Terrain (2003)

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	Afghanistan	mostly rugged mountains; plains in north and southwest
	Albania	mostly mountains and hills; small plains along coast
	Algeria	mostly high plateau and desert; some mountains; narrow, discontinuous coastal plain
	American Samoa	five volcanic islands with rugged peaks and limited coastal plains, two coral atolls (Rose Island, Swains Island)
	Andorra	rugged mountains dissected by narrow valleys
	Angola	narrow coastal plain rises abruptly to vast interior plateau
	Anguilla	flat and low-lying island of coral and limestone
	Antarctica	about 98% thick continental ice sheet and 2% barren rock, with average elevations between 2,000 and 4,000 meters; mountain ranges up to nearly 5,000 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
	Antigua and Barbuda	mostly low-lying limestone and coral islands, with some higher volcanic areas
	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 (Russia) to Denmark Strait (between Greenland and Iceland); the icepack is surrounded by open seas during the summer, but more than doubles in size during the winter and extends to the encircling landmasses; the ocean floor is about 50% continental shelf (highest percentage of any ocean) with the remainder a central basin interrupted by three submarine ridges (Alpha Cordillera, Nansen Cordillera, and Lomonosov Ridge)
	Argentina	rich plains of the Pampas in northern half, flat to rolling plateau of Patagonia in south, rugged Andes along western border
	Armenia	Armenian Highland with mountains; little forest land; fast flowing rivers; good soil in Aras River valley
	Aruba	flat with a few hills; scant vegetation
	Ashmore and Cartier Islands	low with sand and coral
	Atlantic Ocean	surface usually covered with sea ice in Labrador Sea, Denmark Strait, and coastal portions of the Baltic Sea from October to June; clockwise warm-water gyre (broad, circular system of currents) in the northern Atlantic, counterclockwise warm-water gyre in the southern Atlantic; the ocean floor is dominated by the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a rugged north-south centerline for the entire Atlantic basin
	Australia	mostly low plateau with deserts; fertile plain in southeast
	Austria	in the west and south mostly mountains (Alps); along the eastern and northern margins mostly flat or gently sloping
	Azerbaijan	large, flat Kur-Araz Ovaligi (Kura-Araks Lowland) (much of it below sea level) with Great Caucasus Mountains to the north, Qarabag Yaylasi (Karabakh Upland) in west; Baku lies on Abseron Yasaqligi (Apsheron Peninsula) that juts into Caspian Sea
	Bahamas, The	long, flat coral formations with some low rounded hills
	Bahrain	mostly low desert plain rising gently to low central escarpment
	Baker Island	low, nearly level coral island surrounded by a narrow fringing reef
	Bangladesh	mostly flat alluvial plain; hilly in southeast
	Barbados	relatively flat; rises gently to central highland region
	Bassas da India	volcanic rock
	Belarus	generally flat and contains much marshland
	Belgium	flat coastal plains in northwest, central rolling hills, rugged mountains of Ardennes Forest in southeast
	Belize	flat, swampy coastal plain; low mountains in south
	Benin	mostly flat to undulating plain; some hills and low mountains
	Bermuda	low hills separated by fertile depressions
	Bhutan	mostly mountainous with some fertile valleys and savanna
	Bolivia	rugged Andes Mountains with a highland plateau (Altiplano), hills, lowland plains of the Amazon Basin
	Bosnia and Herzegovina	mountains and valleys
	Botswana	predominantly flat to gently rolling tableland; Kalahari Desert in southwest
	Bouvet Island	volcanic; coast is mostly inaccessible
	Brazil	mostly flat to rolling lowlands in north; some plains, hills, mountains, and narrow coastal belt
	British Indian Ocean Territory	flat and low (most areas do not exceed four meters in elevation)
	British Virgin Islands	coral islands relatively flat; volcanic islands steep, hilly
	Brunei	flat coastal plain rises to mountains in east; hilly lowland in west
	Bulgaria	mostly mountains with lowlands in north and southeast
	Burkina Faso	mostly flat to dissected, undulating plains; hills in west and southeast
	Burma	central lowlands ringed by steep, rugged highlands
	Burundi	hilly and mountainous, dropping to a plateau in east, some plains
	Cambodia	mostly low, flat plains; mountains in southwest and north
	Cameroon	diverse, with coastal plain in southwest, dissected plateau in center, mountains in west, plains in north
	Canada	mostly plains with mountains in west and lowlands in southeast
	Cape Verde	steep, rugged, rocky, volcanic
	Cayman Islands	low-lying limestone base surrounded by coral reefs
	Central African Republic	vast, flat to rolling, monotonous plateau; scattered hills in northeast and southwest
	Chad	broad, arid plains in center, desert in north, mountains in northwest, lowlands in south
	Chile	low coastal mountains; fertile central valley; rugged Andes in east
	China	mostly mountains, high plateaus, deserts in west; plains, deltas, and hills in east
	Christmas Island	steep cliffs along coast rise abruptly to central plateau
	Clipperton Island	coral atoll
	Cocos (Keeling) Islands	flat, low-lying coral atolls
	Colombia	flat coastal lowlands, central highlands, high Andes Mountains, eastern lowland plains
	Comoros	volcanic islands, interiors vary from steep mountains to low hills
	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	vast central basin is a low-lying plateau; mountains in east
	Congo, Republic of the	coastal plain, southern basin, central plateau, northern basin
	Cook Islands	low coral atolls in north; volcanic, hilly islands in south
	Coral Sea Islands	sand and coral reefs and islands (or cays)
	Costa Rica	coastal plains separated by rugged mountains including over 100 volcanic cones, of which several are major volcanoes
	Cote d'Ivoire	mostly flat to undulating plains; mountains in northwest
	Croatia	geographically diverse; flat plains along Hungarian border, low mountains and highlands near Adriatic coastline and islands
	Cuba	mostly flat to rolling plains, with rugged hills and mountains in the southeast
	Cyprus	central plain with mountains to north and south; scattered but significant plains along southern coast
	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
	Denmark	low and flat to gently rolling plains
	Djibouti	coastal plain and plateau separated by central mountains
	Dominica	rugged mountains of volcanic origin
	Dominican Republic	rugged highlands and mountains with fertile valleys interspersed
	East Timor	mountainous
	Ecuador	coastal plain (costa), inter-Andean central highlands (sierra), and flat to rolling eastern jungle (oriente)
	Egypt	vast desert plateau interrupted by Nile valley and delta
	El Salvador	mostly mountains with narrow coastal belt and central plateau
	Equatorial Guinea	coastal plains rise to interior hills; islands are volcanic
	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
	Estonia	marshy, lowlands; flat in the north, hilly in the south
	Ethiopia	high plateau with central mountain range divided by Great Rift Valley
	Europa Island	low and flat
	Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)	rocky, hilly, mountainous with some boggy, undulating plains
	Faroe Islands	rugged, rocky, some low peaks; cliffs along most of coast
	Fiji	mostly mountains of volcanic origin
	Finland	mostly low, flat to rolling plains interspersed with lakes and low hills
	France	mostly flat plains or gently rolling hills in north and west; remainder is mountainous, especially Pyrenees in south, Alps in east
	French Guiana	low-lying coastal plains rising to hills and small mountains
	French Polynesia	mixture of rugged high islands and low islands with reefs
	French Southern and Antarctic Lands	volcanic
	Gabon	narrow coastal plain; hilly interior; savanna in east and south
	Gambia, The	flood plain of the Gambia River flanked by some low hills
	Gaza Strip	flat to rolling, sand- and dune-covered coastal plain
	Georgia	largely mountainous with Great Caucasus Mountains in the north and Lesser Caucasus Mountains in the south; Kolkhet'is Dablobi (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
	Germany	lowlands in north, uplands in center, Bavarian Alps in south
	Ghana	mostly low plains with dissected plateau in south-central area
	Gibraltar	a narrow coastal lowland borders the Rock of Gibraltar
	Glorioso Islands	low and flat
	Greece	mostly mountains with ranges extending into the sea as peninsulas or chains of islands
	Greenland	flat to gradually sloping icecap covers all but a narrow, mountainous, barren, rocky coast
	Grenada	volcanic in origin with central mountains
	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
	Guam	volcanic origin, surrounded by coral reefs; relatively flat coralline limestone plateau (source of most fresh water), with steep coastal cliffs and narrow coastal plains in north, low hills in center, mountains in south
	Guatemala	mostly mountains with narrow coastal plains and rolling limestone plateau (Peten)
	Guernsey	mostly level with low hills in southwest
	Guinea	generally flat coastal plain, hilly to mountainous interior
	Guinea-Bissau	mostly low coastal plain rising to savanna in east
	Guyana	mostly rolling highlands; low coastal plain; savanna in south
	Haiti	mostly rough and mountainous
	Heard Island and McDonald Islands	Heard Island - 80% ice-covered, bleak and mountainous, dominated by a large massif (Big Ben) and an active volcano (Mawson Peak); McDonald Islands - small and rocky
	Holy See (Vatican City)	low hill
	Honduras	mostly mountains in interior, narrow coastal plains
	Hong Kong	hilly to mountainous with steep slopes; lowlands in north
	Howland Island	low-lying, nearly level, sandy, coral island surrounded by a narrow fringing reef; depressed central area
	Hungary	mostly flat to rolling plains; hills and low mountains on the Slovakian border
	Iceland	mostly plateau interspersed with mountain peaks, icefields; coast deeply indented by bays and fiords
	India	upland plain (Deccan Plateau) in south, flat to rolling plain along the Ganges, deserts in west, Himalayas in north
	Indian Ocean	surface dominated by counterclockwise gyre (broad, circular system of currents) in the southern Indian Ocean; unique reversal of surface currents in the northern Indian Ocean; low atmospheric pressure over southwest Asia from hot, rising, summer air results in the southwest monsoon and southwest-to-northeast winds and currents, while high pressure over northern Asia from cold, falling, winter air results in the northeast monsoon and northeast-to-southwest winds and currents; ocean floor is dominated by the Mid-Indian Ocean Ridge and subdivided by the Southeast Indian Ocean Ridge, Southwest Indian Ocean Ridge, and Ninetyeast Ridge
	Indonesia	mostly coastal lowlands; larger islands have interior mountains
	Iran	rugged, mountainous rim; high, central basin with deserts, mountains; small, discontinuous plains along both coasts
	Iraq	mostly broad plains; reedy marshes along Iranian border in south with large flooded areas; mountains along borders with Iran and Turkey
	Ireland	mostly level to rolling interior plain surrounded by rugged hills and low mountains; sea cliffs on west coast
	Isle of Man	hills in north and south bisected by central valley
	Israel	Negev desert in the south; low coastal plain; central mountains; Jordan Rift Valley
	Italy	mostly rugged and mountainous; some plains, coastal lowlands
	Jamaica	mostly mountains, with narrow, discontinuous coastal plain
	Jan Mayen	volcanic island, partly covered by glaciers
	Japan	mostly rugged and mountainous
	Jarvis Island	sandy, coral island surrounded by a narrow fringing reef
	Jersey	gently rolling plain with low, rugged hills along north coast
	Johnston Atoll	mostly flat
	Jordan	mostly desert plateau in east, highland area in west; Great Rift Valley separates East and West Banks of the Jordan River
	Juan de Nova Island	low and flat
	Kazakhstan	extends from the Volga to the Altai Mountains and from the plains in western Siberia to oases and desert in Central Asia
	Kenya	low plains rise to central highlands bisected by Great Rift Valley; fertile plateau in west
	Kingman Reef	low and nearly level
	Kiribati	mostly low-lying coral atolls surrounded by extensive reefs
	Korea, North	mostly hills and mountains separated by deep, narrow valleys; coastal plains wide in west, discontinuous in east
	Korea, South	mostly hills and mountains; wide coastal plains in west and south
	Kuwait	flat to slightly undulating desert plain
	Kyrgyzstan	peaks of Tien Shan and associated valleys and basins encompass entire nation
	Laos	mostly rugged mountains; some plains and plateaus
	Latvia	low plain
	Lebanon	narrow coastal plain; El Beqaa (Bekaa Valley) separates Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon Mountains
	Lesotho	mostly highland with plateaus, hills, and mountains
	Liberia	mostly flat to rolling coastal plains rising to rolling plateau and low mountains in northeast
	Libya	mostly barren, flat to undulating plains, plateaus, depressions
	Liechtenstein	mostly mountainous (Alps) with Rhine Valley in western third
	Lithuania	lowland, many scattered small lakes, fertile soil
	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
	Macau	generally flat
	Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of	mountainous territory covered with deep basins and valleys; three large lakes, each divided by a frontier line; country bisected by the Vardar River
	Madagascar	narrow coastal plain, high plateau and mountains in center
	Malawi	narrow elongated plateau with rolling plains, rounded hills, some mountains
	Malaysia	coastal plains rising to hills and mountains
	Maldives	flat, with white sandy beaches
	Mali	mostly flat to rolling northern plains covered by sand; savanna in south, rugged hills in northeast
	Malta	mostly low, rocky, flat to dissected plains; many coastal cliffs
	Marshall Islands	low coral limestone and sand islands
	Martinique	mountainous with indented coastline; dormant volcano
	Mauritania	mostly barren, flat plains of the Sahara; some central hills
	Mauritius	small coastal plain rising to discontinuous mountains encircling central plateau
	Mayotte	generally undulating, with deep ravines and ancient volcanic peaks
	Mexico	high, rugged mountains; low coastal plains; high plateaus; desert
	Micronesia, Federated States of	islands vary geologically from high mountainous islands to low, coral atolls; volcanic outcroppings on Pohnpei, Kosrae, and Chuuk
	Midway Islands	low, nearly level
	Moldova	rolling steppe, gradual slope south to Black Sea
	Monaco	hilly, rugged, rocky
	Mongolia	vast semidesert and desert plains, grassy steppe, mountains in west and southwest; Gobi Desert in south-central
	Montserrat	volcanic island, mostly mountainous, with small coastal lowland
	Morocco	northern coast and interior are mountainous with large areas of bordering plateaus, intermontane valleys, and rich coastal plains
	Mozambique	mostly coastal lowlands, uplands in center, high plateaus in northwest, mountains in west
	Namibia	mostly high plateau; Namib Desert along coast; Kalahari Desert in east
	Nauru	sandy beach rises to fertile ring around raised coral reefs with phosphate plateau in center
	Navassa Island	raised coral and limestone plateau, flat to undulating; ringed by vertical white cliffs (9 to 15 m high)
	Nepal	Terai or flat river plain of the Ganges in south, central hill region, rugged Himalayas in north
	Netherlands	mostly coastal lowland and reclaimed land (polders); some hills in southeast
	Netherlands Antilles	generally hilly, volcanic interiors
	New Caledonia	coastal plains with interior mountains
	New Zealand	predominately mountainous with some large coastal plains
	Nicaragua	extensive Atlantic coastal plains rising to central interior mountains; narrow Pacific coastal plain interrupted by volcanoes
	Niger	predominately desert plains and sand dunes; flat to rolling plains in south; hills in north
	Nigeria	southern lowlands merge into central hills and plateaus; mountains in southeast, plains in north
	Niue	steep limestone cliffs along coast, central plateau
	Norfolk Island	volcanic formation with mostly rolling plains
	Northern Mariana Islands	southern islands are limestone with level terraces and fringing coral reefs; northern islands are volcanic
	Norway	glaciated; mostly high plateaus and rugged mountains broken by fertile valleys; small, scattered plains; coastline deeply indented by fjords; arctic tundra in north
	Oman	central desert plain, rugged mountains in north and south
	Pacific Ocean	surface currents in the northern Pacific are dominated by a clockwise, warm-water gyre (broad circular system of currents) and in the southern Pacific by a counterclockwise, cool-water gyre; in the northern Pacific, sea ice forms in the Bering Sea and Sea of Okhotsk in winter; in the southern Pacific, sea ice from Antarctica reaches its northernmost extent in October; the ocean floor in the eastern Pacific is dominated by the East Pacific Rise, while the western Pacific is dissected by deep trenches, including the Mariana Trench, which is the world's deepest
	Pakistan	flat Indus plain in east; mountains in north and northwest; Balochistan plateau in west
	Palau	varying geologically from the high, mountainous main island of Babelthuap to low, coral islands usually fringed by large barrier reefs
	Palmyra Atoll	very low
	Panama	interior mostly steep, rugged mountains and dissected, upland plains; coastal areas largely plains and rolling hills
	Papua New Guinea	mostly mountains with coastal lowlands and rolling foothills
	Paracel Islands	mostly low and flat
	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
	Peru	western coastal plain (costa), high and rugged Andes in center (sierra), eastern lowland jungle of Amazon Basin (selva)
	Philippines	mostly mountains with narrow to extensive coastal lowlands
	Pitcairn Islands	rugged volcanic formation; rocky coastline with cliffs
	Poland	mostly flat plain; mountains along southern border
	Portugal	mountainous north of the Tagus River, rolling plains in south
	Puerto Rico	mostly mountains, with coastal plain belt in north; mountains precipitous to sea on west coast; sandy beaches along most coastal areas
	Qatar	mostly flat and barren desert covered with loose sand and gravel
	Reunion	mostly rugged and mountainous; fertile lowlands along coast
	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
	Russia	broad plain with low hills west of Urals; vast coniferous forest and tundra in Siberia; uplands and mountains along southern border regions
	Rwanda	mostly grassy uplands and hills; relief is mountainous with altitude declining from west to east
	Saint Helena	Saint Helena - rugged, volcanic; small scattered plateaus and plains note: the other islands of the group have a volcanic origin
	Saint Kitts and Nevis	volcanic with mountainous interiors
	Saint Lucia	volcanic and mountainous with some broad, fertile valleys
	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	mostly barren rock
	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	volcanic, mountainous
	Samoa	narrow coastal plain with volcanic, rocky, rugged mountains in interior
	San Marino	rugged mountains
	Sao Tome and Principe	volcanic, mountainous
	Saudi Arabia	mostly uninhabited, sandy desert
	Senegal	generally low, rolling, plains rising to foothills in southeast
	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
	Seychelles	Mahe Group is granitic, narrow coastal strip, rocky, hilly; others are coral, flat, elevated reefs
	Sierra Leone	coastal belt of mangrove swamps, wooded hill country, upland plateau, mountains in east
	Singapore	lowland; gently undulating central plateau contains water catchment area and nature preserve
	Slovakia	rugged mountains in the central and northern part and lowlands in the south
	Slovenia	a short coastal strip on the Adriatic, an alpine mountain region adjacent to Italy and Austria, mixed mountains and valleys with numerous rivers to the east
	Solomon Islands	mostly rugged mountains with some low coral atolls
	Somalia	mostly flat to undulating plateau rising to hills in north
	South Africa	vast interior plateau rimmed by rugged hills and narrow coastal plain
	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
	Southern Ocean	the Southern Ocean is deep, 4,000 to 5,000 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 (the global mean is 133 meters); the Antarctic icepack grows from an average minimum of 2.6 million square kilometers in March to about 18.8 million square kilometers in September, better than a sixfold increase in area; the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (21,000 km in length) moves perpetually eastward; it is the world's largest ocean current, transporting 130 million cubic meters of water per second - 100 times the flow of all the world's rivers
	Spain	large, flat to dissected plateau surrounded by rugged hills; Pyrenees in north
	Spratly Islands	flat
	Sri Lanka	mostly low, flat to rolling plain; mountains in south-central interior
	Sudan	generally flat, featureless plain; mountains in far south, northeast and west; desert dominates the north
	Suriname	mostly rolling hills; narrow coastal plain with swamps
	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
	Swaziland	mostly mountains and hills; some moderately sloping plains
	Sweden	mostly flat or gently rolling lowlands; mountains in west
	Switzerland	mostly mountains (Alps in south, Jura in northwest) with a central plateau of rolling hills, plains, and large lakes
	Syria	primarily semiarid and desert plateau; narrow coastal plain; mountains in west
	Taiwan	eastern two-thirds mostly rugged mountains; flat to gently rolling plains in west
	Tajikistan	Pamir and Alay Mountains dominate landscape; western Fergana Valley in north, Kofarnihon and Vakhsh Valleys in southwest
	Tanzania	plains along coast; central plateau; highlands in north, south
	Thailand	central plain; Khorat Plateau in the east; mountains elsewhere
	Togo	gently rolling savanna in north; central hills; southern plateau; low coastal plain with extensive lagoons and marshes
	Tokelau	low-lying coral atolls enclosing large lagoons
	Tonga	most islands have limestone base formed from uplifted coral formation; others have limestone overlying volcanic base
	Trinidad and Tobago	mostly plains with some hills and low mountains
	Tromelin Island	low, flat, and sandy; likely volcanic
	Tunisia	mountains in north; hot, dry central plain; semiarid south merges into the Sahara
	Turkey	high central plateau (Anatolia); narrow coastal plain; several mountain ranges
	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
	Turks and Caicos Islands	low, flat limestone; extensive marshes and mangrove swamps
	Tuvalu	very low-lying and narrow coral atolls
	Uganda	mostly plateau with rim of mountains
	Ukraine	most of Ukraine consists of fertile plains (steppes) and plateaus, mountains being found only in the west (the Carpathians), and in the Crimean Peninsula in the extreme south
	United Arab Emirates	flat, barren coastal plain merging into rolling sand dunes of vast desert wasteland; mountains in east
	United Kingdom	mostly rugged hills and low mountains; level to rolling plains in east and southeast
	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
	Uruguay	mostly rolling plains and low hills; fertile coastal lowland
	Uzbekistan	mostly flat-to-rolling sandy desert with dunes; broad, flat intensely irrigated river valleys along course of Amu Darya, Syr Darya (Sirdaryo), and Zarafshon; Fergana Valley in east surrounded by mountainous Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan; shrinking Aral Sea in west
	Vanuatu	mostly mountains of volcanic origin; narrow coastal plains
	Venezuela	Andes Mountains and Maracaibo Lowlands in northwest; central plains (llanos); Guiana Highlands in southeast
	Vietnam	low, flat delta in south and north; central highlands; hilly, mountainous in far north and northwest
	Virgin Islands	mostly hilly to rugged and mountainous with little level land
	Wake Island	atoll of three coral islands built up on an underwater volcano; central lagoon is former crater, islands are part of the rim
	Wallis and Futuna	volcanic origin; low hills
	West Bank	mostly rugged dissected upland, some vegetation in west, but barren in east
	Western Sahara	mostly low, flat desert with large areas of rocky or sandy surfaces rising to small mountains in south and northeast
	World	the greatest ocean depth is the Mariana Trench at 10,924 m in the Pacific Ocean
	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
	Zambia	mostly high plateau with some hills and mountains
	Zimbabwe	mostly high plateau with higher central plateau (high veld); mountains in east