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Geography's quiet underachievers, content to sit while everyone else climbs.
means Land at low elevation, especially flat ground near sea level or along rivers.
from Plain Old English logic: low land, said often enough to fuse into one word by the 1500s, soon a proper-noun stamp on Scotland's gentler half.
Scottish splitLowlands versus Highlands divided clans, accents, and history.
Below seaSome Dutch lowlands sit meters under the waterline.
Fertile flexFlat, watered ground makes lowlands prime farmland.