Belgium generally is a low-lying country, with a broad coastal plain extending from the North Sea and The Netherlands and rising gradually into the Ardennes hills and forests of the southeast, where a maximum height of 2,277 feet (694 metres) is reached at Botrange. The main physical regions are the Ardennes and Ardennes foothills; the Anglo-Belgian Basin to the north comprising the Central (Bas) Plateaus, the plain of Flanders (Vlaanderen), and the Kempenland (Campine); and the intrusion of the Paris Basin on the south known as the Côtes Lorraines