The Bucklige Welt is a hill country area on the eastern edge of the Alps.

Its name, which means something like 'hilly world', is due to the very large number of hills and mountains which are known by the locals as Buckln.

In the southwest the Bucklige Welt is bounded by the Wechsel massif and in the west by the Semmering region.

To the east the Rosalia Mountains form the boundary, to the south of which the Bucklige Welt faces Oberpullendorf in the Central Burgenland Bay.

There was no glaciation during the ice age in the area of the Bucklige Welt because of its low elevation.