word | | Terrain |
| deserts | Iran | rugged, mountainous rim; high, central basin with deserts, mountains; small, discontinuous plains along both coasts |
| deserts | Kazakhstan | ... the Volga in the west to the Altai Mountains in the east and from the plains of western Siberia in the north to oases and deserts of Central Asia in the south |
| 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 |
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