The Upper Palatine-Bavarian Forest ( German: Oberpfälzisch-Bayerische Wald), (no. D63 or 40) is a natural region in Germany in the northeast of Bavaria. It mainly comprises the low mountain ranges of the Bavarian Forest and Upper Palatine Forest which are up to 1456 m high and border on the Bohemian Massif immediately inside the Czech Republic's southwestern border with Germany.

Division into geographical units

• 40 (=D63) Upper Palatine-Bavarian Forest
  • 400 Upper Palatine Forest - East
  • 401 Upper Palatine Forest - West
  • 402 Cham-Furth Depression
  • 403 Bavarian Forest - North
  • 404 Regen Depression
  • 405 Bavarian Forest - South
  • 406 Falkensteiner Vorwald
  • 407 Lallinger Winkel
  • 408 Passau Abteiland and Neuburg Forest
  • 409 Wegscheid Plateau

Neighbouring main unit groups are:

• 39 (= D48) Thuringian-Franconian Highlands
• 08 (= D61) Franconian Jura
• 07 (= D62) Upper Palatine-Upper Main Hills
• 06 Lower Bavarian Hills (part of D65)

Literature

• Meynen, Emil (ed.) Handbuch der naturräumlichen Gliederung Deutschlands. Selbstverlag der Bundesanstalt für Landeskunde, Remagen 1953-1962 (Teil 1, enthält Lieferung 1-5), ISBN B0000BJ19E
• Meynen, Emil (ed.) Handbuch der naturräumlichen Gliederung Deutschlands. Selbstverlag der Bundesanstalt für Landeskunde, Remagen 1959-1962 (Teil 2, enthält Lieferung 6-9), ISBN B0000BJ19F

External links

• BfN natural region fact files:
  • Main highland backbone
    • Upper Palatine Forest - East
    • Bavarian Forest - North
    • Wegscheid Plateau
  • Foothills and lowlands
    • Upper Palatine Forest - West
    • Cham-Furth Depression
    • Regen Valley between Roding and Regensburg
    • Lower Falkenstein Forest
    • Regensburg Forest, Forstmühle and Waxenberg Forests
    • Regen Depression
    • Bavarian Forest - South
    • Lallinger Winkel
    • Passau Abteiland - North
    • Passau Abteiland - South