Topography of Europe
Topography of Europe
The
European Plain or
Great European
Plain is a
plain in
Europe. It is the largest
mountain-free
landform in
Europe, although a number of
highlands are identified within.
It
stretches from the Pyrenees Mountains
and the Atlantic Ocean
in the west to the Ural Mountains
in the east.
It consists of the
North European
Plain and the
East European
Plain.
The subdivision is a historical one, rather
than geomorphological: the East European Plain was part of the
European Plain within the Russian Empire
and therefore was formerly known as the Russian
Plain.
In Western Europe, the plain is relatively narrow (mostly within
200 miles) in the northern part of Europe, but it broadens
significantly toward its eastern part in Western Russia.
The plains
are cut by many important rivers like the Loire
, Rhine
and Vistula in the west; the Northern Dvina and Daugava flowing northwards in Eastern Europe and
Russia and the Volga, the Don and the Dnieper flowing southwards of the European Russia.
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