Country ranking for field: terrain 2000

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This entry contains a brief description of the topography.

	World	the greatest ocean depth is the Mariana Trench at 10924 m in the Pacific Ocean
1	Afghanistan	0
2	Palau	varying geologically from the high mountainous main island of Babelthuap to low coral islands usually fringed by large barrier reefs
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	Pakistan	flat Indus plain in east; mountains in north and northwest; Balochistan plateau in west
16	Palmyra Atoll	very low
17	Nepal	Terai or flat river plain of the Ganges in south central hill region rugged Himalayas in north
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 River 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	Russia	broad plain with low hills west of Urals; vast coniferous forest and tundra in Siberia; uplands and mountains along southern border regions
31	Rwanda	mostly grassy uplands and hills; relief is mountainous with altitude declining from west to east
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 Helena	Saint Helena - rugged volcanic; small scattered plateaus and plains
35	Malta	mostly low rocky flat to dissected plains; many coastal cliffs
36	Lesotho	mostly highland with 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 flood plain in the southeast
42	Macau	generally flat
43	Macedonia	mountainous territory covered with deep basins and valleys; three large lakes each divided by a frontier line; country bisected by the Vardar River
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 white sandy beaches
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 deep ravines and ancient volcanic peaks
55	Mexico	high rugged mountains; low coastal plains; high plateaus; 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	northern coast and interior are mountainous with large areas of bordering plateaus intermontane valleys and 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	Réunion	mostly rugged and mountainous; fertile lowlands along coast
66	Saint Kitts and Nevis	volcanic with mountainous interiors
67	Latvia	low plain
68	Uganda	mostly plateau with rim of mountains
69	The Gambia	flood plain of the Gambia river flanked by some low hills
70	The Netherlands	mostly coastal lowland and reclaimed land
71	Togo	gently rolling savanna in north; central hills; southern plateau; low coastal plain with extensive lagoons and marshes
72	Tokelau	low-lying coral atolls enclosing large lagoons
73	Tonga	most islands have limestone base formed from uplifted coral formation; others have limestone overlying volcanic base
74	Trinidad and Tobago	mostly plains with some hills and low mountains
75	Tromelin Island	low flat and sandy
76	Tunisia	mountains in north; hot dry central plain; semiarid south merges into the Sahara
77	Turkey	mostly mountains; narrow coastal plain; high central plateau
78	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
79	Turks and Caicos Islands	low flat limestone; extensive marshes and mangrove swamps
80	Tuvalu	very low-lying and narrow coral atolls
81	U.S. Virgin Islands	mostly hilly to rugged and mountainous with little level land
82	Ukraine	most of Ukraine consists of fertile plains
83	Thailand	central plain; Khorat Plateau in the east; mountains elsewhere
84	United Arab Emirates	flat barren coastal plain merging into rolling sand dunes of vast desert wasteland; mountains in east
85	United Kingdom	mostly rugged hills and low mountains; level to rolling plains in east and southeast
86	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
87	Uruguay	mostly rolling plains and low hills; fertile coastal lowland
88	Uzbekistan	mostly flat-to-rolling sandy desert with dunes; broad flat intensely irrigated river valleys along course of Amu Darya Sirdaryo
89	Vanuatu	mostly mountains of volcanic origin; narrow coastal plains
90	Venezuela	Andes Mountains and Maracaibo Lowlands in northwest; central plains
91	Vietnam	low flat delta in south and north; central highlands; hilly mountainous in far north and northwest
92	Wake Island	atoll of three coral islands built up on an underwater volcano; central lagoon is former crater islands are part of the rim
93	Wallis and Futuna	volcanic origin; low hills
94	West Bank	mostly rugged dissected upland some vegetation in west but barren in east
95	Western Sahara	mostly low flat desert with large areas of rocky or sandy surfaces rising to small mountains in south and northeast
96	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
97	Zambia	mostly high plateau with some hills and mountains
98	The Bahamas	long flat coral formations with some low rounded hills
99	Tanzania	plains along coast; central plateau; highlands in north south
100	Saint Lucia	volcanic and mountainous with some broad fertile valleys
101	South Africa	vast interior plateau rimmed by rugged hills and narrow coastal plain
102	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	volcanic mountainous
103	Saint-Pierre and Miquelon	mostly barren rock
104	Samoa	narrow coastal plain with volcanic rocky rugged mountains in interior
105	San Marino	rugged mountains
106	Saudi Arabia	mostly uninhabited sandy desert
107	Senegal	generally low rolling plains rising to foothills in southeast
108	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
109	Seychelles	Mahe Group is granitic narrow coastal strip rocky hilly; others are coral flat elevated reefs
110	Sierra Leone	coastal belt of mangrove swamps wooded hill country upland plateau mountains in east
111	Singapore	lowland; gently undulating central plateau contains water catchment area and nature preserve
112	Slovakia	rugged mountains in the central and northern part and lowlands in the south
113	Slovenia	a short coastal strip on the Adriatic an alpine mountain region adjacent to Italy and Austria mixed mountain and valleys with numerous rivers to the east
114	Solomon Islands	mostly rugged mountains with some low coral atolls
115	Somalia	mostly flat to undulating plateau rising to hills in north
116	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
117	Tajikistan	Pamir and Alay mountains dominate landscape; western Fergana Valley in north Kofarnihon and Vakhsh Valleys in southwest
118	South Korea	mostly hills and mountains; wide coastal plains in west and south
119	Southern Ocean	the Southern Ocean is deep 4000 to 5000 meters over most of its extent with only limited areas of shallow water; the antarctic continental shelf is generally narrow and unusually deep - its edge lying at depths of 400 to 800 meters
120	Spain	large flat to dissected plateau surrounded by rugged hills; Pyrenees in north
121	Spratly Islands	flat
122	Sri Lanka	mostly low flat to rolling plain; mountains in south-central interior
123	Sudan	generally flat featureless plain; mountains in east and west
124	Suriname	mostly rolling hills; narrow coastal plain with swamps
125	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
126	Swaziland	mostly mountains and hills; some moderately sloping plains
127	Sweden	mostly flat or gently rolling lowlands; mountains in west
128	Switzerland	mostly mountains
129	Syria	primarily semiarid and desert plateau; narrow coastal plain; mountains in west
130	São Tomé and Príncipe	volcanic mountainous
131	Taiwan	eastern two-thirds mostly rugged mountains; flat to gently rolling plains in west
132	Lebanon	narrow coastal plain; Al Biqa'
133	Laos	mostly rugged mountains; some plains and plateaus
134	Albania	mostly mountains and hills; small plains along coast
135	China	mostly mountains high plateaus deserts in west; plains deltas and hills in east
136	British Virgin Islands	coral islands relatively flat; volcanic islands steep hilly
137	Brunei	flat coastal plain rises to mountains in east; hilly lowland in west
138	Bulgaria	mostly mountains with lowlands in north and southeast
139	Burkina Faso	mostly flat to dissected undulating plains; hills in west and southeast
140	Burundi	hilly and mountainous dropping to a plateau in east some plains
141	Cabo Verde	steep rugged rocky volcanic
142	Cambodia	mostly low flat plains; mountains in southwest and north
143	Cameroon	diverse with coastal plain in southwest dissected plateau in center mountains in west plains in north
144	Canada	mostly plains with mountains in west and lowlands in southeast
145	Cayman Islands	low-lying limestone base surrounded by coral reefs
146	Central African Republic	vast flat to rolling monotonous plateau; scattered hills in northeast and southwest
147	Chad	broad arid plains in center desert in north mountains in northwest lowlands in south
148	Chile	low coastal mountains; fertile central valley; rugged Andes in east
149	Christmas Island	steep cliffs along coast rise abruptly to central plateau
150	Brazil	mostly flat to rolling lowlands in north; some plains hills mountains and narrow coastal belt
151	Clipperton Island	coral atoll
152	Cocos Islands	flat low-lying coral atolls
153	Colombia	flat coastal lowlands central highlands high Andes Mountains eastern lowland plains
154	Comoros	volcanic islands interiors vary from steep mountains to low hills
155	Congo	coastal plain southern basin central plateau northern basin
156	Cook Islands	low coral atolls in north; volcanic hilly islands in south
157	Coral Sea Islands Territory	sand and coral reefs and islands
158	Costa Rica	coastal plains separated by rugged mountains
159	Croatia	geographically diverse; flat plains along Hungarian border low mountains and highlands near Adriatic coastline and islands
160	Cuba	mostly flat to rolling plains with rugged hills and mountains in the southeast
161	Cyprus	central plain with mountains to north and south; scattered but significant plains along southern coast
162	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
163	Côte d'Ivoire	mostly flat to undulating plains; mountains in northwest
164	Democratic Republic of the Congo	vast central basin is a low-lying plateau; mountains in east
165	British Indian Ocean Territory	flat and low
166	Bouvet Island	volcanic; maximum elevation about 800 m; coast is mostly inaccessible
167	Djibouti	coastal plain and plateau separated by central mountains
168	Australia	mostly low plateau with deserts; fertile plain in southeast
169	Algeria	mostly high plateau and desert; some mountains; narrow discontinuous coastal plain
170	American Samoa	five volcanic islands with rugged peaks and limited coastal plains two coral atolls
171	Andorra	rugged mountains dissected by narrow valleys
172	Angola	narrow coastal plain rises abruptly to vast interior plateau
173	Anguilla	flat and low-lying island of coral and limestone
174	Antarctica	about 98% thick continental ice sheet and 2% barren rock with average elevations between 2000 and 4000 meters; mountain ranges up to 5140 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
175	Antigua and Barbuda	mostly low-lying limestone and coral islands with some higher volcanic areas
176	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
177	Argentina	rich plains of the Pampas in northern half flat to rolling plateau of Patagonia in south rugged Andes along western border
178	Armenia	Armenian Highland with mountains; little forest land; fast flowing rivers; good soil in Aras River valley
179	Aruba	flat with a few hills; scant vegetation
180	Ashmore and Cartier Islands	low with sand and coral
181	Atlantic Ocean	surface usually covered with sea ice in Labrador Sea Denmark Strait and Baltic Sea from October to June; clockwise warm-water gyre
182	Austria	in the west and south mostly mountains
183	Botswana	predominantly flat to gently rolling tableland; Kalahari Desert in southwest
184	Azerbaijan	large flat Kur-Araz Ovaligi
185	Bahrain	mostly low desert plain rising gently to low central escarpment
186	Baker Island	low nearly level coral island surrounded by a narrow fringing reef
187	Bangladesh	mostly flat alluvial plain; hilly in southeast
188	Barbados	relatively flat; rises gently to central highland region
189	Bassas da India	volcanic rock
190	Belarus	generally flat and contains much marshland
191	Belgium	flat coastal plains in northwest central rolling hills rugged mountains of Ardennes Forest in southeast
192	Belize	flat swampy coastal plain; low mountains in south
193	Benin	mostly flat to undulating plain; some hills and low mountains
194	Bermuda	low hills separated by fertile depressions
195	Bhutan	mostly mountainous with some fertile valleys and savanna
196	Bolivia	rugged Andes Mountains with a highland plateau
197	Bosnia and Herzegovina	mountains and valleys
198	Denmark	low and flat to gently rolling plains
199	Dominica	rugged mountains of volcanic origin
200	Kyrgyzstan	peaks of Tien Shan and associated valleys and basins encompass entire nation
201	Isle of Man	hills in north and south bisected by central valley
202	Haiti	mostly rough and mountainous
203	Heard Island and McDonald Islands	Heard Island - bleak and mountainous with a quiescent volcano; McDonald Islands - small and rocky
204	Holy See	low hill
205	Honduras	mostly mountains in interior narrow coastal plains
206	Hong Kong	hilly to mountainous with steep slopes; lowlands in north
207	Howland Island	low-lying nearly level sandy coral island surrounded by a narrow fringing reef; depressed central area
208	Hungary	mostly flat to rolling plains; hills and low mountains on the Slovakian border
209	Iceland	mostly plateau interspersed with mountain peaks icefields; coast deeply indented by bays and fiords
210	India	upland plain
211	Indian Ocean	surface dominated by counterclockwise gyre
212	Indonesia	mostly coastal lowlands; larger islands have interior mountains
213	Iran	rugged mountainous rim; high central basin with deserts mountains; small discontinuous plains along both coasts
214	Ireland	mostly level to rolling interior plain surrounded by rugged hills and low mountains; sea cliffs on west coast
215	Israel	Negev desert in the south; low coastal plain; central mountains; Jordan Rift Valley
216	Guinea	generally flat coastal plain hilly to mountainous interior
217	Italy	mostly rugged and mountainous; some plains coastal lowlands
218	Jamaica	mostly mountains with narrow discontinuous coastal plain
219	Jan Mayen	volcanic island partly covered by glaciers
220	Japan	mostly rugged and mountainous
221	Jarvis Island	sandy coral island surrounded by a narrow fringing reef
222	Jersey	gently rolling plain with low rugged hills along north coast
223	Johnston Atoll	mostly flat
224	Jordan	mostly desert plateau in east highland area in west; Great Rift Valley separates East and West Banks of the Jordan River
225	Juan de Nova Island	low and flat
226	Kazakhstan	extends from the Volga to the Altai Mountains and from the plains in western Siberia to oases and desert in Central Asia
227	Kenya	low plains rise to central highlands bisected by Great Rift Valley; fertile plateau in west
228	Kingman Reef	low and nearly level
229	Kiribati	mostly low-lying coral atolls surrounded by extensive reefs
230	Kuwait	flat to slightly undulating desert plain
231	Guyana	mostly rolling highlands; low coastal plain; savanna in south
232	Guinea-Bissau	mostly low coastal plain rising to savanna in east
233	Dominican Republic	rugged highlands and mountains with fertile valleys interspersed
234	French Guiana	low-lying coastal plains rising to hills and small mountains
235	Ecuador	coastal plain
236	Egypt	vast desert plateau interrupted by Nile valley and delta
237	El Salvador	mostly mountains with narrow coastal belt and central plateau
238	Equatorial Guinea	coastal plains rise to interior hills; islands are volcanic
239	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
240	Estonia	marshy lowlands
241	Ethiopia	high plateau with central mountain range divided by Great Rift Valley
242	Europa Island	low and flat
243	Falkland Islands	rocky hilly mountainous with some boggy undulating plains
244	Faroe Islands	rugged rocky some low peaks; cliffs along most of coast
245	Federated States of Micronesia	islands vary geologically from high mountainous islands to low coral atolls; volcanic outcroppings on Pohnpei Kosrae and Truk
246	Fiji	mostly mountains of volcanic origin
247	Finland	mostly low flat to rolling plains interspersed with lakes and low hills
248	France	mostly flat plains or gently rolling hills in north and west; remainder is mountainous especially Pyrenees in south Alps in east
249	French Polynesia	mixture of rugged high islands and low islands with reefs
250	Guernsey	mostly level with low hills in southwest
251	French Southern and Antarctic Lands	volcanic
252	Gabon	narrow coastal plain; hilly interior; savanna in east and south
253	Gaza Strip	flat to rolling sand- and dune-covered coastal plain
254	Georgia	largely mountainous with Great Caucasus Mountains in the north and Lesser Caucasus Mountains in the south; Kolkhet'is Dablobi
255	Germany	lowlands in north uplands in center Bavarian Alps in south
256	Ghana	mostly low plains with dissected plateau in south-central area
257	Gibraltar	a narrow coastal lowland borders the Rock of Gibraltar
258	Glorioso Islands	low and flat
259	Greece	mostly mountains with ranges extending into the sea as peninsulas or chains of islands
260	Greenland	flat to gradually sloping icecap covers all but a narrow mountainous barren rocky coast
261	Grenada	volcanic in origin with central mountains
262	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
263	Guam	volcanic origin surrounded by coral reefs; relatively flat coralline limestone plateau
264	Guatemala	mostly mountains with narrow coastal plains and rolling limestone plateau
265	Zimbabwe	mostly high plateau with higher central plateau

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