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Vast interior plain east of the North/Central European
The East European Plain (also called the Russian Plain ,
[1] or historically the Sarmatic Plain )
[2] is a vast interior
plain extending east of the
North European Plain ,
[3] and comprising several
plateaus stretching roughly from 25
degrees
longitude eastward. It includes
Volhynian-Podolian Upland on its westernmost fringe, the
Central Russian Upland , and, on the eastern border, encompasses the
Volga Upland . The plain includes also a series of major
river basins such as the
Dnepr Basin , the
Oka–Don Lowland , and the
Volga Basin . At the southeastern point of the East European Plain are the
Caucasus and
Crimean
mountain ranges .
[3] Together with the
North European Plain (covering much of Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany and Poland), and covering the
Baltic states (
Estonia ,
Latvia and
Lithuania ),
European Russia ,
Belarus ,
Ukraine ,
Moldova , southeastern
Romania , and, at its southernmost point, the
Danubian Plain in
Northern Bulgaria (including
Ludogorie and
Southern Dobruja ), it constitutes the majority of the
Great European Plain (European Plain), the greatest mountain-free part of the European landscape.
[4] The plain spans approximately 4,000,000 km2 (2,000,000 sq mi) and averages about 170 m (560 ft) in elevation. The highest point of the plain, located in the
Valdai Hills , is 346.9 metres (1,138.1 ft).[
citation needed ]
Approximate extent of the East European Plain.
[5]
Boundaries
West :
Baltic Sea ,
Oder [
citation needed ] and
Lusatian Neisse ,
Sudetenland ,[
citation needed ]
Carpathians [
citation needed ] (Outer Western Carpathians, Outer Eastern Carpathians,
Southern Carpathians ,
Serbian Carpathians ).[
citation needed ]
South :
Balkan Mountains ,
Black Sea ,
Crimean Mountains ,
Caucasus ,
The Caspian Sea and the
Sea of Azov ,
Ustyurt Plateau .
East :
Ural Mountains and
Turan Depression .
North :
White Sea ,
Barents Sea ,
Kara Sea ,
Scandinavian Mountains .
Regional subdivisions
Other major landforms
The following major
landform features are within the East European Plain (listed generally from north to south).
Largest rivers
See also
References
^
a
b
c
d
e
European Plain at the
Encyclopædia Britannica "Extending from eastern Poland through the entire
European Russia to the
Ural Mountaina , the East European Plain encompasses all of the Baltic states and Belarus, nearly all of Ukraine, and much of the European portion of Russia and reaches north into Finland." — Britannica .
^ Podwysocki, Melvin H.; Earle, Janet L., eds. (1979). Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Basement Tectonics . Basement Tectonics Committee. p. 379.
^
a
b John F. Hoffecker (2002).
Desolate Landscapes: Ice-Age Settlement in Eastern Europe .
Rutgers University Press . pp. 15–21.
ISBN
0813529921 . Retrieved 17 May 2014 .
^ Marshall Cavendish (2010).
World and Its Peoples . Volume 8 of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland. p. 1014.
ISBN
978-0761478966 . Retrieved 17 May 2014 .
^ Bolesław Augustowski Wielkie regiony naturalne Europy w: Antoni Wrzosek (red.) Geografia Powszechna. Tom III. Europa (bez ZSRR), Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Warszawa 1965
External links
Media related to
East European Plain at Wikimedia Commons