word | | Terrain |
| peninsulas | Greece | mostly mountains with ranges extending into the sea as peninsulas or chains of islands |
| percentage | Arctic Ocean | ... winter and extends to the encircling 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 ... |
| perennial | Arctic Ocean | central surface covered by a perennial drifting polar icepack that, on average, is about 3 meters thick, although pressure ridges may be three times that thickness; clockwise drift pattern in the Beaufort ... |
| perpetually | Southern Ocean | ... 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, transporting 130 million cubic meters of ... |
| phosphate | Nauru | sandy beach rises to fertile ring around raised coral reefs with phosphate plateau in center |
| plain | Algeria | mostly high plateau and desert; some mountains; narrow, discontinuous coastal plain |
| plain | Angola | narrow coastal plain rises abruptly to vast interior plateau |
| plain | Australia | mostly low plateau with deserts; fertile plain in southeast |
| plain | Bahrain | mostly low desert plain rising gently to low central escarpment |
| plain | Bangladesh | mostly flat alluvial plain; hilly in southeast |
| plain | Belize | flat, swampy coastal plain; low mountains in south |
| plain | Benin | mostly flat to undulating plain; some hills and low mountains |
| plain | Brunei | flat coastal plain rises to mountains in east; hilly lowland in west |
| plain | Cameroon | diverse, with coastal plain in southwest, dissected plateau in center, mountains in west, plains in north |
| plain | Congo, Republic of the | coastal plain, southern basin, central plateau, northern basin |
| plain | Cyprus | central plain with mountains to north and south; scattered but significant plains along southern coast |
| plain | Djibouti | coastal plain and plateau separated by central mountains |
| plain | Ecuador | coastal plain (costa), inter-Andean central highlands (sierra), and flat to rolling eastern jungle (oriente) |
| plain | Eritrea | ... by extension of Ethiopian north-south trending highlands, descending on the east to a coastal desert plain, on the northwest to hilly terrain and on the southwest to flat-to-rolling plains |
| plain | Gabon | narrow coastal plain; hilly interior; savanna in east and south |
| plain | Gambia, The | flood plain of the Gambia River flanked by some low hills |
| plain | Gaza Strip | flat to rolling, sand- and dune-covered coastal plain |
| plain | Guinea | generally flat coastal plain, hilly to mountainous interior |
| plain | Guinea-Bissau | mostly low coastal plain rising to savanna in east |
| plain | Guyana | mostly rolling highlands; low coastal plain; savanna in south |
| plain | India | upland plain (Deccan Plateau) in south, flat to rolling plain along the Ganges, deserts in west, Himalayas in north |
| plain | Ireland | mostly level to rolling interior plain surrounded by rugged hills and low mountains; sea cliffs on west coast |
| plain | Israel | Negev desert in the south; low coastal plain; central mountains; Jordan Rift Valley |
| plain | Jamaica | mostly mountains, with narrow, discontinuous coastal plain |
| plain | Jersey | gently rolling plain with low, rugged hills along north coast |
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