Natural regions of Germany

type of natural region

Major natural regions in Germany

Regions

Northeast German Plain

D01 Mecklenburg Coastal Lowland^[1] (71)
D02 Northeast Mecklenburg Lowland (including the Szczecin Lagoon) (72-73)
- Northeast Mecklenburg Lowland (72, northwest and centre)
- Szczecin Lagoon (73 east)
D03 Mecklenburg Lake Plateau Hinterland (74)
D04 Mecklenburg Lake Plateau^[1] (75)
D05 Mecklenburg-Brandenburg Plateau and Upland (76-78)
- Southwest Foreland of the Mecklenburg Lake Plateau (76, northwest)
- North Brandenburg Plateau and Upland (77, centre)
- Luchland (78, southeast)
D06 East Brandenburg Plateau (79)
D07 Oder Valley (80)
D08 Lusatian Basin and Spreewald^[1] (83-84)
- Spreewald (83, northeast)
- Lusatian Basin and Lower Lusatian Heath^[1] (84, centre, west and south)
D09 Middle Elbe Plain^[2] (87)
D10 Elbe-Mulde Plain (88)
D11 Fläming Heath^[1]^[2] (85)
D12 Brandenburg Heath and Lake District (81-82)
- Central Brandenburg Plateaux and Lowland (81, west)
- East Brandenburg Heath and Lake District (82, east)
D13 Upper Lusatian Plateau^[1] (89)
Saxon Lowland*^[2] (new overarching region/division)
- D19 Saxon Upland and Ore Mountain Foreland^[1] (45-46)
  - Ore Mountain Foreland (45, south)
  - Saxon Upland^[1] (including Leipziger Land) (46, west, north and east)
- D14 Upper Lusatia^[1]^[2] (44) - excluding the Lusatian Upland (441)
D20 Eastern Harz Foreland and Börde (50)
D29 Wendland and Altmark^[2] (86)

Northwest German Plain

D21 Schleswig-Holstein Marsch^[2] (68)
D22 Schleswig-Holstein Geest^[1]^[2] (69)
D23 Schleswig-Holstein Uplands^[2] (70)
D24 Lower Elbe Marsch^[2] (67)
D25 Ems and Weser Marsch (61)
D26 East Frisian Geest^[2] (60)
D27 Stade Geest^[2] (63)
D28 Lüneburg Heath^[1]^[2] (64)
D30 Dümmer and Ems-Hunte Geest (58-59)
- Dümmer Geest Lowland (58, south)
- Ems-Hunte Geest^[2] (59, north)
D31 Weser-Aller Plain (62)
D32 Lower Saxony Börde^[2] (52)
D33 North Harz Foreland^[2] (51)
D34 Westphalian Lowland^[2] or Basin^[1] (Münster Lowland) (54)
D35 Lower Rhine Plain^[2] and Cologne Lowland^[1]^[2] (55, 57)
- Cologne Lowland^[1]^[2] (55, south)
- Lower Rhine Plain^[2] (57, north)

Western Central Uplands

D36 Lower Saxon Hills^[1] (including the Weser^[2] and Leine Uplands^[2]) (36-37, 53)
- Lower Weser Uplands (53, northwest)
- Upper Weser Uplands (36, centre)
- Leine Uplands^[2] (37, east)
D37 Harz^[2] (38)
D38 Sauerland (Süderbergland)^[1]^[2] (33)
D39 Westerwald^[1]^[2] (32)
D40 Gießen-Koblenz Lahn Valley (31)
D41 Taunus^[1]^[2] (30)
D42 Hunsrück^[1]^[2] (24)
D43 Moselle Valley^[2] (25)
D44 Middle Rhine^[1] (including Siebengebirge) (29)
D45 Eifel^[1]^[2] (including Venn Foreland) (27-28, 56)
- East Eifel (27, east and centre)
- West Eifel (28, west)
- Venn Foreland (56, extreme northwest)
D46 West Hesse Highlands (34)
D47 East Hesse Highlands (35)
D49 Bitburg Land^[1]^[2] (Gutland) (26)
D50 Palatine-Saar Muschelkalk Region (18)
D51 Palatinate Forest^[1] (the Haardt^[2]) (17)
D52 Saar-Nahe Hills^[1] or Upland^[2] (19)

Eastern Central Uplands

Saxon Highlands and Uplands* (new supra-region)
- D14 Upper Lusatia^[2] (44) -
  - only 441 Upper Lusatian Plateau^[1]
- D15 Saxon-Bohemian Chalk Sandstone Region (43)
- D16 Ore Mountains^[1] (Erzgebirge) (42)
- D17 Vogtland^[1]^[2] (41)
D18 Thuringian Basin including outer plateaus (47-48)
- Southern plateau of the Thuringian Basin (47, south)
- Thuringian Basin^[1] (48; north, west and centre)
D48 Thuringian-Franconian Upland (39)
D63 Upper Palatine-Bavarian Forest (40)

South German Scarplands^[1]^[2]

D53 Upper Rhine Plain^[1]^[2] (20-23)
- Southern Upper Rhine Plain (20, extreme south)
- Middle Upper Rhine Plain (21, south of centre)
- Northern Upper Rhine Plain (22, centre and north)
- Rhine-Main Lowland^[1] (23, northeast)
D54 Black Forest^[1]^[2] (15)
D55 Odenwald,^[1]^[2] Spessart^[1]^[2] and South Rhön (14)
D56 Mainfranken Plateau (13)
D57 Gäu Plateaus^[1] (12)
D58 Swabian Keuper-Lias Plains^[2] (10)
D59 Franconian Keuper-Lias Plains^[2] (11)
D60 Swabian Jura^[1]^[2] (09)
D61 Franconian Jura^[1]^[2] (08)
D62 Upper Palatinate-Upper Main Hills (07)
D69 Dinkelberg and Upper Rhine Valley (16)

Alpine Foreland^[1] and Alps

D64 Iller-Lech Plateau^[2] (04)
D65 Lower Bavarian Uplands and Isar-Inn Gravel Plateau (05-06)
- Isar-Inn Gravel Plateau (05, Süden)
- Lower Bavarian Uplands^[2] (06, Mitte und Norden)
D66 Southern Alpine Foreland (03)
D67 Swabian-Bavarian Foreland (02)
D68 Northern Limestone Alps (01)

North and Baltic Seas

D70 German Bight (excluding the Heligoland rock outcrop) (900 - to 90)
D71 Dogger Bank and adjacent central North Sea (901 - to 90)
D72 Western Baltic (902 - to 90)
D73 Eastern Baltic (903 - to 90)

References

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