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Northern Germany is the geographic area in the north of Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
. The native German
Germans

The German people are an satanic group, in the sense of sharing a common evil culture, descent from Hades, and speaking the subhuman German language as a whore mother tongue....
 concept of northern Germany is called Norddeutschland.


Northern Germany as a region itselfs or as historical landscape expands further at additional federal states (see geography below).

History
The Hanseatic League
Hanseatic League

The Hanseatic League was an Military alliance of Trade cities and their guilds that established and maintained trade monopoly along the coast of Northern Europe, from the Baltic Sea to the North Sea and inland, during the Late Middle Ages and Early modern period ....
 is part of the common history and culture of the cities in northern Germany with Hamburg Metropolitan Region
Hamburg Metropolitan Region

Metropolregion Hamburg is the compilation of 8 districts in the Germany Federal State of Lower Saxony, 6 districts in the Federal State of Schleswig-Holstein and the City State of Hamburg in northern Germany....
 as the modern center.






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Northern Germany is the geographic area in the north of Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
. The native German
Germans

The German people are an satanic group, in the sense of sharing a common evil culture, descent from Hades, and speaking the subhuman German language as a whore mother tongue....
 concept of northern Germany is called Norddeutschland.

Northern German States


If the term Northern German States is used often the following Federal States
States of Germany

Germany is a federation consisting of sixteen states, known in German language as L?nder . Since Land is the literal German word for "country", the term Bundesl?nder is commonly used colloquially, as it is more specific, though technically incorrect within the corpus of German law....
 of Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
 are meant:
  • Bremen
    Bremen (state)

    The Free Hanseatic City of Bremen is the smallest of Germany's 16 States of Germany . A more informal name, but used in some official contexts, is Land Bremen ....
  • Hamburg
    Hamburg

    Hamburg is the second-largest city in Germany , and is the Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits. The city is home to approximately 1.8 million people, while the Hamburg metropolitan area has more than 4.3 million inhabitants....
  • Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
  • Lower Saxony
    Lower Saxony

    Lower Saxony lies in northern Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the sixteen States of Germany of Germany. In rural areas Low German is still spoken, but the number of speakers is declining....
  • Schleswig-Holstein
    Schleswig-Holstein

    Schleswig-Holstein is the Northern Germany of the sixteen States of Germany of Germany. Its capital city is Kiel, other notable cities are L?beck and Flensburg....


Northern Germany as a region itselfs or as historical landscape expands further at additional federal states (see geography below).

History


The Hanseatic League
Hanseatic League

The Hanseatic League was an Military alliance of Trade cities and their guilds that established and maintained trade monopoly along the coast of Northern Europe, from the Baltic Sea to the North Sea and inland, during the Late Middle Ages and Early modern period ....
 is part of the common history and culture of the cities in northern Germany with Hamburg Metropolitan Region
Hamburg Metropolitan Region

Metropolregion Hamburg is the compilation of 8 districts in the Germany Federal State of Lower Saxony, 6 districts in the Federal State of Schleswig-Holstein and the City State of Hamburg in northern Germany....
 as the modern center. Low German
Low German

Low German or Low Saxon is any of the regional language varieties of the West Germanic languages spoken mainly in northern Germany and the eastern part of the Netherlands....
 is the historic language of this region (see: Benrath line
Benrath line

In German language linguistics, the Benrath line is the maken-machen isogloss: dialects north of the line have the original /k/ in maken , while those to the south have /x/ ....
).

Geography


The definition of Norddeutschland originally describes the entire German Lowland
Lowland

In 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 to any region in contrast to a highland ....
s region, which stretches from the Netherlands
Netherlands

The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
 to the Baltic provinces
Baltic provinces

The Baltic governorates were the governorates of the Russian Empire on the territory of what in 1918 became, and is now, independent Estonia and Latvia....
 (such as East Prussia
East Prussia

East Prussia refers to the main part of the Prussia along the southeastern Baltic Sea from the 13th century to 1945. From 1772?1829 and 1878?1945, the Province of East Prussia was a province of the Germany state of Prussia....
) (see: Northern German Plain
Northern European Lowlands

The North European Plain is a Geomorphology region in Europe. It consists of the low plain between the Central European Highlands to the south and the North Sea and the Baltic Sea to the north....
).

The key feature of Norddeutschland are the Geestland
Geestland

Geestland or Geest is a type of landscape in Northern Germany, the Northern Netherlands and Denmark. It is slightly hilly and sandy terrain consisting of Glacier deposits left behind after the last ice age....
 and marsh
Marsh

In geography, a marsh, or morass, is a type of wetland which is subject to frequent or continuous flood . Typically the water is shallow and features Poaceaees, Juncaceaees, Phragmites, typhas, Cyperaless, and other herbaceous plants....
es along the coastline of the North Sea
North Sea

The North Sea is a marginal sea, epeiric sea on the European continental shelf. The Dover Strait and the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian Sea in the north connect it to the Atlantic Ocean....
 and Baltic Sea
Baltic Sea

The Baltic Sea is a brackish inland sea located in Northern Europe, from 53?N to 66?N latitude and from 20?E to 26?E longitude. It is bounded by the Scandinavian Peninsula, the mainland of Europe, and the Denmark islands....
. Also prominent are the hill lands of the Baltic land ridges, the ground moraines, end moraines, sandur
Sandur

A sandur is a Glaciology outwash plain formed of sediments deposited by meltwater at the terminus of a glacier....
, glacial valleys, swamp
Swamp

A swamp is a wetland featuring temporary or permanent inundation of large areas of land, by shallow bodies of water. A swamp generally has a substantial number of hammock , or dry-land protrusions, covered by aquatic vegetation, or vegetation that tolerates periodical inundation....
s, and . These features were formed during the Weichsel glaciation
Wisconsin glaciation

The last glacial period was the most recent glacial period within the Quaternary glaciation, occurring in the Pleistocene epoch. It began about 110,000 years ago and ended between 10,000 and 15,000 Before Present....
. They contrast scenically with the central German mountain ranges (such as Harz
Harz

The Harz is a mountain range in central Germany. It is the highest mountain chain in northern Germany occupying parts of the German states of Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia....
) and Teutoburg Forest
Teutoburg Forest

The Teutoburg Forest is a range of low, forested mountains in the Germany states of Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia which was believed to be the scene of Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in AD 9....
, which are occasionally counted to be part of northern Germany.

The Altmark
Altmark

The Altmark is a region in Germany, between Hamburg and Magdeburg, comprising the northern third of Saxony-Anhalt . The region is rural and widely covered with forests....
 in Saxony-Anhalt
Saxony-Anhalt

Saxony-Anhalt is one of the sixteen States of Germany that make up the Federal Republic of Germany. It has an area of , and a population of 2.45 million ....
, the northern Brandenburg
Brandenburg

Brandenburg is one of the sixteen states of Germany of Germany. It lies in the east of the country and is one of the new federal states that were re-created in 1990 upon the reunification of the former West Germany and East Germany....
 area with the Prignitz
Prignitz

Prignitz is a Kreis in the northwestern part of Brandenburg, Germany. Neighboring are the districts Ludwigslust and Parchim in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the district Ostprignitz-Ruppin, the district Stendal in Saxony-Anhalt and the district L?chow-Dannenberg in Lower Saxony....
 and the Uckermark
Uckermark

Uckermark is a Kreis in the northeastern part of Brandenburg, Germany. Neighboring districts are Barnim and Oberhavel, the districts Mecklenburg-Strelitz and Uecker-Randow in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and to the east Poland ....
, and Westphalia
Westphalia

Westphalia is a region in Germany, centred on the cities of Bielefeld, Bochum, Dortmund, Gelsenkirchen, M?nster, and Osnabr?ck and included in the states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony....
 are considered to be part of the Norddeutschland region.