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Upper Palatine Bavarian Forest

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The Upper Palatine-Bavarian Forest (German: Oberpfälzisch-Bayerische Wald), (no. D63 or 40) is a natural region in Germany in the northeast of Bavaria. It mainly comprises the low mountain ranges of the Bavarian Forest and Upper Palatine Forest which are up to 1456 m high and border on the Bohemian Massif immediately inside the Czech Republic's southwestern border with Germany.

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Division into geographical units

  • 40 (=D63) Upper Palatine-Bavarian Forest
  • 400 Upper Palatine Forest - East
  • 401 Upper Palatine Forest - West
  • 402 Cham-Furth Depression
  • 403 Bavarian Forest - North
  • 404 Regen Depression
  • 405 Bavarian Forest - South
  • 406 Lower Falkenstein Forest
  • 407 Lallinger Winkel
  • 408 Passau Abteiland and Neuburg Forest
  • 409 Wegscheid Plateau

    • Neighbouring main unit groups are:

  • 39 (= D48) Thuringian-Franconian Highlands
  • 08 (= D61) Franconian Jura
  • 07 (= D62) Upper Palatine-Upper Main Hills
  • 06 Lower Bavarian Hills (part of D65)

    • Literature

  • Meynen, Emil (ed.) Handbuch der naturräumlichen Gliederung Deutschlands. Selbstverlag der Bundesanstalt für Landeskunde, Remagen 1953-1962 (Teil 1, enthält Lieferung 1-5), ISBN B0000BJ19E
  • Meynen, Emil (ed.) Handbuch der naturräumlichen Gliederung Deutschlands. Selbstverlag der Bundesanstalt für Landeskunde, Remagen 1959-1962 (Teil 2, enthält Lieferung 6-9), ISBN B0000BJ19F

    • References

    Upper Palatine-Bavarian Forest Wikipedia
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