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The sandhills, which in some places reach around hundred meters in height (Klever Berg (106 m)) and protrude more than sixty meters above the surrounding
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in the west. This landform element is also called the
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Relief
Lower Rhine Plain
Krefeld
Nijmegen
Rhine
Niers
river terraces
Lower Rhine
Saale glaciation
terminal moraine
glaciers
glacial termini
Groesbeek
Kranenburg
Kleve
51°38′30″N 6°21′30″E / 51.64167°N 6.35833°E / 51.64167; 6.35833

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