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Area. Germany is in Central Europe, bordering Denmark in the north, Poland and the Czech Republic in the east, Austria and Switzerland in the south, France and Luxembourg in the south-west, and Belgium and the Netherlands in the north-west. It lies mostly between latitudes 47° and 55° N (the tip of Sylt is just north of 55°), and longitudes ...
Germany is located at the centre of the map. Germany is located between the geologically very old ( Precambrian) East European Craton ( Baltica) to the north and north-east (that further north is exposed as the Baltic Shield ), and the geologically young (Cenozoic) Alpine - Carpathian Orogen to the south. The corresponding crustal provinces of ...
An enlargeable topographic map of Germany. Geography of Germany is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands.
Topography The German Central Uplands ( Mittelgebirgsschwelle ) is the Mittelgebirge area of low mountains and hills, comprising numerous individual ranges like the Rhenish Massif , the Lower Saxon Hills , the West and East Hesse Highlands , the Harz and the Thuringian-Franconian Highlands as well as the Bohemian Massif - in between the North ...
Northern Germany. Northern Germany (German: Norddeutschland, pronounced [ˈnɔʁtdɔɪ̯tʃlant] ⓘ) is a linguistic, geographic, socio-cultural and historic region in the northern part of Germany which includes the coastal states of Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Lower Saxony and the two city-states Hamburg and Bremen.
Geography of the Alps. The Alps seen from space. The Alps form a large mountain range dominating Central Europe, including parts of Italy, France, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, Slovenia, Germany and Hungary . DEM-based shaded relief /hypsometric image of the Alps with the borders of the countries.
Central Uplands in North Rhine-Westphalia: Siegtal in the Rhenish Massif. 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.
The North German Plain largely corresponds to the dark green surfaces north of the tan-coloured low mountain ranges. Morning fog in East Frisia. 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.