Rhine). Especially after the 1871 cession of the southern territory known since 1922 as Territoire de Belfort , although it is still rather densely populated compared to the rest of metropolitan France .
Vineyards south of Darmstadt – view towards the Rhine Plain Darmstadt is located in the Upper Rhine Plain (German: Oberrheinische Tiefebene), a major rift, about 350 km (217 mi) long and on average 50 km (31 mi) wide, between the cities of Frankfurt in the north and Mannheim in the south.
The river now flows north as Upper Rhine through the Upper Rhine Plain, which is about 300 km long and up to 40 km wide. The most important tributaries in this area are the Ill below of Strasbourg, the Neckar in Mannheim and the Main across from Mainz. In Mainz, the Rhine leaves the Upper Rhine Valley and flows through the Mainz Basin.
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