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( Southern Uplands)
The Southern Uplands is the southernmost of Scotland's three major geographic areas (the others being the Central Belt and the Highlands). They lie South of the Southern Uplands fault line that runs from Girvan on the Ayrshire coast in the West to Dunbar in East Lothian on the North Sea coast. The Southern Uplands is the least populated of the 3 major Scottish geographic areas. The Southern Uplands are a range of hills almost 200 kilometres (125 miles) long, interspersed with broad valleys. The Southern Uplands includes among others the cross border Cheviot Hills shared with the Pennines that form the "backbone of England". The Southern Uplands and Pennines are of a similar size both in terms of area covered and height. Although the summits are not as high as many in the Scottish Highlands (Ben Nevis and Ben Macdui both rise 1300 m above sea level) nor other famous mountain regions, the Southern Uplands is remote and mountainous, containing about 120 marilyns. Some of the more notable peaks in the Southern Uplands include-
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