Country ranking for field: terrain 1989

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This entry contains a brief description of the topography.

	World	highest elevation is Mt	. Everest at 8848 meters and lowest elevation is the Dead Sea at 392 meters below sea level; greatest ocean depth is the Marianas Trench at 10924 meters
1	Afghanistan	0
2	Pakistan	flat Indus plain in east; mountains in north and northwest; Baluchistan plateau in west
3	New Caledonia	coastal plains with interior mountains
4	New Zealand	predominately mountainous with some large coastal plains
5	Nicaragua	extensive Atlantic coastal plains rising to central interior mountains; narrow Pacific coastal plain interrupted by volcanoes
6	Niger	predominately desert plains and sand dunes; flat to rolling plains in south; hills in north
7	Nigeria	southern lowlands merge into central hills and plateaus; mountains in southeast plains in north
8	Niue	steep limestone cliffs along coast central plateau
9	Norfolk Island	volcanic formation with mostly rolling plains
10	North Korea	mostly hills and mountains separated by deep narrow valleys; coastal plains wide in west discontinuous in east
11	Northern Mariana Islands	southern islands are limestone with level terraces and fringing coral reefs; northern islands are volcanic; highest elevation is 471 meters
12	Norway	glaciated; mostly high plateaus and rugged mountains broken by fertile valleys; small scattered plains; coastline deeply indented by fjords; arctic tundra in north
13	Oman	vast central desert plain rugged mountains in north and south
14	Pacific Ocean	surface in the northern Pacific dominated by a clockwise warm water gyre
15	Palmyra Atoll	low with maximum elevations of about 2 meters
16	Nepal	Tarai or flat river plain of the Ganges in south central hill region rugged Himalayas in north
17	Panama	interior mostly steep rugged mountains and dissected upland plains; coastal areas largely plains and rolling hills
18	Papua New Guinea	mostly mountains with coastal lowlands and rolling foothills
19	Paracel Islands	undetermined
20	Paraguay	grassy plains and wooded hills east of Rio Paraguay; Gran Chaco region west of Rio Paraguay mostly low marshy plain near the river and dry forest and thorny scrub elsewhere
21	Peru	western coastal plain
22	Philippines	mostly mountains with narrow to extensive coastal lowlands
23	Pitcairn Islands	rugged volcanic formation; rocky coastline with cliffs
24	Poland	mostly flat plain mountains along southern border
25	Portugal	mountainous north of the Tagus rolling plains in south
26	Puerto Rico	mostly mountains with coastal plain belt in north; mountains precipitous to sea on west coast
27	Qatar	mostly flat and barren desert covered with loose sand and gravel
28	Romania	mostly flat to undulating plains; some hills and mountains
29	Netherlands Antilles	generally hilly volcanic interiors
30	Navassa Island	raised coral and limestone plateau flat to undulating; ringed by vertical white cliffs
31	Réunion	mostly rugged and mountainous; fertile lowlands along coast
32	Marshall Islands	low coral limestone and sand islands
33	Lesotho	mostly highland with some plateaus hills and mountains
34	Liberia	mostly flat to rolling coastal plains rising to rolling plateau and low mountains in northeast
35	Libya	mostly barren flat to undulating plains plateaus depressions
36	Liechtenstein	mostly mountainous
37	Luxembourg	mostly gently rolling uplands with broad shallow valleys; uplands to slightly mountainous in the north; steep slope down to Moselle floodplain in the southeast
38	Macau	generally flat
39	Madagascar	narrow coastal plain high plateau and mountains in center
40	Malawi	narrow elongated plateau with rolling plains rounded hills some mountains
41	Malaysia	coastal plains rising to hills and mountains
42	Maldives	flat with elevations only as high as 2	.5 meters
43	Mali	mostly flat to rolling northern plains covered by sand; savanna in south rugged hills in northeast
44	Malta	mostly low rocky flat to dissected plains; many coastal cliffs
45	Martinique	mountainous with indented coastline; dormant volcano
46	Nauru	sandy beach rises to fertile ring around raised coral reefs with phosphate plateau in center
47	Mauritania	mostly barren flat plains of the Sahara; some central hills
48	Mauritius	small coastal plain rising to discontinuous mountains encircling central plateau
49	Mayotte	generally undulating with ancient volcanic peaks deep ravines
50	Mexico	mostly high rugged mountains with low coastal plains and high plateaus
51	Midway Islands	low nearly level
52	Monaco	hilly rugged rocky
53	Mongolia	vast semidesert and desert plains; mountains in west and southwest; Gobi Desert in southeast
54	Montserrat	volcanic islands mostly mountainous with small coastal lowland
55	Morocco	mostly mountains with rich coastal plains
56	Mozambique	mostly coastal lowlands uplands in center high plateaus in northwest mountains in west
57	Myanmar	central lowlands ringed by steep rugged highlands
58	Namibia	mostly high plateau; Namib Desert along coast; Kalahari Desert in east
59	Rwanda	mostly grassy uplands and hills; mountains in west
60	Saint Helena	rugged volcanic; small scattered plateaus and plains
61	Laos	mostly rugged mountains; some plains and plateaus
62	United Kingdom	mostly rugged hills and low mountains; level to rolling plains in east and southeast
63	Togo	gently rolling savanna in north; central hills; southern plateau; low coastal plain with extensive lagoons and marshes
64	Tokelau	coral atolls enclosing large lagoons
65	Tonga	most islands have limestone base formed from uplifted coral formation; others have limestone overlying volcanic base
66	Trinidad and Tobago	mostly plains with some hills and low mountains
67	Tromelin Island	sandy
68	Tunisia	mountains in north; hot dry central plain; semiarid south merges into the Sahara
69	Turkey	mostly mountains; narrow coastal plain; central plateau
70	Turks and Caicos Islands	low flat limestone; extensive marshes and mangrove swamps
71	Tuvalu	very low-lying and narrow coral atolls
72	U.S. Virgin Islands	mostly hilly to rugged and mountainous with little level land
73	Uganda	mostly plateau with rim of mountains
74	United Arab Emirates	flat barren coastal plain merging into rolling sand dunes of vast desert wasteland; mountains in east
75	United States	vast central plain mountains in west hills and low mountains in east; rugged mountains and broad river valleys in Alaska; rugged volcanic topography in Hawaii
76	The Gambia	flood plain of the Gambia River flanked by some low hills
77	Uruguay	mostly rolling plains and low hills; fertile coastal lowland
78	Vanuatu	mostly mountains of volcanic origin; narrow coastal plains
79	Venezuela	Andes mountains and Maracaibo lowlands in northwest; central plains
80	Vietnam	low flat delta in south and north; central highlands; hilly mountainous in far north and northwest
81	Wake Island	atoll of three coral islands built up on an underwater volcano; central lagoon is former crater islands are part of the rim; average elevation less than four meters
82	Wallis and Futuna	volcanic origin; low hills
83	West Bank	mostly rugged dissected upland some vegetation in west but barren in east
84	Western Sahara	mostly low flat desert with large areas of rocky or sandy surfaces rising to small mountains in south and northeast
85	Western Samoa	narrow coastal plain with volcanic rocky rugged mountains in interior
86	Yugoslavia	mostly mountains with large areas of karst topography; plain in north
87	Zaire	vast central basin is a low-lying plateau; mountains in east
88	Zambia	mostly high plateau with some hills and mountains
89	The Netherlands	mostly coastal lowland and reclaimed land
90	The Bahamas	long flat coral formations with some low rounded hills
91	Saint Kitts and Nevis	volcanic with mountainous interiors
92	South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands	most of the islands rising steeply from the sea are rugged and mountainous; South Georgia is largely barren and has steep glacier-covered mountains; the South Sandwich Islands are of volcanic origin with some active volcanoes
93	Saint Lucia	volcanic and mountainous with some broad fertile valleys
94	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	volcanic mountainous; Soufriere volcano on the island of St	. Vincent
95	Saint-Pierre and Miquelon	mostly barren rock
96	San Marino	rugged mountains
97	Saudi Arabia	mostly uninhabited sandy desert
98	Senegal	generally low rolling plains rising to foothills in southeast
99	Seychelles	Mahe Group is granitic narrow coastal strip rocky hilly; others are coral flat elevated reefs
100	Sierra Leone	coastal belt of mangrove swamps wooded hill country upland plateau mountains in east
101	Singapore	lowland; gently undulating central plateau contains water catchment area and nature preserve
102	Solomon Islands	mostly rugged mountains with some low coral atolls
103	Somalia	mostly flat to undulating plateau rising to hills in north
104	South Africa	vast interior plateau rimmed by rugged hills and narrow coastal plain
105	South Korea	mostly hills and mountains; wide coastal plains in west and south
106	Thailand	central plain; eastern plateau
107	Spain	large flat to dissected plateau surrounded by rugged hills; Pyrenees in north
108	Spratly Islands	flat
109	Sri Lanka	mostly low flat to rolling plain; mountains in south-central interior
110	Sudan	generally flat featureless plain; mountains in east and west
111	Suriname	mostly rolling hills; narrow coastal plain with swamps
112	Swaziland	mostly mountains and hills; some moderately sloping plains
113	Sweden	mostly flat or gently rolling lowlands; mountains in west
114	Switzerland	mostly mountains
115	Syria	primarily semiarid and desert plain; narrow coastal plain; mountains in west
116	São Tomé and Príncipe	volcanic mountainous
117	Taiwan	eastern two-thirds mostly rugged mountains; flat to gently rolling plains in west
118	Tanzania	plains along coast; central plateau; highlands in north south
119	Lebanon	narrow coastal plain; Al Biqa
120	Kuwait	flat to slightly undulating desert plain
121	Albania	mostly mountains and hills; small plains along coast
122	China	mostly mountains high plateaus deserts in west; plains deltas and hills in east
123	Brunei	flat coastal plain rises to mountains in east; hilly lowland in west
124	Bulgaria	mostly mountains with lowlands in north and south
125	Burkina Faso	mostly flat to dissected undulating plains; hills in west and southeast
126	Burundi	mostly rolling to hilly highland; some plains
127	Cabo Verde	steep rugged rocky volcanic
128	Cambodia	mostly low flat plains; mountains in southwest and north
129	Cameroon	diverse with coastal plain in southwest dissected plateau in center mountains in west plains in north
130	Canada	mostly plains with mountains in west and lowlands in southeast
131	Cayman Islands	low-lying limestone base surrounded by coral reefs
132	Central African Republic	vast flat to rolling monotonous plateau; scattered hills in northeast and southwest
133	Chad	broad arid plains in center desert in north mountains in northwest lowlands in south
134	Chile	low coastal mountains; fertile central valley; rugged Andes in east
135	Christmas Island	steep cliffs along coast rise abruptly to central plateau
136	British Indian Ocean Territory	flat and low
137	Clipperton Island	coral atoll
138	Cocos Islands	flat low-lying coral atolls
139	Colombia	mixture of flat coastal lowlands plains in east central highlands some high mountains
140	Comoros	volcanic islands interiors vary from steep mountains to low hills
141	Congo	coastal plain southern basin central plateau northern basin
142	Cook Islands	low coral atolls in north; volcanic hilly islands in south
143	Coral Sea Islands	sand and coral reefs and islands
144	Costa Rica	coastal plains separated by rugged mountains
145	Cuba	mostly flat to rolling plains with rugged hills and mountains in the southeast
146	Cyprus	central plain with mountains to north and south
147	Côte d'Ivoire	mostly flat to undulating plains; mountains in northwest
148	Denmark	low and flat to gently rolling plains
149	British Virgin Islands	coral islands relatively flat; volcanic islands steep hilly
150	Brazil	mostly flat to rolling lowlands in north; some plains hills mountains and narrow coastal belt
151	Dominica	rugged mountains of volcanic origin
152	Australia	mostly low plateau with deserts; fertile plain in southeast
153	Algeria	mostly high plateau and desert; some mountains; narrow discontinuous coastal plain
154	American Samoa	five volcanic islands with rugged peaks and limited coastal plains two coral atolls
155	Andorra	rugged mountains dissected by narrow valleys
156	Angola	narrow coastal plain rises abruptly to vast interior plateau
157	Anguilla	flat and low-lying island of coral and limestone
158	Antarctica	about 98% thick continental ice sheet with average elevations between 2000 and 4000 meters; mountain ranges up to 5000 meters high; ice-free coastal areas include parts of southern Victoria Land Wilkes Land and the scientific research areas of Graham Land and Ross Island on McMurdo Sound; glaciers form ice shelves along about half of coastline
159	Antigua and Barbuda	mostly low-lying limestone and coral islands with some higher volcanic areas
160	Arctic Ocean	central surface covered by a perennial drifting polar icepack which averages about 3 meters in thickness although pressure ridges may be three times that size; clockwise drift pattern in the Beaufort Gyral Stream but nearly straight line movement from the New Siberian Islands
161	Argentina	rich plains of the Pampas in northern half flat to rolling plateau of Patagonia in south rugged Andes along western border
162	Aruba	flat with a few hills; scant vegetation
163	Ashmore and Cartier Islands	low with sand and coral
164	Atlantic Ocean	surface usually covered with sea ice in Labrador Sea Denmark Strait and Baltic Sea from October to June; clockwise warm water gyre
165	Austria	mostly mountains with Alps in west and south; mostly flat with gentle slopes along eastern and northern margins
166	Bouvet Island	volcanic; maximum elevation about 800 meters; coast is mostly inacessible
167	Bahrain	mostly low desert plain rising gently to low central escarpment
168	Baker Island	low nearly level coral island surrounded by a narrow fringing reef
169	Bangladesh	mostly flat alluvial plain; hilly in southeast
170	Barbados	relatively flat; rises gently to central highland region
171	Bassas da India	a volcanic rock 2	.4 m high
172	Belgium	flat coastal plains in northwest central rolling hills rugged mountains of Ardennes Forest in southeast
173	Belize	flat swampy coastal plain; low mountains in south
174	Benin	mostly flat to undulating plain; some hills and low mountains
175	Bermuda	low hills separated by fertile depressions
176	Bhutan	mostly mountainous with some fertile valleys and savanna
177	Bolivia	high plateau hills lowland plains
178	Botswana	predominately flat to gently rolling tableland; Kalahari Desert in southwest
179	Djibouti	coastal plain and plateau separated by central mountains
180	Dominican Republic	rugged highlands and mountains with fertile valleys interspersed
181	Kiribati	mostly low-lying coral atolls surrounded by extensive reefs
182	Ireland	mostly level to rolling interior plain surrounded by rugged hills and low mountains
183	Heard Island and McDonald Islands	Heard Island - bleak and mountainous with an extinct volcano; McDonald Islands - small and rocky
184	Holy See	low hill
185	Honduras	mostly mountains in interior narrow coastal plains
186	Hong Kong	hilly to mountainous with steep slopes; lowlands in north
187	Howland Island	low-lying nearly level sandy coral island surrounded by a narrow fringing reef; depressed central area
188	Hungary	mostly flat to rolling plains
189	Iceland	mostly plateau interspersed with mountain peaks icefields; coast deeply indented by bays and fiords
190	India	upland plain
191	Indian Ocean	surface dominated by counterclockwise gyre
192	Indonesia	mostly coastal lowlands; larger islands have interior mountains
193	Iran	rugged mountainous rim; high central basin with deserts mountains; small discontinuous plains along both coasts
194	Iraq	mostly broad plains; reedy marshes in southeast; mountains along borders with Iran and Turkey
195	Isle of Man	hills in north and south bisected by central valley
196	Guyana	mostly rolling highlands; low coastal plain; savanna in south
197	Israel	Negev desert in the south; low coastal plain; central mountains; Jordan Rift Valley
198	Italy	mostly rugged and mountainous; some plains coastal lowlands
199	Jamaica	mostly mountains with narrow discontinuous coastal plain
200	Jan Mayen	volcanic island partly covered by glaciers; Beerenberg is the highest peak with an elevation of 2277
201	Japan	mostly rugged and mountainous
202	Jarvis Island	sandy coral island surrounded by a narrow fringing reef
203	Jersey	gently rolling plain with low rugged hills along north coast
204	Johnston Atoll	mostly flat with a maximum elevation of 4 meters
205	Jordan	mostly high desert plateau in east; Great Rift Valley separates East and West Banks of the Jordan River
206	Juan de Nova Island	undetermined
207	Kenya	low plains rise to central highlands bisected by Great Rift Valley; fertile plateau in west
208	Kingman Reef	low and nearly level with a maximum elevation of about 1 meter
209	Haiti	mostly rough and mountainous
210	Guinea	generally flat coastal plain hilly to mountainous interior
211	Ecuador	coastal plain
212	French Polynesia	mixture of rugged high islands and low islands with reefs
213	Egypt	vast desert plateau interrupted by Nile valley and delta
214	El Salvador	mostly mountains with narrow coastal belt and central plateau
215	Equatorial Guinea	coastal plains rise to interior hills; islands are volcanic
216	Ethiopia	high plateau with central mountain range divided by Great Rift Valley
217	Europa Island	NA
218	Falkland Islands	rocky hilly mountainous with some boggy undulating plains
219	Faroe Islands	rugged rocky some low peaks; cliffs along most of coast
220	Federated States of Micronesia	islands vary geologically from high mountainous islands to low coral atolls; volcanic outcroppings on Pohnpei Kosrae and Truk
221	Fiji	mostly mountains of volcanic origin
222	Finland	mostly low flat to rolling plains interspersed with lakes and low hills
223	France	mostly flat plains or gently rolling hills in north and west; remainder is mountainous especially Pyrenees in south Alps in east
224	French Guiana	low-lying coastal plains rising to hills and small mountains
225	French Southern and Antarctic Lands	volcanic
226	Guinea-Bissau	mostly low coastal plain rising to savanna in east
227	Gabon	narrow coastal plain; hilly interior; savanna in east and south
228	Gaza Strip	flat to rolling sand and dune covered coastal plain
229	Ghana	mostly low plains with dissected plateau in south-central area
230	Gibraltar	a narrow coastal lowland borders The Rock
231	Glorioso Islands	undetermined
232	Greece	mostly mountains with ranges extending into sea as peninsulas or chains of islands
233	Greenland	flat to gradually sloping icecap covers all but a narrow mountainous barren rocky coast
234	Grenada	volcanic in origin with central mountains
235	Guadeloupe	Basse-Terre is volcanic in origin with interior mountains; Grand-Terre is low limestone formation
236	Guam	volcanic origin surrounded by coral reefs; relatively flat coraline limestone plateau
237	Guatemala	mostly mountains with narrow coastal plains and rolling limestone plateau
238	Guernsey	mostly level with low hills in southwest
239	Zimbabwe	mostly high plateau with higher central plateau

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