The Palatinate Forest (German: Pfälzerwald) is the biggest coherent forest of Europe. It lies in southwestern Germany, in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is named after the Palatinate) region, in which it lies. The Palatinate Forest covers 1,771 km². Its highest elevation is the Kalmit, 673 m, near Edenkoben. Together with the northern part of the adjacent Vosges Mountains in France it forms the UNESCO Biosphere reserve Pfälzer Wald-Vosges du Nord. The Rhenish Palatinate (Rheinpfalz, sometimes Lower Palatinate or Niederpfalz) occupies rather more than a quarter of the German Bundesland (federal state) of Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz) and contains the towns of Ludwigshafen, Kaiserslautern, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, Pirmasens, Landau and Speyer. ... Location of Palatinate in Rhineland-Palatinate The Palatinate (German: ), historically also Rhenish Palatinate (Latin: ; German: ), is a region in south-western Germany. ... Edenkoben, a town of Germany, in the Bavarian Palatinate, 6 m. ... Typical landscape in Vosges mountains (Chajoux valley, La Bresse, France) Waterfall in eastern Vosges mountains Glacial lake in Vosges mountains (Lac de Schiessrothried) The Vosges Mountains is a range in eastern France, stretching along the west side of the Rhine valley in a NNE direction, from Belfort to Saverne. ... UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) is a specialized agency of the United Nations established in 1945. ... A biosphere reserve is an international conservation designation given by UNESCO under its Programme on Man and the Biosphere (MAB). ...

Coordinates: 49°17′33″N, 7°52′36″E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...