Highlands (landscape)
Highland is a name for a landform .
According to Meyer's Lexicon of 1907 , Hochland means “in contrast to the lowlands or the lowlands and the plains, the mountainous country and the plateaus; also preferably larger, politically or ethnographically independent regions of considerable sea level (e.g. Savoy, Abyssinia) or high-lying, extended parts of the world, e.g. B. the highlands of East Asia ”.
Highland forms
- The highlands include three different types of ground relief:
- the plateau (or plateau)
- the mountainous country
- the step or terrace land
Different highlands
Africa
- Highlands of Abyssinia = Highlands of Ethiopia
- Adamaua Highlands
- Barka highlands
- Bié highlands
- Fouta Djallon mountain range
- Khomashochland
- Lower Guinea Sill
- Rwanda highlands
- Schotts highlands
- Somali highlands
- Highlands of South Africa
America
- Highlands of the Andes : Highlands of Peru / Bolivia - Altiplano , highlands of Ecuador ( Sierra ), Andes of Colombia , v. a. Valleys ( valles interandinos )
- Highlands of Mexico : Mexican highland block s. Mexico, geology , p. a. volcanic highlands of central Mexico: Sierra Volcánica Transversal
Asia
- Aldan highlands
- Highlands of Anatolia
- Dekkan highlands
- Highlands of Iran
- Yemen highlands
- Oymyakon highlands
- Patom highlands
- Stanowoi Highlands
- Tibet highlands
- Yunnan highlands
Europe
Australia / Oceania
Web links
Wiktionary: Hochland - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Individual evidence
- ^ Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, Volume 9. Leipzig 1907, p. 399.