word | | Terrain |
| coastal | Mexico | high, rugged mountains; low coastal plains; high plateaus; desert |
| coastal | Montenegro | highly indented coastline with narrow coastal plain backed by rugged high limestone mountains and plateaus |
| coastal | Montserrat | volcanic island, mostly mountainous, with small coastal lowland |
| coastal | Morocco | northern coast and interior are mountainous with large areas of bordering plateaus, intermontane valleys, and rich coastal plains |
| coastal | Mozambique | mostly coastal lowlands, uplands in center, high plateaus in northwest, mountains in west |
| coastal | Netherlands | mostly coastal lowland and reclaimed land (polders); some hills in southeast |
| coastal | New Caledonia | coastal plains with interior mountains |
| coastal | New Zealand | predominately mountainous with some large coastal plains |
| coastal | Nicaragua | extensive Atlantic coastal plains rising to central interior mountains; narrow Pacific coastal plain interrupted by volcanoes |
| coastal | Panama | interior mostly steep, rugged mountains and dissected, upland plains; coastal areas largely plains and rolling hills |
| coastal | Papua New Guinea | mostly mountains with coastal lowlands and rolling foothills |
| coastal | Peru | western coastal plain (costa), high and rugged Andes in center (sierra), eastern lowland jungle of Amazon Basin (selva) |
| coastal | Philippines | mostly mountains with narrow to extensive coastal lowlands |
| coastal | Puerto Rico | mostly mountains with coastal plain belt in north; mountains precipitous to sea on west coast; sandy beaches along most coastal areas |
| coastal | Saint Helena | ... Cunha: sheer cliffs line the coastline of the nearly circular island; the flanks of the central volcanic peak are deeply dissected; narrow coastal plain lies between The Peak and the coastal cliffs |
| coastal | Samoa | two main islands (Savaii, Upolu) and several smaller islands and uninhabited islets; narrow coastal plain with volcanic, rocky, rugged mountains in interior |
| coastal | Seychelles | Mahe Group is granitic, narrow coastal strip, rocky, hilly; others are coral, flat, elevated reefs |
| coastal | Sierra Leone | coastal belt of mangrove swamps, wooded hill country, upland plateau, mountains in east |
| coastal | 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 |
| coastal | South Africa | vast interior plateau rimmed by rugged hills and narrow coastal plain |
| coastal | Suriname | mostly rolling hills; narrow coastal plain with swamps |
| coastal | Syria | primarily semiarid and desert plateau; narrow coastal plain; mountains in west |
| coastal | Togo | gently rolling savanna in north; central hills; southern plateau; low coastal plain with extensive lagoons and marshes |
| coastal | Turkey | high central plateau (Anatolia); narrow coastal plain; several mountain ranges |
| coastal | United Arab Emirates | flat, barren coastal plain merging into rolling sand dunes of vast desert wasteland; mountains in east |
| coastal | Uruguay | mostly rolling plains and low hills; fertile coastal lowland |
| coastal | Vanuatu | mostly mountainous islands of volcanic origin; narrow coastal plains |
| coastal | 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 |
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