word | | Terrain |
| deserts | China | mostly mountains, high plateaus, deserts in west; plains, deltas, and hills in east |
| deserts | India | upland plain (Deccan Plateau) in south, flat to rolling plain along the Ganges, deserts in west, Himalayas in north |
| deserts | Iran | rugged, mountainous rim; high, central basin with deserts, mountains; small, discontinuous plains along both coasts |
| developed | United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges | low and nearly level sandy coral islands with narrow fringing reefs that have developed at the top of submerged volcanic mountains, which in most cases rise steeply from the ocean floor |
| discontinuous | Algeria | mostly high plateau and desert; some mountains; narrow, discontinuous coastal plain |
| discontinuous | Iran | rugged, mountainous rim; high, central basin with deserts, mountains; small, discontinuous plains along both coasts |
| discontinuous | Jamaica | mostly mountains, with narrow, discontinuous coastal plain |
| discontinuous | Korea, North | mostly hills and mountains separated by deep, narrow valleys; coastal plains wide in west, discontinuous in east |
| discontinuous | Mauritius | small coastal plain rising to discontinuous mountains encircling central plateau |
| dissected | Andorra | rugged mountains dissected by narrow valleys |
| dissected | Burkina Faso | mostly flat to dissected, undulating plains; hills in west and southeast |
| dissected | Cameroon | diverse, with coastal plain in southwest, dissected plateau in center, mountains in west, plains in north |
| dissected | Ghana | mostly low plains with dissected plateau in south-central area |
| dissected | Malta | mostly low, rocky, flat to dissected plains; many coastal cliffs |
| dissected | Pacific Ocean | ... 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 |
| dissected | Panama | interior mostly steep, rugged mountains and dissected, upland plains; coastal areas largely plains and rolling hills |
| dissected | 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 |
| dissected | Spain | large, flat to dissected plateau surrounded by rugged hills; Pyrenees in north |
| dissected | West Bank | mostly rugged dissected upland, some vegetation in west, but barren in east |
| dissected | 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 |
| diverse | Cameroon | diverse, with coastal plain in southwest, dissected plateau in center, mountains in west, plains in north |
| diverse | Croatia | geographically diverse; flat plains along Hungarian border, low mountains and highlands near Adriatic coastline and islands |
| divided | Ethiopia | high plateau with central mountain range divided by Great Rift Valley |
| divided | French Southern and Antarctic Lands | ... side; has active thermal springs Iles Crozet: a large archipelago formed from the Crozet Plateau is divided into two groups of islands Iles Kerguelen: the interior of the large island of Ile ... |
| divided | Macedonia | mountainous territory covered with deep basins and valleys; three large lakes, each divided by a frontier line; country bisected by the Vardar River |
| dominate | Tajikistan | Pamir and Alay Mountains dominate landscape; western Fergana Valley in north, Kofarnihon and Vakhsh Valleys in southwest |
| dominated | Atlantic Ocean | ... 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 |
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