Lowlands
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Geographic regions
- Scottish LowlandsScottish LowlandsThe Scottish Lowlands is a name given to the Southern half of Scotland.The area is called a' Ghalldachd in Scottish Gaelic, and the Lawlands ....
, all of mainland Scotland that isn't the Highlands- see also Central LowlandsCentral LowlandsThe Central Lowlands or Midland Valley is a geologically defined area of relatively low-lying land in southern Scotland. It consists of a rift valley between the Highland Boundary Fault to the north and the Southern Uplands Fault to the south...
- see also Central Lowlands
- Northern European LowlandsNorthern European LowlandsThe North European Plain is a geomorphological region in Europe. It consists of the low plains between the Central European Highlands to the south and the North Sea and the Baltic Sea to the north. These two seas are separated by the Jutland peninsula...
, a region of Europe between the Central Highlands and the North Sea- Low CountriesLow CountriesThe Low Countries are the historical lands around the low-lying delta of the Rhine, Scheldt, and Meuse rivers, including the modern countries of Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and parts of northern France and western Germany....
, the countries that inhabit this region - Silesian LowlandsSilesian LowlandsSilesian Lowlands are lowlands located in Silesia, Poland and Czechia. It's part of the North European Plain...
, the part that lies in Poland
- Low Countries
- Caribbean LowlandsCaribbean LowlandsThe Caribbean Lowlands are a common region in Central American nations. It is the area usually on the Eastern side of a country, bordering the Caribbean Sea....
, the low-lying eastern side of mesoamerican countries - Eastern Ridges and LowlandsEastern Ridges and LowlandsThe Eastern Ridges and Lowlands is a geographical region in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Wisconsin, between Green Bay in the north, and the border with Illinois in the south...
, a region of Eastern Wisconsin, USA - Saint Lawrence LowlandsSaint Lawrence LowlandsThe St. Lawrence Lowlands is an ecoregion of Mixedwood Plains and a physiographic region of Canada and the United States. It is sometimes named the "Great Lakes/St. Lawrence Lowlands", but that name improperly includes the Great Lakes Basin which, while it might drain to the Atlantic Ocean by way...
, a region of North American containing the Great Lakes - Arctic Lowlands, of Northern Canada
- Hudson Bay LowlandsHudson Bay LowlandsThe Hudson Bay Lowlands is a large, poorly drained piece of wetlands wedged between the Canadian Shield and southern shores of Hudson Bay and James Bay. Many wide and slow-moving rivers flow through this area toward the salt water of Hudson Bay. Mosquitoes and black flies thrive here. This is a...
, also of Northern Canada - Rasmussen LowlandsRasmussen LowlandsThe Rasmussen Lowlands is a 3,000 km² coastal plain complex of wetlands in Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut, Canada. It was designated a Ramsar wetland of international importance by the Ramsar Convention on May 24, 1982...
, again of Northern Canada - Meshchera LowlandsMeshchera LowlandsMeshchera Lowlands , also referred to as simply "Meshchera"/"Meshchyora" is a spacious lowland in the middle of the European Russia. It is named after the Finno-Ugric Meshchera tribe, which used to live there...
, of Western Russia
Ethnographic regions
- SamogitiaSamogitiaSamogitia is one of the five ethnographic regions of Lithuania. It is located in northwestern Lithuania. Its largest city is Šiauliai/Šiaulē. The region has a long and distinct cultural history, reflected in the existence of the Samogitian dialect...
, one of the five ethnographic regions of Lithuania (literally meaning "Lowlands")
Other uses
- Lowlands (album), a 2000 album by Susan McKeown
- A Campingflight to Lowlands ParadiseA Campingflight to Lowlands ParadiseA Campingflight to Lowlands Paradise, also known as simply Lowlands, is a music festival, held annually in the Netherlands in August. Lowlands has about 55,000 visitors, over 200 acts and more than ten stages every year which are named according to the NATO phonetic alphabet apart from the Grolsch...
, a Dutch music festival - Tiefland (film)Tiefland (film)Tiefland is a 1954 film that Leni Riefenstahl scripted, directed, acted in, and edited. It was produced by Leni Riefenstahl and Josef Plesner. It is based on the opera Tiefland and the original play Terra baixa by Àngel Guimerà...
(Lowlands), a 1954 film directed by Leni Riefenstahl - Tiefland (opera)Tiefland (opera)Tiefland is an opera in a prologue and three acts by Eugen d'Albert, to a libretto in German by Rudolph Lothar. Based on the 1896 Catalan play Terra baixa by Àngel Guimerà, Tiefland was d'Albert's seventh opera, and is the one which is now the best known.-Performance history:Tiefland was first...
(Lowlands), a 1903 opera composed by Eugen d'Albert
See also
- LowlandLowlandIn physical geography, a lowland is any broad expanse of land with a general low level. The term is thus applied to the landward portion of the upward slope from oceanic depths to continental highlands, to a region of depression in the interior of a mountainous region, to a plain of denudation, or...
, the generic geographic term - Upland and lowland (freshwater ecology)Upland and lowland (freshwater ecology)In studies of the ecology of freshwater rivers, habitats are classified as upland and lowland.-Definitions:Upland habitats are cold, clear, rocky, fast flowing rivers in mountainous areas; lowland habitats are warm, slow flowing rivers found in relatively flat lowland areas, with water that is...