North European Plain

[citation needed] The Northern European Plains are located also under the Baltic Sea.

[citation needed] Major river-drainage basins include, from west to east: The Ems, Weser, Elbe, Oder, Vistula and this region of Europe is where the Rhine river starts.

The soils surrounding the river basins are thin, making agriculture difficult.

[citation needed] Historically, especially in the Middle Ages and Early modern period, the western section has been known as the Low Countries.

The part in modern-day Poland is called the "Polish Plain" (Polish: Niż Polski or Nizina Polska) and stretches from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathians The extension of the plain into England consists mainly of the flatlands of East Anglia, the Fens and Lincolnshire, where the landscape is in parts strikingly similar to that of the Netherlands.