Lower Rhine region (Germany)
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The Lower Rhine region or Niederrhein is a region around the river Rhine in Germany between approximately Neuss and Düsseldorf and the Dutch border around Emmerich. What precisely is seen as Lower Rhine, and where in the South the region end, varies a bit between individual aspects. As the Region can be defined geographically, lingustically, culturally, by economic and traffic relations of centuries, and by pretty recenty political traits, its shape is somewhat changing, and more often extended a bit beyound the Dutch border than not.
The region is part of the Lower Rhine geographic area, roughly the upper, or Southern part, and is generally a bit less than than the German part of it. While the Dutch half of the Lower Rhine geographic area is called Nederrijn in Dutch, it does practically not overlap the German Niederrhein Region, although one term is a translation of the other. Each nation confines the common concept approximately to the respective part within its own borders.
A cultural bond of the German Lower Rhine region is a common Low Rhenish language group, largely belonging to the Cleves languages of the Rhine-Maaslands language groups, and their predominantly Catholic background, contrasting to the predominantly Protestant Netherland, and their Carnival. Allt that suggests to see a small stripe of Nederland as part of the region.
The Lower Rhine landscape is mostly flat green grass land, where you have a good sight at the horizon if it is not raining. This is said to have both inspired many artists, and made the Lower Rhine inhabitants kind of special. They are seen as stubborn.
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