The Highlands, together with the Waschberg Zone and Lower Austria Inselberg threshold, form the South-Moravian Carpathians.

The Highlands have an area of 81 square kilometres (31 sq mi) and an average height of 263.4 metres (864 ft).

To the east is the mountainous region between the Thaya and Včelínek, also from the Lower Morava Valley.

To the southeast is the March Field, and to the southwest a ridge in Austria in the Waschberg Zone which forms the western border of the Thaya valley.

Most of the Highlands are, since 1976, part of the large nature reserve Pálava Landscape Protected Area and since 1986 registered by UNESCO as biosphere reserve Dolní Morava.