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    "ocrText": "A-2\nECRET\nMiddle Rhine Highlands, and the industrial\nb. The German Highlands.\nRuhr Region extends northward onto the\nSouth of the Foreland are the German\nplains and supports a practically continuous\nHighlands. This complex area consists of a\nurban belt from the Rhine River eastward\nnumber of diverse features-basins, valleys,\nthrough Essen to Dortmund. Important but\nplateaus, and mountains-which may be clas-\nsmaller industrial areas surround Cologne and\nsified according to location into three general\nAachen.\ngroups: (1) the Western Uplands; (2) the\nAlong the North Sea, the coast from Emden\nCentral and Eastern Basins and Uplands; and\nto the Danish border is low and sandy, and is\n(3) a Middle Area that rises gradually from\nprotected from the open sea by the Frisian\nnorth to south.\nIslands that lie parallel to the coast and are\nseparated from it by stretches of tidal mud\n(1) The Western Uplands.\nand sand. The Ems, Weser, and Elbe flow\nThe northernmost of the western upland\nthrough broad, shallow estuaries to reach the\nareas is the Middle Rhine Highland. This is\nNorth Sea. Hamburg and Bremen, the most\ndivided into eastern and western plateau areas\nimportant two ports of Germany, are located\nby the Rhine River, which from Bingen to\nup the estuaries respectively of the Elbe and\nBonn flows through the narrow Rhine Gorge.\nWeser, far from the sea.\nThe plateau to the west of the river is bleak,\nThe Baltic coast, east of the Danish penin-\nmoor-covered, and sparsely populated. The\nsula, is not protected by a chain of offshore\nplateau is separated from the forest-covered\nislands. The river mouths, especially along\narea to the south by the Moselle River, which\nthe east Baltic coast, are exposed to longshore\nflows from the French border to Koblenz on\ncurrents, and sand bars have formed land-\nthe Rhine. The Palatinate Hills farther south\nlocked, fresh water harbors or Haffa. South\nare more dissected and merge into the Saar\nof, and roughly parallel to the Baltic coast\nBasin in the west. This basin, famous for its\nfrom Denmark through East Prussia is a zone\ncoal deposits and industrial development, is\nof low sand and gravel hills intermixed with\nalso an area of forested hills and cultivated\nsmall lakes. Inland from this zone is a belt\nvalleys.\nof lower land that was once the valley of a\nEast of the river, the Middle Rhine High-\nlarge river system that flowed westward to the\nlands begin immediately to the south of the\nNorth Sea. Today, the western end of this\nRuhr Industrial Region. Along the northern\nvalley is occupied by the Elbe River, whereas\nfringes of the highlands and in the valleys are\nfarther east the drainage has been diverted\nareas of considerable industrial importance\nnorthward to the Baltic Sea.\nand medium-sized cities such as Solingen,\nSouth of the old valley is a second zone of\nRemscheid, and Siegen. The eastern uplands\nhills with poorly drained depressions that ex-\nare less bleak than the plateau west of the\ntends southeast from the North Sea to Silesia\nRhine. The highest elevations and steepest\nand Poland. The western end of this zone is\nslopes occur in the northwest.\nheath that occupies much of the land between\nThe eastern highlands are interrupted on\nthe Ems and Weser rivers. East of the Elbe,\nthe south by the lower Main Valley, which in-\nthe areas of heath or moor are somewhat\ncludes the important city of Frankfurt, and\nsmaller and are separated by valleys.\nby the Neckar, which joins the Rhine at\nOn the south, the North German Plain\nMannheim. Both the Main and the Neckar\nmerges into the Foreland of the German High-\nvalleys lead to the Middle Rhine Plain, a broad\nlands. The Foreland is an area of better\nlowland area of fertile soils and wide river ter-\ndrainage, fertile soils, and mineral deposits,\nraces that are intensively cultivated. In the\nwhich make it one of the most productive and\npast, its main significance has been agricul-\ndensely populated parts of Germany. Han-\ntural and commercial, but with the develop-\nnover, Magdeburg, and Breslau are all located\nment of Ludwigshafen and Mannheim, the\nalong the northern margin of the Foreland\nRhine Valley has also become important in-\nnear extensive deposits of brown coal and salt.\ndustrially.\nSECRET"
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