Coastal Regions

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The parts of Frisia that aren’t farmland are generally bogs, beaches, and tidal flats. This includes the Wadden Islands (or, as this blog prefers, the “Frisian Islands”), which are a chain of sea-battered swaths of sand bars and salt marshes stretching from Northern Holland to Southern Denmark. The islands are divided according to their nearby mainland—the West Frisian islands border the Netherlands, the East Frisian islands border the German state of Lower Saxony, and the North Frisian islands border the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. The East and West Frisian islands are essentially large sand dunes, with scattered patches of grass and thickets of heath. The North Frisian Islands run along northern Germany and Denmark. Although still sandy, they often have cores of geestland and rocky glacial deposits, which give them more substance.