Country ranking for field: terrain 1992

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This entry contains a brief description of the topography.

	World	highest elevation is Mt	. Everest at 8848 meters and lowest depression is the Dead Sea at 392 meters below sea level; greatest ocean depth is the Marianas Trench at 10924 meters
1	Afghanistan	0
2	Palmyra Atoll	low with maximum elevations of about 2 meters
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	Balochistan plateau in west	flat Indus plain in east; mountains in north and northwest;
16	Panama	interior mostly steep rugged mountains and dissected upland plains; coastal areas largely plains and rolling hills
17	Nepal	Terai or flat river plain of the Ganges in south central hill region rugged Himalayas in north
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	Moldavia on the east by the Carpathian Mountains and separated from the	central Transylvanian Basin is separated from the plain of
29	Russia	broad plain with low hills west of Urals; vast coniferous forest and tundra in Siberia; uplands and mountains along southern border regions
30	Rwanda	mostly grassy uplands and hills; mountains in west
31	Netherlands Antilles	generally hilly volcanic interiors
32	Navassa Island	raised coral and limestone plateau flat to undulating; ringed by vertical white cliffs
33	Saint Helena	rugged volcanic; small scattered plateaus and plains
34	Malta	mostly low rocky flat to dissected plains; many coastal cliffs
35	Lesotho	mostly highland with some plateaus hills and mountains
36	Liberia	mostly flat to rolling coastal plains rising to rolling plateau and low mountains in northeast
37	Libya	mostly barren flat to undulating plains plateaus depressions
38	Liechtenstein	mostly mountainous
39	Lithuania	lowland many scattered small lakes fertile soil
40	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
41	Macau	generally flat
42	Macedonia	mountainous territory covered with deep basins and valleys; there are three large lakes each divided by a frontier line
43	Madagascar	narrow coastal plain high plateau and mountains in center
44	Malawi	narrow elongated plateau with rolling plains rounded hills some mountains
45	Malaysia	coastal plains rising to hills and mountains
46	Maldives	flat with elevations only as high as 2	.5 meters
47	Mali	mostly flat to rolling northern plains covered by sand; savanna in south rugged hills in northeast
48	Marshall Islands	low coral limestone and sand islands
49	Nauru	sandy beach rises to fertile ring around raised coral reefs with phosphate plateau in center
50	Martinique	mountainous with indented coastline; dormant volcano
51	Mauritania	mostly barren flat plains of the Sahara; some central hills
52	Mauritius	small coastal plain rising to discontinuous mountains encircling central plateau
53	Mayotte	generally undulating with ancient volcanic peaks deep ravines
54	Mexico	high rugged mountains low coastal plains high plateaus and desert
55	Midway Islands	low nearly level
56	Moldova	rolling steppe gradual slope south to Black Sea
57	Monaco	hilly rugged rocky
58	Mongolia	vast semidesert and desert plains; mountains in west and southwest; Gobi Desert in southeast
59	Montserrat	volcanic islands mostly mountainous with small coastal lowland
60	Morocco	mostly mountains with rich coastal plains
61	Mozambique	mostly coastal lowlands uplands in center high plateaus in northwest mountains in west
62	Myanmar	central lowlands ringed by steep rugged highlands
63	Namibia	mostly high plateau; Namib Desert along coast; Kalahari Desert in east
64	Réunion	mostly rugged and mountainous; fertile lowlands along coast
65	Saint Kitts and Nevis	volcanic with mountainous interiors
66	Latvia	low plain
67	United Arab Emirates	flat barren coastal plain merging into rolling sand dunes of vast desert waste- land; mountains in east
68	Togo	gently rolling savanna in north; central hills; southern plateau; low coastal plain with extensive lagoons and marshes
69	Tokelau	coral atolls enclosing large lagoons
70	Tonga	most islands have limestone base formed from uplifted coral formation; others have limestone overlying volcanic base
71	Trinidad and Tobago	mostly plains with some hills and low mountains
72	Tromelin Island	sandy
73	Tunisia	mountains in north; hot dry central plain; semiarid south merges into the Sahara
74	Turkey	mostly mountains; narrow coastal plain; high central plateau
75	Turkmenistan	flat-to-rolling sandy desert with dunes; borders Caspian Sea in west
76	Turks and Caicos Islands	low flat limestone; extensive marshes and mangrove swamps
77	Tuvalu	very low-lying and narrow coral atolls
78	U.S. Virgin Islands	mostly hilly to rugged and mountainous with little level land
79	Uganda	mostly plateau with rim of mountains
80	Ukraine	most of Ukraine consists of fertile plains
81	United Kingdom	mostly rugged hills and low mountains; level to rolling plains in east and southeast
82	The Gambia	flood plain of the Gambia River flanked by some low hills
83	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
84	Uruguay	mostly rolling plains and low hills; fertile coastal lowland
85	Sea in west	mostly flat-to-rolling sandy desert with dunes; Fergana valley in east surrounded by mountainous Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan; shrinking Aral
86	Vanuatu	mostly mountains of volcanic origin; narrow coastal plains
87	Venezuela	Andes mountains and Maracaibo lowlands in northwest; central plains
88	Vietnam	low flat delta in south and north; central highlands; hilly mountainous in far north and northwest
89	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
90	Wallis and Futuna	volcanic origin; low hills
91	West Bank	mostly rugged dissected upland some vegetation in west but barren in east
92	Western Sahara	mostly low flat desert with large areas of rocky or sandy surfaces rising to small mountains in south and northeast
93	Western Samoa	narrow coastal plain with volcanic rocky rugged mountains in interior
94	Yemen	narrow coastal plain backed by flat-topped hills and rugged mountains; dissected upland desert plains in center slope into the desert interior of the Arabian Peninsula
95	Zaire	vast central basin is a low-lying plateau; mountains in east
96	Zambia	mostly high plateau with some hills and mountains
97	The Netherlands	mostly coastal lowland and reclaimed land
98	The Bahamas	long flat coral formations with some low rounded hills
99	Saint Lucia	volcanic and mountainous with some broad fertile valleys
100	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
101	Vincent	volcanic mountainous; Soufriere volcano on the island of Saint
102	Saint-Pierre and Miquelon	mostly barren rock
103	San Marino	rugged mountains
104	Saudi Arabia	mostly uninhabited sandy desert
105	Senegal	generally low rolling plains rising to foothills in southeast
106	Serbia and Montenegro	extremely varied; to the north rich fertile plains; to the east limestone ranges and basins; to the southeast ancient mountain and hills; to the southwest extremely high shoreline with no islands off the coast; home of largest lake in former Yugoslavia Lake Scutari
107	Seychelles	Mahe Group is granitic narrow coastal strip rocky hilly; others are coral flat elevated reefs
108	Sierra Leone	coastal belt of mangrove swamps wooded hill country upland plateau mountains in east
109	Singapore	lowland; gently undulating central plateau contains water catchment area and nature preserve
110	Slovenia	a short coastal strip on the Adriatic an alpine mountain region adjacent to Italy mixed mountain and valleys with numerous rivers to the east
111	Solomon Islands	mostly rugged mountains with some low coral atolls
112	Somalia	mostly flat to undulating plateau rising to hills in north
113	South Africa	vast interior plateau rimmed by rugged hills and narrow coastal plain
114	South Korea	mostly hills and mountains; wide coastal plains in west and south
115	Thailand	central plain; eastern plateau
116	Pyrenees in north	large flat to dissected plateau surrounded by rugged hills;
117	Spratly Islands	flat
118	Sri Lanka	mostly low flat to rolling plain; mountains in south-central interior
119	Sudan	generally flat featureless plain; mountains in east and west
120	Suriname	mostly rolling hills; narrow coastal plain with swamps
121	Svalbard	wild rugged mountains; much of high land ice covered; west coast clear of ice about half the year; fjords along west and north coasts
122	Swaziland	mostly mountains and hills; some moderately sloping plains
123	Sweden	mostly flat or gently rolling lowlands; mountains in west
124	Switzerland	mostly mountains
125	Syria	primarily semiarid and desert plateau; narrow coastal plain; mountains in west
126	São Tomé and Príncipe	volcanic mountainous
127	Taiwan	eastern two-thirds mostly rugged mountains; flat to gently rolling plains in west
128	Valley in north Kafirnigan and Vakhsh Valleys in southeast	Pamir and Alay Mountains dominate landscape; western Fergana
129	Tanzania	plains along coast; central plateau; highlands in north south
130	Lebanon	narrow coastal plain; Al Biqa`
131	Laos	mostly rugged mountains; some plains and plateaus
132	Albania	mostly mountains and hills; small plains along coast
133	China	mostly mountains high plateaus deserts in west; plains deltas and hills in east
134	British Virgin Islands	coral islands relatively flat; volcanic islands steep hilly
135	Brunei	flat coastal plain rises to mountains in east; hilly lowland in west
136	Bulgaria	mostly mountains with lowlands in north and south
137	Burkina Faso	mostly flat to dissected undulating plains; hills in west and southeast
138	Burundi	mostly rolling to hilly highland; some plains
139	Cabo Verde	steep rugged rocky volcanic
140	Cambodia	mostly low flat plains; mountains in southwest and north
141	Cameroon	diverse with coastal plain in southwest dissected plateau in center mountains in west plains in north
142	Canada	mostly plains with mountains in west and lowlands in southeast
143	Cayman Islands	low-lying limestone base surrounded by coral reefs
144	Central African Republic	vast flat to rolling monotonous plateau; scattered hills in northeast and southwest
145	Chad	broad arid plains in center desert in north mountains in northwest lowlands in south
146	Chile	low coastal mountains; fertile central valley; rugged Andes in east
147	Christmas Island	steep cliffs along coast rise abruptly to central plateau
148	Brazil	mostly flat to rolling lowlands in north; some plains hills mountains and narrow coastal belt
149	Clipperton Island	coral atoll
150	Cocos Islands	flat low-lying coral atolls
151	Colombia	flat coastal lowlands central highlands high Andes mountains eastern lowland plains
152	Comoros	volcanic islands interiors vary from steep mountains to low hills
153	Congo	coastal plain southern basin central plateau northern basin
154	Cook Islands	low coral atolls in north; volcanic hilly islands in south
155	Coral Sea Islands	sand and coral reefs and islands
156	Costa Rica	coastal plains separated by rugged mountains
157	Croatia	geographically diverse; flat plains along Hungarian border low mountains and highlands near Adriatic coast coastline and islands
158	Cuba	mostly flat to rolling plains with rugged hills and mountains in the southeast
159	Cyprus	central plain with mountains to north and south
160	Côte d'Ivoire	mostly flat to undulating plains; mountains in northwest
161	Denmark	low and flat to gently rolling plains
162	British Indian Ocean Territory	flat and low
163	Bouvet Island	volcanic; maximum elevation about 800 meters; coast is mostly inacessible
164	Dominica	rugged mountains of volcanic origin
165	Australia	mostly low plateau with deserts; fertile plain in southeast
166	Algeria	mostly high plateau and desert; some mountains; narrow discontinuous coastal plain
167	American Samoa	five volcanic islands with rugged peaks and limited coastal plains two coral atolls
168	Andorra	rugged mountains dissected by narrow valleys
169	Angola	narrow coastal plain rises abruptly to vast interior plateau
170	Anguilla	flat and low-lying island of coral and limestone
171	Land Wilkes Land the Antarctic Peninsula area and Ross Island on McMurdo	about 98% thick continental ice sheet and 2% barren rock with average elevations between 2000 and 4000 meters; mountain ranges up to 4897 meters high; ice-free coastal areas include parts of southern Victoria
172	Antigua and Barbuda	mostly low-lying limestone and coral islands with some higher volcanic areas
173	Arctic Ocean	central surface covered by a perennial drifting polar icepack that 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
174	Argentina	rich plains of the Pampas in northern half flat to rolling plateau of Patagonia in south rugged Andes along western border
175	Armenia	high Armenian Plateau with mountain; little forest land; fast flowing rivers; good soil in Aras River valley
176	Aruba	flat with a few hills; scant vegetation
177	Ashmore and Cartier Islands	low with sand and coral
178	Strait and Baltic Sea from October to June; clockwise warm water gyre	surface usually covered with sea ice in Labrador Sea Denmark
179	Austria	mostly mountains with Alps in west and south; mostly flat with gentle slopes along eastern and northern margins
180	Botswana	predominately flat to gently rolling tableland; Kalahari Desert in southwest
181	Azerbaijan	large flat Kura Lowland
182	Bahrain	mostly low desert plain rising gently to low central escarpment
183	Baker Island	low nearly level coral island surrounded by a narrow fringing reef
184	Bangladesh	mostly flat alluvial plain; hilly in southeast
185	Barbados	relatively flat; rises gently to central highland region
186	Bassas da India	a volcanic rock 2	.4 m high
187	Belarus	generally flat and contains much marshland
188	Belgium	flat coastal plains in northwest central rolling hills rugged mountains of Ardennes Forest in southeast
189	Belize	flat swampy coastal plain; low mountains in south
190	Benin	mostly flat to undulating plain; some hills and low mountains
191	Bermuda	low hills separated by fertile depressions
192	Bhutan	mostly mountainous with some fertile valleys and savanna
193	Bolivia	rugged Andes Mountains with a highland plateau
194	Bosnia and Herzegovina	mountains and valleys
195	Djibouti	coastal plain and plateau separated by central mountains
196	Dominican Republic	rugged highlands and mountains with fertile valleys interspersed
197	Kyrgyzstan	peaks of Tien Shan rise to 7000 meters and associated valleys and basins encompass entire nation
198	Isle of Man	hills in north and south bisected by central valley
199	McDonald Islands - small and rocky	Heard Island - bleak and mountainous with an extinct volcano;
200	Holy See	low hill
201	Honduras	mostly mountains in interior narrow coastal plains
202	Hong Kong	hilly to mountainous with steep slopes; lowlands in north
203	Howland Island	low-lying nearly level sandy coral island surrounded by a narrow fringing reef; depressed central area
204	Hungary	mostly flat to rolling plains
205	Iceland	mostly plateau interspersed with mountain peaks icefields; coast deeply indented by bays and fiords
206	India	upland plain
207	Indian Ocean	surface dominated by counterclockwise gyre
208	Indonesia	mostly coastal lowlands; larger islands have interior mountains
209	Iran	rugged mountainous rim; high central basin with deserts mountains; small discontinuous plains along both coasts
210	Iraq	mostly broad plains; reedy marshes in southeast; mountains along borders with Iran and Turkey
211	Ireland	mostly level to rolling interior plain surrounded by rugged hills and low mountains; sea cliffs on west coast
212	Israel	Negev desert in the south; low coastal plain; central mountains; Jordan Rift Valley
213	Guyana	mostly rolling highlands; low coastal plain; savanna in south
214	Italy	mostly rugged and mountainous; some plains coastal lowlands
215	Jamaica	mostly mountains with narrow discontinuous coastal plain
216	Jan Mayen	volcanic island partly covered by glaciers; Beerenberg is the highest peak with an elevation of 2277 meters
217	Japan	mostly rugged and mountainous
218	Jarvis Island	sandy coral island surrounded by a narrow fringing reef
219	Jersey	gently rolling plain with low rugged hills along north coast
220	Johnston Atoll	mostly flat with a maximum elevation of 4 meters
221	Rift Valley separates East and West Banks of the Jordan River	mostly desert plateau in east highland area in west; Great
222	Juan de Nova Island	undetermined
223	Kazakhstan	extends from the Volga to the Altai mountains and from the plains in western Siberia to oasis and desert in Central Asia
224	Valley; fertile plateau in west	low plains rise to central highlands bisected by Great Rift
225	Kingman Reef	low and nearly level with a maximum elevation of about 1 meter
226	Kiribati	mostly low-lying coral atolls surrounded by extensive reefs
227	Kuwait	flat to slightly undulating desert plain
228	Haiti	mostly rough and mountainous
229	Guinea	generally flat coastal plain hilly to mountainous interior
230	Ecuador	coastal plain
231	French Polynesia	mixture of rugged high islands and low islands with reefs
232	Egypt	vast desert plateau interrupted by Nile valley and delta
233	El Salvador	mostly mountains with narrow coastal belt and central plateau
234	Equatorial Guinea	coastal plains rise to interior hills; islands are volcanic
235	Estonia	marshy lowlands
236	Valley	high plateau with central mountain range divided by Great Rift
237	Europa Island	NA
238	Falkland Islands	rocky hilly mountainous with some boggy undulating plains
239	Faroe Islands	rugged rocky some low peaks; cliffs along most of coast
240	Federated States of Micronesia	islands vary geologically from high mountainous islands to low coral atolls; volcanic outcroppings on Pohnpei Kosrae and Truk
241	Fiji	mostly mountains of volcanic origin
242	Finland	mostly low flat to rolling plains interspersed with lakes and low hills
243	France	mostly flat plains or gently rolling hills in north and west; remainder is mountainous especially Pyrenees in south Alps in east
244	French Guiana	low-lying coastal plains rising to hills and small mountains
245	French Southern and Antarctic Lands	volcanic
246	Guinea-Bissau	mostly low coastal plain rising to savanna in east
247	Gabon	narrow coastal plain; hilly interior; savanna in east and south
248	Gaza Strip	flat to rolling sand- and dune- covered coastal plain
249	Black Sea in the west; Kura River Basin in the east; good soils in river valley flood plains foothills of Colchis lowland	largely mountainous with Great Caucasus Mountains in the north and Lesser Caucasus Mountains in the south; Colchis lowland opens to the
250	Germany	lowlands in north uplands in center Bavarian Alps in south
251	Ghana	mostly low plains with dissected plateau in south-central area
252	Gibraltar	a narrow coastal lowland borders The Rock
253	Glorioso Islands	undetermined
254	Greece	mostly mountains with ranges extending into sea as peninsulas or chains of islands
255	Greenland	flat to gradually sloping icecap covers all but a narrow mountainous barren rocky coast
256	Grenada	volcanic in origin with central mountains
257	Grand-Terre is low limestone formation	Basse-Terre is volcanic in origin with interior mountains;
258	Guam	volcanic origin surrounded by coral reefs; relatively flat coraline limestone plateau
259	Guatemala	mostly mountains with narrow coastal plains and rolling limestone plateau
260	Guernsey	mostly level with low hills in southwest
261	Zimbabwe	mostly high plateau with higher central plateau

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