Natural regions of 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 (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)

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