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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- foreland basin
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Canton of Neuchâtel
- Material used
- sedimentary rock
- Image
- Picswiss BE-92-04 Lüderenalp (Kurhaus Hotel).jpg
- Width
- 60
- Length
- 300
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- Commons category
- Swiss plateau
- time period
- Miocene
- has boundary
- Alps
- described by source
- Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
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Encyclopedic overview
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Satellite image of the Swiss Plateau between the Jura and the Alps The Swiss Plateau or Central Plateau is one of the three major landscapes in Switzerland, lying between the Jura Mountains and the Swiss Alps. It covers about 30% of the Swiss surface area, and is partly flat but mostly hilly. The average height is between 400 metres (1,300 ft) and 700 metres (2,300 ft) AMSL. It is by far the most densely populated region of Switzerland, the center of economy and important transportation.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Swiss Plateau” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.