word | | Terrain |
| Current | Southern Ocean | ... 18.8 million sq km 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 ... |
| currents | Atlantic Ocean | ... 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 ... |
| currents | 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 ... |
| currents | 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 ... |
| Dablobi | Georgia | ... 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 ... |
| Darya | Uzbekistan | ... 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 ... |
| Deccan | India | upland plain (Deccan Plateau) in south, flat to rolling plain along the Ganges, deserts in west, Himalayas in north |
| declining | Rwanda | mostly grassy uplands and hills; relief is mountainous with altitude declining from west to east |
| deep | Korea, North | mostly hills and mountains separated by deep, narrow valleys; coastal plains wide in west, discontinuous in east |
| deep | Macedonia | mountainous territory covered with deep basins and valleys; three large lakes, each divided by a frontier line; country bisected by the Vardar River |
| deep | Mayotte | generally undulating, with deep ravines and ancient volcanic peaks |
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