Natural regions of Germany facts for kids

Major natural regions in Germany

Regions

Northeast German Plain

• D01 Mecklenburg Coastal Lowland (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 (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 (83-84)
  • Spreewald (83, northeast)
  • Lusatian Basin and Lower Lusatian Heath (84, centre, west and south)
• D09 Middle Elbe Plain (87)
• D10 Elbe-Mulde Plain (88)
• D11 Fläming Heath (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 (89)
• Saxon Lowland* (new overarching region/division)
  • D19 Saxon Upland and Ore Mountain Foreland (45-46)
    • Ore Mountain Foreland (45, south)
    • Saxon Upland (including Leipziger Land) (46, west, north and east)
  • D14 Upper Lusatia (44) - excluding the Lusatian Upland (441)
• D20 Eastern Harz Foreland and Börde (50)
• D29 Wendland and Altmark (86)

Northwest German Plain

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

Western Central Uplands

• D36 Lower Saxon Hills (including the Weser and Leine Uplands) (36-37, 53)
  • Lower Weser Uplands (53, northwest)
  • Upper Weser Uplands (36, centre)
  • Leine Uplands (37, east)
• D37 Harz (38)
• D38 Sauerland (Süderbergland) (33)
• D39 Westerwald (32)
• D40 Gießen-Koblenz Lahn Valley (31)
• D41 Taunus (30)
• D42 Hunsrück (24)
• D43 Moselle Valley (25)
• D44 Middle Rhine (including Siebengebirge) (29)
• D45 Eifel (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 (Gutland) (26)
• D50 Palatine-Saar Muschelkalk Region (18)
• D51 Palatinate Forest (the Haardt) (17)
• D52 Saar-Nahe Hills or Upland (19)

Eastern Central Uplands

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

South German Scarplands

• D53 Upper Rhine Plain (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 (23, northeast)
• D54 Black Forest (15)
• D55 Odenwald, Spessart and South Rhön (14)
• D56 Mainfranken Plateau (13)
• D57 Gäu Plateaus (12)
• D58 Swabian Keuper-Lias Plains (10)
• D59 Franconian Keuper-Lias Plains (11)
• D60 Swabian Jura (09)
• D61 Franconian Jura (08)
• D62 Upper Palatinate-Upper Main Hills (07)
• D69 Dinkelberg and Upper Rhine Valley (16)

Alpine Foreland and Alps

• D64 Iller-Lech Plateau (04)
• D65 Lower Bavarian Uplands and Isar-Inn Gravel Plateau (05-06)
  • Isar-Inn Gravel Plateau (05, Süden)
  • Lower Bavarian Uplands (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)

Images for kids

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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

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  This map does not show the latest situation and still combines under 02 landscape units that mainly belong to the Alps.

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  The two Nagelfluh groups (02 and 96) are located in the west of the map extract on the boundary between the Alpine Foreland and the Alps

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  The major landscape region is located in the centre on the northern edge of the Alps, its southern section is part of the Intermediate Limestone Alps (935); in the unlabelled segments is a combination of the Flysch Alps (94) and foothill chains (936) with basins (908, 930).

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  The main part of the major landscape region (centre and west, below) consists of the major landscape units 931 to 933 and, in the west, parts of 95.

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  The main part of the major landscape region (southern east part of the extract) consists of major landscape uunit 934 and, in the west, of parts of 933 and 935.