Title: Natural regions of Germany Content: thumb|400px|Major natural regions in Germany thumb|300px ==Regions== === Northeast German Plain === *D01 Mecklenburg Coastal LowlandElkins (1972). (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 HeathDickinson (1964). (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) thumb|300px === 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) thumb|300px === 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) thumb|300px === 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) thumb|300px === 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) thumb|300px === 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)