Highland (landform)

Highlands is a term for a landform.

After Meyers Lexicon of 1907 highland called " contrary to the lowlands or lowlands and plains, the mountainous country, and the high levels; also preferably larger, political or ethnographic separate tracts of land of considerable altitude (eg Savoy, Abyssinia ) or high-altitude broader parts of continents, such as the highlands of East Asia ".

Highland forms

• The Highlands comprises three different types of soil reliefs:

Various Highlanders

Africa

• Highlands of Abyssinia = highlands of Ethiopia
• Highlands of Adamawa
• Highlands of Barka
• Highlands of Bie
• Fouta Djallon highlands of
• Khomashochland
• Highlands of Rwanda
• Highlands of the bulkhead
• Highlands of Somali
• Highlands of South Africa

America

• Highlands of Bolivia
• Highlands of Mexico

Asia

• Aldanhochland
• Highlands of Anatolia
• Deccan Plateau
• Highlands of Iran
• Highlands of Yemen
• Highlands of Oymyakon
• Patomhochland
• Stanowoihochland
• The highlands of Tibet
• Highlands of Yunnan

Europe

• Highlands of Castile
• Highlands of Scotland
• Central Highlands

Australia / Oceania

• Highlands of Papua New Guinea