Country ranking for field: terrain 1994

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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 currents in the northern Pacific are dominated by a clockwise warm-water gyre
15	Pakistan	flat Indus plain in east; mountains in north and northwest; Balochistan plateau in west
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	NA
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; sandy beaches along most coastal areas
27	Qatar	mostly flat and barren desert covered with loose sand and gravel
28	Romania	central Transylvanian Basin is separated from the Plain of Moldavia on the east by the Carpathian Mountains and separated from the Walachian Plain on the south by the Transylvanian Alps
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	Réunion	mostly rugged and mountainous; fertile lowlands along coast
32	Netherlands Antilles	generally hilly volcanic interiors
33	Navassa Island	raised coral and limestone plateau flat to undulating; ringed by vertical white cliffs
34	Saint Kitts and Nevis	volcanic with mountainous interiors
35	Malta	mostly low rocky flat to dissected plains; many coastal cliffs
36	Lesotho	mostly highland with some plateaus hills and mountains
37	Liberia	mostly flat to rolling coastal plains rising to rolling plateau and low mountains in northeast
38	Libya	mostly barren flat to undulating plains plateaus depressions
39	Liechtenstein	mostly mountainous
40	Lithuania	lowland many scattered small lakes fertile soil
41	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
42	Macau	generally flat
43	Macedonia	mountainous territory covered with deep basins and valleys; there are three large lakes each divided by a frontier line
44	Madagascar	narrow coastal plain high plateau and mountains in center
45	Malawi	narrow elongated plateau with rolling plains rounded hills some mountains
46	Malaysia	coastal plains rising to hills and mountains
47	Maldives	flat with elevations only as high as 2	.5 meters
48	Mali	mostly flat to rolling northern plains covered by sand; savanna in south rugged hills in northeast
49	Marshall Islands	low coral limestone and sand islands
50	Nauru	sandy beach rises to fertile ring around raised coral reefs with phosphate plateau in center
51	Martinique	mountainous with indented coastline; dormant volcano
52	Mauritania	mostly barren flat plains of the Sahara; some central hills
53	Mauritius	small coastal plain rising to discontinuous mountains encircling central plateau
54	Mayotte	generally undulating with ancient volcanic peaks deep ravines
55	Mexico	high rugged mountains low coastal plains high plateaus and desert
56	Midway Islands	low nearly level
57	Moldova	rolling steppe gradual slope south to Black Sea
58	Monaco	hilly rugged rocky
59	Mongolia	vast semidesert and desert plains; mountains in west and southwest; Gobi Desert in southeast
60	Montserrat	volcanic islands mostly mountainous with small coastal lowland
61	Morocco	mostly mountains with rich coastal plains
62	Mozambique	mostly coastal lowlands uplands in center high plateaus in northwest mountains in west
63	Myanmar	central lowlands ringed by steep rugged highlands
64	Namibia	mostly high plateau; Namib Desert along coast; Kalahari Desert in east
65	Saint Helena	rugged volcanic; small scattered plateaus and plains
66	Saint Lucia	volcanic and mountainous with some broad fertile valleys
67	Latvia	low plain
68	United Arab Emirates	flat barren coastal plain merging into rolling sand dunes of vast desert wasteland; mountains in east
69	Togo	gently rolling savanna in north; central hills; southern plateau; low coastal plain with extensive lagoons and marshes
70	Tokelau	coral atolls enclosing large lagoons
71	Tonga	most islands have limestone base formed from uplifted coral formation; others have limestone overlying volcanic base
72	Trinidad and Tobago	mostly plains with some hills and low mountains
73	Tromelin Island	sandy
74	Tunisia	mountains in north; hot dry central plain; semiarid south merges into the Sahara
75	Turkey	mostly mountains; narrow coastal plain; high central plateau
76	Turkmenistan	flat-to-rolling sandy desert with dunes rising to mountains in the south; low mountains along border with Iran; borders Caspian Sea in west
77	Turks and Caicos Islands	low flat limestone; extensive marshes and mangrove swamps
78	Tuvalu	very low-lying and narrow coral atolls
79	U.S. Virgin Islands	mostly hilly to rugged and mountainous with little level land
80	Uganda	mostly plateau with rim of mountains
81	Ukraine	most of Ukraine consists of fertile plains
82	United Kingdom	mostly rugged hills and low mountains; level to rolling plains in east and southeast
83	The Gambia	flood plain of the Gambia River flanked by some low hills
84	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
85	Uruguay	mostly rolling plains and low hills; fertile coastal lowland
86	Uzbekistan	mostly flat-to-rolling sandy desert with dunes; broad flat intensely irrigated river valleys along course of Amu Darya and Sirdaryo Rivers; Fergana Valley in east surrounded by mountainous Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan; shrinking Aral Sea in west
87	Vanuatu	mostly mountains of volcanic origin; narrow coastal plains
88	Venezuela	Andes Mountains and Maracaibo Lowlands in northwest; central plains
89	Vietnam	low flat delta in south and north; central highlands; hilly mountainous in far north and northwest
90	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 4 meters
91	Wallis and Futuna	volcanic origin; low hills
92	West Bank	mostly rugged dissected upland some vegetation in west but barren in east
93	Western Sahara	mostly low flat desert with large areas of rocky or sandy surfaces rising to small mountains in south and northeast
94	Western Samoa	narrow coastal plain with volcanic rocky rugged mountains in interior
95	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
96	Zaire	vast central basin is a low-lying plateau; mountains in east
97	Zambia	mostly high plateau with some hills and mountains
98	The Netherlands	mostly coastal lowland and reclaimed land
99	The Bahamas	long flat coral formations with some low rounded hills
100	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	volcanic mountainous; Soufriere volcano on the island of Saint Vincent
101	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
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	Slovakia	rugged mountains in the central and northern part and lowlands in the south
111	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
112	Solomon Islands	mostly rugged mountains with some low coral atolls
113	Somalia	mostly flat to undulating plateau rising to hills in north
114	South Africa	vast interior plateau rimmed by rugged hills and narrow coastal plain
115	South Korea	mostly hills and mountains; wide coastal plains in west and south
116	Thailand	central plain; Khorat plateau in the east; mountains elsewhere
117	Spain	large flat to dissected plateau surrounded by rugged hills; Pyrenees in north
118	Spratly Islands	flat
119	Sri Lanka	mostly low flat to rolling plain; mountains in south-central interior
120	Sudan	generally flat featureless plain; mountains in east and west
121	Suriname	mostly rolling hills; narrow coastal plain with swamps
122	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
123	Swaziland	mostly mountains and hills; some moderately sloping plains
124	Sweden	mostly flat or gently rolling lowlands; mountains in west
125	Switzerland	mostly mountains
126	Syria	primarily semiarid and desert plateau; narrow coastal plain; mountains in west
127	São Tomé and Príncipe	volcanic mountainous
128	Taiwan	eastern two-thirds mostly rugged mountains; flat to gently rolling plains in west
129	Tajikistan	Pamir and Alay Mountains dominate landscape; western Fergana Valley in north Kofarnihon and Vakhsh Valleys in southwest
130	Tanzania	plains along coast; central plateau; highlands in north south
131	Lebanon	narrow coastal plain; Al Biqa'
132	Laos	mostly rugged mountains; some plains and plateaus
133	Albania	mostly mountains and hills; small plains along coast
134	China	mostly mountains high plateaus deserts in west; plains deltas and hills in east
135	British Virgin Islands	coral islands relatively flat; volcanic islands steep hilly
136	Brunei	flat coastal plain rises to mountains in east; hilly lowland in west
137	Bulgaria	mostly mountains with lowlands in north and south
138	Burkina Faso	mostly flat to dissected undulating plains; hills in west and southeast
139	Burundi	mostly rolling to hilly highland; some plains
140	Cabo Verde	steep rugged rocky volcanic
141	Cambodia	mostly low flat plains; mountains in southwest and north
142	Cameroon	diverse with coastal plain in southwest dissected plateau in center mountains in west plains in north
143	Canada	mostly plains with mountains in west and lowlands in southeast
144	Cayman Islands	low-lying limestone base surrounded by coral reefs
145	Central African Republic	vast flat to rolling monotonous plateau; scattered hills in northeast and southwest
146	Chad	broad arid plains in center desert in north mountains in northwest lowlands in south
147	Chile	low coastal mountains; fertile central valley; rugged Andes in east
148	Christmas Island	steep cliffs along coast rise abruptly to central plateau
149	Brazil	mostly flat to rolling lowlands in north; some plains hills mountains and narrow coastal belt
150	Clipperton Island	coral atoll
151	Cocos Islands	flat low-lying coral atolls
152	Colombia	flat coastal lowlands central highlands high Andes Mountains eastern lowland plains
153	Comoros	volcanic islands interiors vary from steep mountains to low hills
154	Congo	coastal plain southern basin central plateau northern basin
155	Cook Islands	low coral atolls in north; volcanic hilly islands in south
156	Coral Sea Islands	sand and coral reefs and islands
157	Costa Rica	coastal plains separated by rugged mountains
158	Croatia	geographically diverse; flat plains along Hungarian border low mountains and highlands near Adriatic coast coastline and islands
159	Cuba	mostly flat to rolling plains with rugged hills and mountains in the southeast
160	Cyprus	central plain with mountains to north and south
161	Czech Republic	two main regions:Bohemia in the west consisting of rolling plains hills and plateaus surrounded by low mountains; and Moravia in the east consisting of very hilly country
162	Côte d'Ivoire	mostly flat to undulating plains; mountains in northwest
163	Denmark	low and flat to gently rolling plains
164	British Indian Ocean Territory	flat and low
165	Bouvet Island	volcanic; maximum elevation about 800 meters; coast is mostly inaccessible
166	Dominica	rugged mountains of volcanic origin
167	Australia	mostly low plateau with deserts; fertile plain in southeast
168	Algeria	mostly high plateau and desert; some mountains; narrow discontinuous coastal plain
169	American Samoa	five volcanic islands with rugged peaks and limited coastal plains two coral atolls
170	Andorra	rugged mountains dissected by narrow valleys
171	Angola	narrow coastal plain rises abruptly to vast interior plateau
172	Anguilla	flat and low-lying island of coral and limestone
173	Antarctica	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 Land Wilkes Land the Antarctic Peninsula area and parts of Ross Island on McMurdo Sound; glaciers form ice shelves along about half of the coastline and floating ice shelves constitute 11% of the area of the continent
174	Antigua and Barbuda	mostly low-lying limestone and coral islands with some higher volcanic areas
175	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
176	Argentina	rich plains of the Pampas in northern half flat to rolling plateau of Patagonia in south rugged Andes along western border
177	Armenia	high Armenian Plateau with mountains; little forest land; fast flowing rivers; good soil in Aras River valley
178	Aruba	flat with a few hills; scant vegetation
179	Ashmore and Cartier Islands	low with sand and coral
180	Atlantic Ocean	surface usually covered with sea ice in Labrador Sea Denmark Strait and Baltic Sea from October to June; clockwise warm water gyre
181	Austria	in the west and south mostly mountains
182	Botswana	predominately flat to gently rolling tableland; Kalahari Desert in southwest
183	Azerbaijan	large flat Kur-Araz Lowland
184	Bahrain	mostly low desert plain rising gently to low central escarpment
185	Baker Island	low nearly level coral island surrounded by a narrow fringing reef
186	Bangladesh	mostly flat alluvial plain; hilly in southeast
187	Barbados	relatively flat; rises gently to central highland region
188	Bassas da India	a volcanic rock 2	.4 meters high
189	Belarus	generally flat and contains much marshland
190	Belgium	flat coastal plains in northwest central rolling hills rugged mountains of Ardennes Forest in southeast
191	Belize	flat swampy coastal plain; low mountains in south
192	Benin	mostly flat to undulating plain; some hills and low mountains
193	Bermuda	low hills separated by fertile depressions
194	Bhutan	mostly mountainous with some fertile valleys and savanna
195	Bolivia	rugged Andes Mountains with a highland plateau
196	Bosnia and Herzegovina	mountains and valleys
197	Djibouti	coastal plain and plateau separated by central mountains
198	Dominican Republic	rugged highlands and mountains with fertile valleys interspersed
199	Kyrgyzstan	peaks of Tien Shan rise to 7000 meters and associated valleys and basins encompass entire nation
200	Isle of Man	hills in north and south bisected by central valley
201	Heard Island and McDonald Islands	Heard Island - bleak and mountainous with an quiescent volcano; McDonald Islands - small and rocky
202	Holy See	low hill
203	Honduras	mostly mountains in interior narrow coastal plains
204	Hong Kong	hilly to mountainous with steep slopes; lowlands in north
205	Howland Island	low-lying nearly level sandy coral island surrounded by a narrow fringing reef; depressed central area
206	Hungary	mostly flat to rolling plains
207	Iceland	mostly plateau interspersed with mountain peaks icefields; coast deeply indented by bays and fiords
208	India	upland plain
209	Indian Ocean	surface dominated by counterclockwise gyre
210	Indonesia	mostly coastal lowlands; larger islands have interior mountains
211	Iran	rugged mountainous rim; high central basin with deserts mountains; small discontinuous plains along both coasts
212	Iraq	mostly broad plains; reedy marshes in southeast; mountains along borders with Iran and Turkey
213	Ireland	mostly level to rolling interior plain surrounded by rugged hills and low mountains; sea cliffs on west coast
214	Israel	Negev desert in the south; low coastal plain; central mountains; Jordan Rift Valley
215	Guyana	mostly rolling highlands; low coastal plain; savanna in south
216	Italy	mostly rugged and mountainous; some plains coastal lowlands
217	Jamaica	mostly mountains with narrow discontinuous coastal plain
218	Jan Mayen	volcanic island partly covered by glaciers; Beerenberg is the highest peak with an elevation of 2277 meters
219	Japan	mostly rugged and mountainous
220	Jarvis Island	sandy coral island surrounded by a narrow fringing reef
221	Jersey	gently rolling plain with low rugged hills along north coast
222	Johnston Atoll	mostly flat with a maximum elevation of 4 meters
223	Jordan	mostly desert plateau in east highland area in west; Great Rift Valley separates East and West Banks of the Jordan River
224	Juan de Nova Island	NA
225	Kazakhstan	extends from the Volga to the Altai Mountains and from the plains in western Siberia to oasis and desert in Central Asia
226	Kenya	low plains rise to central highlands bisected by Great Rift Valley; fertile plateau in west
227	Kingman Reef	low and nearly level with a maximum elevation of about 1 meter
228	Kiribati	mostly low-lying coral atolls surrounded by extensive reefs
229	Kuwait	flat to slightly undulating desert plain
230	Haiti	mostly rough and mountainous
231	Guinea	generally flat coastal plain hilly to mountainous interior
232	Ecuador	coastal plain
233	French Polynesia	mixture of rugged high islands and low islands with reefs
234	Egypt	vast desert plateau interrupted by Nile valley and delta
235	El Salvador	mostly mountains with narrow coastal belt and central plateau
236	Equatorial Guinea	coastal plains rise to interior hills; islands are volcanic
237	Eritrea	dominated by extension of Ethiopian north-south trending highlands descending on the east to a coastal desert plan on the northwest to hilly terrain and on the southwest to flat-to-rolling plains
238	Estonia	marshy lowlands
239	Ethiopia	high plateau with central mountain range divided by Great Rift Valley
240	Europa Island	NA
241	Falkland Islands	rocky hilly mountainous with some boggy undulating plains
242	Faroe Islands	rugged rocky some low peaks; cliffs along most of coast
243	Federated States of Micronesia	islands vary geologically from high mountainous islands to low coral atolls; volcanic outcroppings on Pohnpei Kosrae and Truk
244	Fiji	mostly mountains of volcanic origin
245	Finland	mostly low flat to rolling plains interspersed with lakes and low hills
246	France	mostly flat plains or gently rolling hills in north and west; remainder is mountainous especially Pyrenees in south Alps in east
247	French Guiana	low-lying coastal plains rising to hills and small mountains
248	French Southern and Antarctic Lands	volcanic
249	Guinea-Bissau	mostly low coastal plain rising to savanna in east
250	Gabon	narrow coastal plain; hilly interior; savanna in east and south
251	Gaza Strip	flat to rolling sand- and dune-covered coastal plain
252	Georgia	largely mountainous with Great Caucasus Mountains in the north and Lesser Caucasus Mountains in the south; Kolkhida Lowland opens to the Black Sea in the west; Mtkvari River Basin in the east; good soils in river valley flood plains foothills of Kolkhida Lowland
253	Germany	lowlands in north uplands in center Bavarian Alps in south
254	Ghana	mostly low plains with dissected plateau in south-central area
255	Gibraltar	a narrow coastal lowland borders The Rock
256	Glorioso Islands	NA
257	Greece	mostly mountains with ranges extending into sea as peninsulas or chains of islands
258	Greenland	flat to gradually sloping icecap covers all but a narrow mountainous barren rocky coast
259	Grenada	volcanic in origin with central mountains
260	Guadeloupe	Basse-Terre is volcanic in origin with interior mountains; Grand-Terre is low limestone formation
261	Guam	volcanic origin surrounded by coral reefs; relatively flat coraline limestone plateau
262	Guatemala	mostly mountains with narrow coastal plains and rolling limestone plateau
263	Guernsey	mostly level with low hills in southwest
264	Zimbabwe	mostly high plateau with higher central plateau

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