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Highlands or uplands are any

mountainous region or elevated
mountainous plateau. Generally speaking,
upland (or uplands) refers to ranges of
hills,[1] typically up to 500–600 m.
Highland (or highlands) is usually reserved
for ranges of low mountains.
Highlands internationally
Probably the best-known highlands in the
anglosphere are the Scottish Highlands in
northern Scotland, the mountainous region
north and west of the Highland Boundary
Fault. The Highland council area is a local
government area in the Scottish Highlands
and Britain's largest local government
area.

Many countries have areas that are

officially or unofficially referred to as
highlands. Other than Scotland, these
include parts of Tibet,[2] Ethiopia, Canada,
Kenya, Eritrea, Yemen, Ghana, Nigeria,
Papua New Guinea, Syria, and Cantabria.[3]
Synonymous terms used in other countries
include high country, used in New Zealand,
New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and
Southern Queensland in Australia, and
parts of the United States (notably
Western North Carolina), highveld, used in
South Africa and Roof of the World,[4] used
for Tibet.

Glen Affric in the Scottish Highlands.

The highlands in Australia are often above
the elevation of 500 meters. These areas
often receive snowfalls through winter.
Most of the highlands lead up to large
alpine or sub-alpine mountainous regions
such as the Australian Alps, Snowy
Mountains, Great Dividing Range, Northern
Tablelands and Blue Mountains. The most
mountainous region of Tasmania is the
Central Highlands area, which covers most
of the central-western parts of the state.
Many of these areas are highly elevated
alpine regions.

The Ozarks cover nearly 47,000 square

miles (120,000 km2), making it the most
extensive highland region between the
Appalachians and Rockies. This region
contains some of the oldest rocks in North
America.

A spine of mountains runs the length of

the island of New Guinea, forming a
populous highlands region.

The Central Highlands of Sri Lanka these

are rain forests, where the elevation
reaches 2,500 meters (8,200 ft) above sea
level. The Sri Lanka montane rain forests
represent the montane and submontane
moist forests above 1,000 meters (3,300
ft) in the central highlands and in the
Knuckles mountain range. Half of Sri
Lanka's endemic flowering plants and 51
percent of the endemic vertebrates are
restricted to this ecoregion.

The highlands of Iceland cover about 40%

of the country and are mostly inhospitable
to humans. They are generally considered
to be any land above 500 meters.

Additionally, the mountainous natural

region of the Thai highlands is found in
Northern Thailand.

The Cameron Highlands is a highland area

and hill station in Northern Malaysia.
Shillong in India in the state of Meghalaya
is a hill station which is surrounded by
highlands. Officers of the British Raj
referred to Shillong as "The Scotland of the
East".[5]

Other planets
Highland continents – or terrae – are
areas of topographically unstable terrain,
with high peaks and valleys. They
resemble highlands on Earth, but the term
is applied to much larger areas on other
planets. They can be found on Venus,[6]
Mercury, Mars and the Moon.
See also
Planum
Highlander (disambiguation)

References
1. University of California Museum of
Paleontology (1995 and later), upland ,
UCMP Glossary
2. Dotson, Brandon; Gurung, Kalsang
Norbu; Halkias, Georgios; Myatt, Tim,
eds. (2009). "The Tibetan Gesar Epic
as Oral Literature". Contemporary
Visions in Tibetan Studies:
Proceedings of the First International
Seminar of Young Tibetologists (1st
 ed.). Chicago: Serindia Publications,
Inc. p. 189. ISBN 978-1-932476-45-3.
"... for the highlanders for eastern
Tibet"
3. Ross, Mars; Cooper, H. Stonehewer
(1885). "The Highlands of Cantabria;
or, Three days from England". London:
S.Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington .:
491. OL 20620939M .
4. Alec, Le Sueur (2003-01-01). The hotel
on the roof of the world : from Miss
Tibet to Shangri-La. RDR Books.
ISBN 1571431012. OCLC 845721671 .
5. Rao, Sachin. "Travel: Shillong, India -
'Scotland of the east' " .
 www.scotsman.com. Retrieved
19 February 2017.
6. "The Highlands of Venus" .
HyperPhysics. Retrieved 18 July 2014.

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