word | | Terrain |
| limestone | Northern Mariana Islands | southern islands are limestone with level terraces and fringing coral reefs; northern islands are volcanic |
| limestone | Serbia | extremely varied; to the north, rich fertile plains; to the east, limestone ranges and basins; to the southeast, ancient mountains and hills |
| limestone | Tonga | most islands have limestone base formed from uplifted coral formation; others have limestone overlying volcanic base |
| limestone | Turks and Caicos Islands | low, flat limestone; extensive marshes and mangrove swamps |
| limited | American Samoa | five volcanic islands with rugged peaks and limited coastal plains, two coral atolls (Rose Island, Swains Island) |
| limited | Southern Ocean | ... the Southern Ocean is deep, 4,000 to 5,000 m over most of its extent with only limited areas of shallow water; the Antarctic continental shelf is generally narrow and unusually deep, its ... |
| line | Arctic Ocean | ... be three times that thickness; clockwise drift pattern in the Beaufort Gyral Stream, but nearly straight-line movement from the New Siberian Islands (Russia) to Denmark Strait (between Greenland and Iceland); the ... |
| line | Macedonia | mountainous territory covered with deep basins and valleys; three large lakes, each divided by a frontier line; country bisected by the Vardar River |
| line | Saint Helena | ... cinder cones of 44 dormant volcanoes; ground rises to the east Tristan da Cunha: sheer cliffs line the coastline of the nearly circular island; the flanks of the central volcanic peak are ... |
| llanos | Venezuela | Andes Mountains and Maracaibo Lowlands in northwest; central plains (llanos); Guiana Highlands in southeast |
| Lomonosov | Arctic Ocean | ... landmasses; the ocean floor is about 50% continental shelf (highest percentage of any ocean) with the remainder a central basin interrupted by three submarine ridges (Alpha Cordillera, Nansen Cordillera, and Lomonosov Ridge |
| loose | Qatar | mostly flat and barren desert covered with loose sand and gravel |
| Lowland | Azerbaijan | large, flat Kur-Araz Ovaligi (Kura-Araks Lowland) (much of it below sea level) with Great Caucasus Mountains to the north, Qarabag Yaylasi (Karabakh Upland) in west; Baku lies on Abseron Yasaqligi ... |
| lowland | Bolivia | rugged Andes Mountains with a highland plateau (Altiplano), hills, lowland plains of the Amazon Basin |
| lowland | Brunei | flat coastal plain rises to mountains in east; hilly lowland in west |
| lowland | Colombia | flat coastal lowlands, central highlands, high Andes Mountains, eastern lowland plains |
| Lowland | Georgia | ... 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 east; good ... |
| lowland | Gibraltar | a narrow coastal lowland borders the Rock of Gibraltar |
| lowland | Lithuania | lowland, many scattered small lakes, fertile soil |
| lowland | Montserrat | volcanic island, mostly mountainous, with small coastal lowland |
| lowland | Netherlands | mostly coastal lowland and reclaimed land (polders); some hills in southeast |
| lowland | Peru | western coastal plain (costa), high and rugged Andes in center (sierra), eastern lowland jungle of Amazon Basin (selva) |
| lowland | Singapore | lowland; gently undulating central plateau contains water catchment area and nature preserve |
| lowland | Uruguay | mostly rolling plains and low hills; fertile coastal lowland |
| lowlands | Brazil | mostly flat to rolling lowlands in north; some plains, hills, mountains, and narrow coastal belt |
| lowlands | Bulgaria | mostly mountains with lowlands in north and southeast |
| lowlands | Burma | central lowlands ringed by steep, rugged highlands |
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