• Source: Weser-Aller Plains and Geest

The Weser-Aller Plains and Geest (German: Weser-Aller-Flachland) is a natural regional unit of the North German Plain in Germany. It extends over most of the southern catchment of the Aller including the lower reaches of the Oker and Leine and is bounded in the west by the Middle Weser.
It is also bounded, from a natural region perspective, by the Stade Geest, the Luneburg Heath, the Wendland and the Altmark in the north; in the east by the Central German Black Earth Region (Mitteldeutsches Schwarzerdegebiet), in the south by the Northern Harz Foreland and Lower Saxon Börde and, in the west, by the Dümmer-Geest Lowland and Ems-Hunte Geest. In the BfN numbering scheme it is number D31.




Natural regional allocation


In the system of natural regions of Germany the Weser-Aller Plains are a tertiary level major region and major unit group (Number 62, two-digit) within the North German Plain (primary level major region). They are split as into the following major units (fourth level regions, three-digits) :

62 Weser-Aller Plains (D31)
620 Verden Weser Valley
621 Thedinghäusen Foregeest
622 Hanoverian Moor Geest
623 Burgdorf-Peine Geest
624 East Brunswick Plain
625 Drömling
626 Upper Aller Valley
627 Aller Valley Sand Plain
628 Loccum Geest




References






Literature


Dickinson, Robert E. (1964). Germany: A regional and economic geography (2nd ed.). London: Methuen. p. 84.

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Weser-Aller Plains and Geest
• Natural regions of Germany
• North German Plain
• Stade Geest
• Dümmer Geest Lowland
• Middle Weser Valley
• Weser Depression
• Rahden-Diepenau Geest
• Großes Moor (Vechta-Diepholz)
• Lower Saxony