I have been looking for a suitable map of a section of European terrain on which to fight my campaign; and I found this pair of maps from the SPI board game 'Firefight':
The two maps join together several ways and are huge, about 4ft x 4ft.
I have not gone firm on this map, but it does offer an extensive area with plenty of open going for armour and key features such as river crossings with a few settlements and wooded areas. Played up and down would offer the challenge of an operation split by two river valleys, whereas, playing across the map would have several obstacles that would need to be negotiated.
Lots of food for thought!