Country ranking for field: terrain 1998

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This entry contains a brief description of the topography.

1	Afghanistan	0
2	Pakistan	flat Indus plain in east; mountains in north and northwest; Balochistan 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
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	Palau	varying geologically from the high mountainous main island of Babelthuap to low coral islands usually fringed by large barrier reefs
16	Navassa Island	raised coral and limestone plateau flat to undulating; ringed by vertical white cliffs
17	Palmyra Atoll	very low
18	Panama	interior mostly steep rugged mountains and dissected upland plains; coastal areas largely plains and rolling hills
19	Papua New Guinea	mostly mountains with coastal lowlands and rolling foothills
20	Paracel Islands	NA
21	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
22	Peru	western coastal plain
23	Philippines	mostly mountains with narrow to extensive coastal lowlands
24	Pitcairn Islands	rugged volcanic formation; rocky coastline with cliffs
25	Poland	mostly flat plain; mountains along southern border
26	Portugal	mountainous north of the Tagus rolling plains in south
27	Puerto Rico	mostly mountains with coastal plain belt in north; mountains precipitous to sea on west coast; sandy beaches along most coastal areas
28	Qatar	mostly flat and barren desert covered with loose sand and gravel
29	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
30	Nepal	Terai or flat river plain of the Ganges in south central hill region rugged Himalayas in north
31	Nauru	sandy beach rises to fertile ring around raised coral reefs with phosphate plateau in center
32	Rwanda	mostly grassy uplands and hills; relief is mountainous with altitude declining from west to east
33	Malta	mostly low rocky flat to dissected plains; many coastal cliffs
34	Lebanon	narrow coastal plain; Al Biqa'
35	Lesotho	mostly highland with 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	Madagascar	narrow coastal plain high plateau and mountains in center
43	Malawi	narrow elongated plateau with rolling plains rounded hills some mountains
44	Malaysia	coastal plains rising to hills and mountains
45	Maldives	flat with white sandy beaches
46	Mali	mostly flat to rolling northern plains covered by sand; savanna in south rugged hills in northeast
47	Marshall Islands	low coral limestone and sand islands
48	Namibia	mostly high plateau; Namib Desert along coast; Kalahari Desert in east
49	Martinique	mountainous with indented coastline; dormant volcano
50	Mauritania	mostly barren flat plains of the Sahara; some central hills
51	Mauritius	small coastal plain rising to discontinuous mountains encircling central plateau
52	Mayotte	generally undulating with deep ravines and ancient volcanic peaks
53	Mexico	high rugged mountains low coastal plains high plateaus and desert
54	Midway Islands	low nearly level
55	Moldova	rolling steppe gradual slope south to Black Sea
56	Monaco	hilly rugged rocky
57	Mongolia	vast semidesert and desert plains; mountains in west and southwest; Gobi Desert in southeast
58	Montserrat	volcanic islands mostly mountainous with small coastal lowland
59	Morocco	northern coast and interior are mountainous with large areas of bordering plateaus intermontane valleys and rich coastal plains
60	Mozambique	mostly coastal lowlands uplands in center high plateaus in northwest mountains in west
61	Myanmar	central lowlands ringed by steep rugged highlands
62	Russia	broad plain with low hills west of Urals; vast coniferous forest and tundra in Siberia; uplands and mountains along southern border regions
63	Saint Helena	Saint Helena_rugged volcanic; small scattered plateaus and plains
64	Laos	mostly rugged mountains; some plains and plateaus
65	Ukraine	most of Ukraine consists of fertile plains
66	The Netherlands	mostly coastal lowland and reclaimed land
67	Togo	gently rolling savanna in north; central hills; southern plateau; low coastal plain with extensive lagoons and marshes
68	Tokelau	low-lying coral atolls enclosing large lagoons
69	Tonga	most islands have limestone base formed from uplifted coral formation; others have limestone overlying volcanic base
70	Trinidad and Tobago	mostly plains with some hills and low mountains
71	Tromelin Island	sandy
72	Tunisia	mountains in north; hot dry central plain; semiarid south merges into the Sahara
73	Turkey	mostly mountains; narrow coastal plain; high central plateau
74	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
75	Turks and Caicos Islands	low flat limestone; extensive marshes and mangrove swamps
76	Tuvalu	very low-lying and narrow coral atolls
77	U.S. Virgin Islands	mostly hilly to rugged and mountainous with little level land
78	Uganda	mostly plateau with rim of mountains
79	United Arab Emirates	flat barren coastal plain merging into rolling sand dunes of vast desert wasteland; mountains in east
80	The Bahamas	long flat coral formations with some low rounded hills
81	United Kingdom	mostly rugged hills and low mountains; level to rolling plains in east and southeast
82	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
83	Uruguay	mostly rolling plains and low hills; fertile coastal lowland
84	Uzbekistan	mostly flat-to-rolling sandy desert with dunes; broad flat intensely irrigated river valleys along course of Amu Darya Sirdaryo and Zarafshon; Fergana Valley in east surrounded by mountainous Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan; shrinking Aral Sea in west
85	Vanuatu	mostly mountains of volcanic origin; narrow coastal plains
86	Venezuela	Andes Mountains and Maracaibo Lowlands in northwest; central plains
87	Vietnam	low flat delta in south and north; central highlands; hilly mountainous in far north and northwest
88	Wake Island	atoll of three coral islands built up on an underwater volcano; central lagoon is former crater islands are part of the rim
89	Wallis and Futuna	volcanic origin; low hills
90	West Bank	mostly rugged dissected upland some vegetation in west but barren in east
91	Western Sahara	mostly low flat desert with large areas of rocky or sandy surfaces rising to small mountains in south and northeast
92	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
93	Zambia	mostly high plateau with some hills and mountains
94	The Gambia	flood plain of the Gambia River flanked by some low hills
95	Thailand	central plain; Khorat Plateau in the east; mountains elsewhere
96	Saint Kitts and Nevis	volcanic with mountainous interiors
97	Somalia	mostly flat to undulating plateau rising to hills in north
98	Saint Lucia	volcanic and mountainous with some broad fertile valleys
99	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	volcanic mountainous
100	Samoa	narrow coastal plain with volcanic rocky rugged mountains in interior
101	San Marino	rugged mountains
102	Saudi Arabia	mostly uninhabited sandy desert
103	Senegal	generally low rolling plains rising to foothills in southeast
104	Serbia and Montenegro	extremely varied; to the north rich fertile plains; to the east limestone ranges and basins; to the southeast ancient mountains and hills; to the southwest extremely high shoreline with no islands off the coast
105	Seychelles	Mahe Group is granitic narrow coastal strip rocky hilly; others are coral flat elevated reefs
106	Sierra Leone	coastal belt of mangrove swamps wooded hill country upland plateau mountains in east
107	Singapore	lowland; gently undulating central plateau contains water catchment area and nature preserve
108	Slovakia	rugged mountains in the central and northern part and lowlands in the south
109	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
110	Solomon Islands	mostly rugged mountains with some low coral atolls
111	South Africa	vast interior plateau rimmed by rugged hills and narrow coastal plain
112	Tanzania	plains along coast; central plateau; highlands in north south
113	South Korea	mostly hills and mountains; wide coastal plains in west and south
114	Spain	large flat to dissected plateau surrounded by rugged hills; Pyrenees in north
115	Spratly Islands	flat
116	Sri Lanka	mostly low flat to rolling plain; mountains in south-central interior
117	Sudan	generally flat featureless plain; mountains in east and west
118	Suriname	mostly rolling hills; narrow coastal plain with swamps
119	Svalbard	wild rugged mountains; much of high land ice covered; west coast clear of ice about one-half of the year; fjords along west and north coasts
120	Swaziland	mostly mountains and hills; some moderately sloping plains
121	Sweden	mostly flat or gently rolling lowlands; mountains in west
122	Switzerland	mostly mountains
123	Syria	primarily semiarid and desert plateau; narrow coastal plain; mountains in west
124	Taiwan	eastern two-thirds mostly rugged mountains; flat to gently rolling plains in west
125	Tajikistan	Pamirs and Alay Mountains dominate landscape; western Fergana Valley in north Kofarnihon and Vakhsh Valleys in southwest
126	Latvia	low plain
127	Kyrgyzstan	peaks of Tien Shan and associated valleys and basins encompass entire nation
128	Albania	mostly mountains and hills; small plains along coast
129	China	mostly mountains high plateaus deserts in west; plains deltas and hills in east
130	British Virgin Islands	coral islands relatively flat; volcanic islands steep hilly
131	Brunei	flat coastal plain rises to mountains in east; hilly lowland in west
132	Bulgaria	mostly mountains with lowlands in north and southeast
133	Burkina Faso	mostly flat to dissected undulating plains; hills in west and southeast
134	Burundi	hilly and mountainous dropping to a plateau in east some plains
135	Cabo Verde	steep rugged rocky volcanic
136	Cambodia	mostly low flat plains; mountains in southwest and north
137	Cameroon	diverse with coastal plain in southwest dissected plateau in center mountains in west plains in north
138	Canada	mostly plains with mountains in west and lowlands in southeast
139	Cayman Islands	low-lying limestone base surrounded by coral reefs
140	Central African Republic	vast flat to rolling monotonous plateau; scattered hills in northeast and southwest
141	Chad	broad arid plains in center desert in north mountains in northwest lowlands in south
142	Chile	low coastal mountains; fertile central valley; rugged Andes in east
143	Christmas Island	steep cliffs along coast rise abruptly to central plateau
144	Brazil	mostly flat to rolling lowlands in north; some plains hills mountains and narrow coastal belt
145	Clipperton Island	coral atoll
146	Cocos Islands	flat low-lying coral atolls
147	Colombia	flat coastal lowlands central highlands high Andes Mountains eastern lowland plains
148	Comoros	volcanic islands interiors vary from steep mountains to low hills
149	Congo	coastal plain southern basin central plateau northern basin
150	Cook Islands	low coral atolls in north; volcanic hilly islands in south
151	Coral Sea Islands	sand and coral reefs and islands
152	Costa Rica	coastal plains separated by rugged mountains
153	Croatia	geographically diverse; flat plains along Hungarian border low mountains and highlands near Adriatic coast coastline and islands
154	Cuba	mostly flat to rolling plains with rugged hills and mountains in the southeast
155	Cyprus	central plain with mountains to north and south; scattered but significant plains along southern coast
156	Czech Republic	Bohemia in the west consists of rolling plains hills and plateaus surrounded by low mountains; Moravia in the east consists of very hilly country
157	Côte d'Ivoire	mostly flat to undulating plains; mountains in northwest
158	British Indian Ocean Territory	flat and low
159	Bouvet Island	volcanic; maximum elevation about 800 meters; coast is mostly inaccessible
160	Denmark	low and flat to gently rolling plains
161	Australia	mostly low plateau with deserts; fertile plain in southeast
162	Algeria	mostly high plateau and desert; some mountains; narrow discontinuous coastal plain
163	American Samoa	five volcanic islands with rugged peaks and limited coastal plains two coral atolls
164	Andorra	rugged mountains dissected by narrow valleys
165	Angola	narrow coastal plain rises abruptly to vast interior plateau
166	Anguilla	flat and low-lying island of coral and limestone
167	Antarctica	about 98% thick continental ice sheet and 2% barren rock with average elevations between 2000 and 4000 meters; mountain ranges up to about 5000 meters; 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
168	Antigua and Barbuda	mostly low-lying limestone and coral islands with some higher volcanic areas
169	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
170	Argentina	rich plains of the Pampas in northern half flat to rolling plateau of Patagonia in south rugged Andes along western border
171	Armenia	high Armenian Plateau with mountains; little forest land; fast flowing rivers; good soil in Aras River valley
172	Aruba	flat with a few hills; scant vegetation
173	Ashmore and Cartier Islands	low with sand and coral
174	Atlantic Ocean	surface usually covered with sea ice in Labrador Sea Denmark Strait and Baltic Sea from October to June; clockwise warm water gyre
175	Austria	in the west and south mostly mountains
176	Botswana	predominately flat to gently rolling tableland; Kalahari Desert in southwest
177	Azerbaijan	large flat Kur-Araz Lowland
178	Baker Island	low nearly level coral island surrounded by a narrow fringing reef
179	Bangladesh	mostly flat alluvial plain; hilly in southeast
180	Barbados	relatively flat; rises gently to central highland region
181	Bassas da India	a volcanic rock 2	.4 meters high
182	Belarus	generally flat and contains much marshland
183	Belgium	flat coastal plains in northwest central rolling hills rugged mountains of Ardennes Forest in southeast
184	Belize	flat swampy coastal plain; low mountains in south
185	Benin	mostly flat to undulating plain; some hills and low mountains
186	Bermuda	low hills separated by fertile depressions
187	Bhutan	mostly mountainous with some fertile valleys and savanna
188	Bolivia	rugged Andes Mountains with a highland plateau
189	Bosnia and Herzegovina	mountains and valleys
190	Democratic Republic of the Congo	vast central basin is a low-lying plateau; mountains in east
191	Djibouti	coastal plain and plateau separated by central mountains
192	Kuwait	flat to slightly undulating desert plain
193	Isle of Man	hills in north and south bisected by central valley
194	Heard Island and McDonald Islands	Heard Island_bleak and mountainous with a quiescent volcano; McDonald Islands_small and rocky
195	Holy See	low hill
196	Honduras	mostly mountains in interior narrow coastal plains
197	Hong Kong	hilly to mountainous with steep slopes; lowlands in north
198	Howland Island	low-lying nearly level sandy coral island surrounded by a narrow fringing reef; depressed central area
199	Hungary	mostly flat to rolling plains; hills and low mountains on the Slovakian border
200	Iceland	mostly plateau interspersed with mountain peaks icefields; coast deeply indented by bays and fiords
201	India	upland plain
202	Indian Ocean	surface dominated by counterclockwise gyre
203	Indonesia	mostly coastal lowlands; larger islands have interior mountains
204	Iran	rugged mountainous rim; high central basin with deserts mountains; small discontinuous plains along both coasts
205	Iraq	mostly broad plains; reedy marshes along Iranian border in south with large flooded areas; mountains along borders with Iran and Turkey
206	Ireland	mostly level to rolling interior plain surrounded by rugged hills and low mountains; sea cliffs on west coast
207	Israel	Negev desert in the south; low coastal plain; central mountains; Jordan Rift Valley
208	Guyana	mostly rolling highlands; low coastal plain; savanna in south
209	Italy	mostly rugged and mountainous; some plains coastal lowlands
210	Jamaica	mostly mountains with narrow discontinuous coastal plain
211	Jan Mayen	volcanic island partly covered by glaciers
212	Japan	mostly rugged and mountainous
213	Jarvis Island	sandy coral island surrounded by a narrow fringing reef
214	Jersey	gently rolling plain with low rugged hills along north coast
215	Johnston Atoll	mostly flat
216	Jordan	mostly desert plateau in east highland area in west; Great Rift Valley separates East and West Banks of the Jordan River
217	Juan de Nova Island	NA
218	Kazakhstan	extends from the Volga to the Altai Mountains and from the plains in western Siberia to oasis and desert in Central Asia
219	Kenya	low plains rise to central highlands bisected by Great Rift Valley; fertile plateau in west
220	Kingman Reef	low and nearly level
221	Kiribati	mostly low-lying coral atolls surrounded by extensive reefs
222	Haiti	mostly rough and mountainous
223	Guinea	generally flat coastal plain hilly to mountainous interior
224	Dominica	rugged mountains of volcanic origin
225	Finland	mostly low flat to rolling plains interspersed with lakes and low hills
226	Dominican Republic	rugged highlands and mountains with fertile valleys interspersed
227	Ecuador	coastal plain
228	Egypt	vast desert plateau interrupted by Nile valley and delta
229	El Salvador	mostly mountains with narrow coastal belt and central plateau
230	Equatorial Guinea	coastal plains rise to interior hills; islands are volcanic
231	Eritrea	dominated by extension of Ethiopian north-south trending highlands descending on the east to a coastal desert plain on the northwest to hilly terrain and on the southwest to flat-to-rolling plains
232	Estonia	marshy lowlands
233	Ethiopia	high plateau with central mountain range divided by Great Rift Valley
234	Europa Island	NA
235	Falkland Islands	rocky hilly mountainous with some boggy undulating plains
236	Faroe Islands	rugged rocky some low peaks; cliffs along most of coast
237	Federated States of Micronesia	islands vary geologically from high mountainous islands to low coral atolls; volcanic outcroppings on Pohnpei Kosrae and Truk
238	Fiji	mostly mountains of volcanic origin
239	France	mostly flat plains or gently rolling hills in north and west; remainder is mountainous especially Pyrenees in south Alps in east
240	Guinea-Bissau	mostly low coastal plain rising to savanna in east
241	French Polynesia	mixture of rugged high islands and low islands with reefs
242	French Southern and Antarctic Lands	volcanic
243	Gabon	narrow coastal plain; hilly interior; savanna in east and south
244	Gaza Strip	flat to rolling sand- and dune-covered coastal plain
245	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
246	Germany	lowlands in north uplands in center Bavarian Alps in south
247	Gibraltar	a narrow coastal lowland borders the Rock of Gibraltar
248	Glorioso Islands	NA
249	Greece	mostly mountains with ranges extending into sea as peninsulas or chains of islands
250	Grenada	volcanic in origin with central mountains
251	Guadeloupe	Basse-Terre is volcanic in origin with interior mountains; Grande-Terre is low limestone formation; most of the seven other islands are volcanic in origin
252	Guatemala	mostly mountains with narrow coastal plains and rolling limestone plateau
253	Guernsey	mostly level with low hills in southwest
254	Zimbabwe	mostly high plateau with higher central plateau

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