The Lower Bavarian Upland, Lower Bavarian Hill Country (German: ''Niederbayerisches Hügelland'') or Lower Bavarian Hills, are part of the tertiary '' Hügelland'' or hill country south of the

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and cover much of the land within the Bavarian province of

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in southern

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. To the north it is bordered by the Gäuboden region and the

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; to the south by

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, to the east by the

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and to the west by the

Franconian Jura The Franconian Jura ( , , or ) is an upland in Franconia, Bavaria, Germany. Located between two rivers, the Danube in the south and the Main in the north, its peaks reach elevations of up to and it has an area of some 7053.8 km2. Emil Mey ...

(''Fränkische Alb''). In the western part of the Lower Bavarian Hills lies the

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, the world's largest hop-growing region.Bentley, James; Catling, Christopher; & Locke, Tim (1994). ''Munich and Bavaria''. Chicago: Passport Books. It belongs to two of officially defined natural regions in Germany: the eponymous Lower Bavarian hills and the Isar-Inn Gravel Beds (''Isar-Inn-Schotterplatten'') and is sub-divided into the Danube-Isar Hills (''Donau-Isar-Hügelland'') and the Isar-Inn Upland (''Isar-Inn-Hügelland'') with the River Isar as the boundary. The hills continue over the border into Austria as the Upper Austrian Hills (''Oberösterreichischen Hügelland''). The biggest cities in the lower Bavarian Upland are

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and

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. Other larger centres of population are

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, Pfarrkirchen,

Eggenfelden Eggenfelden (; Central Bavarian: ''Eggenfejdn'') is a municipality in the district of Rottal-Inn in Bavaria, Germany. Geography Geographical location Eggenfelden is located in the valley of the Rott (Inn, Neuhaus am Inn), Rott at the intersecti ...

, Vilsbiburg, Bad Griesbach im Rottal, Ortenburg, Triftern, Rottenburg an der Laaber and

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. The Lower Bavarian Spa Triangle (''Niederbayerisches Bäderdreieck'') is of particularly importance for tourism.

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*Ulrich Pietrusky, Donatus Moosauer, Günther Michler: ''Niederbayern – im Fluge neu entdeckt''. Verlag Morsak, Grafenau, 2. Aufl. 1982 {{coord, 48.6244, N, 12.3328, E, source:wikidata-and-enwiki-cat-tree_region:DE, display=title Regions of Bavaria Geography of Bavaria Lower Bavaria Natural regions of Germany