
Rhine Valley (German: ''Rheintal'' ) is the valley, or any section of it, of the river
Rhine
The Rhine ( ) is one of the List of rivers of Europe, major rivers in Europe. The river begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the southeastern Swiss Alps. It forms part of the Swiss-Liechtenstein border, then part of the Austria–Swit ...
in Europe.
Particular valleys of the Rhine or any of its sections:
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Alpine Rhine Valley
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Chur Rhine Valley (or Grisonian Rhine Valley; , or sometimes ''Bündner Rheintal'') between
Reichenau and
Sargans, East Switzerland
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St. Gallen Rhine Valley (also: St. Gall Rhine Valley; , however commonly known as ''Rheintal'') between
Sargans and
Lake Constance
Lake Constance (, ) refers to three bodies of water on the Rhine at the northern foot of the Alps: Upper Lake Constance (''Obersee''), Lower Lake Constance (''Untersee''), and a connecting stretch of the Rhine, called the Seerhein (). These ...
, East Switzerland
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High Rhine
High Rhine (, ; kilometres 0 to 167 of the Rhine) is the section of the Rhine between Lake Constance () and the city of Basel, flowing in a general east-to-west direction and forming mostly the Germany–Switzerland border. It is the first of fo ...
Valley
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Upper Rhine Valley (or Upper Rhine Plain, also known as Rhine Rift Valley; ), a
rift valley between
Basel
Basel ( ; ), also known as Basle ( ), ; ; ; . is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the river Rhine (at the transition from the High Rhine, High to the Upper Rhine). Basel is Switzerland's List of cities in Switzerland, third-most-populo ...
and
Bingen am Rhein
Bingen am Rhein () is a town in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
The settlement's original name was Bingium, a Celtic languages, Celtic word that may have meant "hole in the rock", a description of the shoal behind the ...
, Germany
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Middle Rhine
Middle Rhine (, ; kilometres 529 to 660 of the Rhine) is the section of the Rhine between Bingen and Bonn in Germany. It flows through the Rhine Gorge (), a formation created by erosion, which happened at about the same rate as an uplift i ...
Valley ()
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Lower Rhine
Lower Rhine (, ; kilometres 660 to 1,033 of the Rhine) is the section of the Rhine between Bonn in Germany and the North Sea at Hook of Holland in the Netherlands, including the '' Nederrijn'' () within the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta; alternat ...
Valley
See also
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Oberrheintal (translation: "Upper Rhine Valley", but not to be confused with the
Upper Rhine Valley), a former district in the Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland, part of the ''St. Gallen Rhine Valley''
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Unterrheintal (translation: "Lower Rhine Valley"), a former district in the Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland, part of the ''St. Gallen Rhine Valley''
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Notes
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