word | | Geography - note |
| active | Cameroon | ... Africa; throughout the country there are areas of thermal springs and indications of current or prior volcanic activity; Mount Cameroon, the highest mountain in Sub-Saharan west Africa, is an active volcano |
| active | Costa Rica | four volcanoes, two of them active, rise near the capital of San Jose in the center of the country; one of the volcanoes, Irazu, erupted destructively in 1963-65 |
| active | Dominica | ... extensive natural park system; the most mountainous of the Lesser Antilles, its volcanic peaks are cones of lava craters and include Boiling Lake, the second-largest, thermally active lake in the world |
| active | Ecuador | Cotopaxi in Andes is highest active volcano in world |
| active | Heard Island and McDonald Islands | ... 2,745 meters, it is taller than Mt. Kosciuszko in Australia proper), and one of only two active volcanoes located in Australian territory, the other being McDonald Island; in 1992, McDonald Island broke ... |
| active | Vanuatu | a Y-shaped chain of four main islands and 80 smaller islands; several of the islands have active volcanoes |
| active | Yemen | strategic location on Bab el Mandeb, the strait linking the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, one of world's most active shipping lanes |
| activity | Cameroon | ... Africa; throughout the country there are areas of thermal springs and indications of current or prior volcanic activity; Mount Cameroon, the highest mountain in Sub-Saharan west Africa, is an active volcano |
| Aden | Yemen | strategic location on Bab el Mandeb, the strait linking the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, one of world's most active shipping lanes |
| adjacent | Bahamas, The | strategic location adjacent to US and Cuba; extensive island chain of which 30 are inhabited |
| adjacent | Norway | about two-thirds mountains; some 50,000 islands off its much-indented coastline; strategic location adjacent to sea lanes and air routes in North Atlantic; one of the most rugged and longest coastlines ... |
| adjacent | Oman | strategic location on Musandam Peninsula adjacent to Strait of Hormuz, a vital transit point for world crude oil |
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