Natural regions of Germany

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

References

  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 1.22 1.23 1.24 1.25 1.26 1.27 1.28 1.29 1.30 1.31 1.32 1.33 1.34 1.35 1.36 1.37 Elkins (1972).
  2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 2.19 2.20 2.21 2.22 2.23 2.24 2.25 2.26 2.27 2.28 2.29 2.30 2.31 2.32 2.33 2.34 2.35 2.36 2.37 2.38 2.39 2.40 2.41 2.42 2.43 2.44 2.45 Dickinson (1964).