The Sieben Berge ridge is located in the east of the Leine Uplands, a northern part of the Lower Saxon Hills.

The Sieben Berge are surrounded by the hills of the Hildesheim Forest to the northeast, the Sauberge to the east-northeast, the Vorberge to the east and the Sackwald to the southeast.

There are no roads through the unpopulated Sieben Berge, but it is crossed by several forest tracks and walking trails (including the roughly 15 km long Snow White Path, which was named in 2002), on which the wooded terrain can be explored.

The Sieben Berge gained fame from the tale of Snow White, written in the 19th century by the Brothers Grimm.

The Sieben Berge, whose highest hill is the Hohe Tafel (395 m above NN), comprise the following elevations as seen from north to south (heights in metres above Normalnull): Other elevations that border on the Sieben Berge are (in order of height): The Nußberg, which is found north of the hill range, is sometimes counted - according to various sources - instead of the Himmelberg, which is in the extreme southeast of the ridge, as either the first or seventh hill in the Sieben Berge.