word | | Terrain |
| plain | United States | vast central plain, mountains in west, hills and low mountains in east; rugged mountains and broad river valleys in Alaska; rugged, volcanic topography in Hawaii |
| plain | 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 |
| plains | Afghanistan | mostly rugged mountains; plains in north and southwest |
| plains | Albania | mostly mountains and hills; small plains along coast |
| plains | American Samoa | five volcanic islands with rugged peaks and limited coastal plains, two coral atolls (Rose Island, Swains Island) |
| plains | Argentina | rich plains of the Pampas in northern half, flat to rolling plateau of Patagonia in south, rugged Andes along western border |
| plains | Belgium | flat coastal plains in northwest, central rolling hills, rugged mountains of Ardennes Forest in southeast |
| plains | Bolivia | rugged Andes Mountains with a highland plateau (Altiplano), hills, lowland plains of the Amazon Basin |
| plains | Brazil | mostly flat to rolling lowlands in north; some plains, hills, mountains, and narrow coastal belt |
| plains | Burkina Faso | mostly flat to dissected, undulating plains; hills in west and southeast |
| plains | Burundi | hilly and mountainous, dropping to a plateau in east, some plains |
| plains | Cambodia | mostly low, flat plains; mountains in southwest and north |
| plains | Cameroon | diverse, with coastal plain in southwest, dissected plateau in center, mountains in west, plains in north |
| plains | Canada | mostly plains with mountains in west and lowlands in southeast |
| plains | Chad | broad, arid plains in center, desert in north, mountains in northwest, lowlands in south |
| plains | China | mostly mountains, high plateaus, deserts in west; plains, deltas, and hills in east |
| plains | Colombia | flat coastal lowlands, central highlands, high Andes Mountains, eastern lowland plains |
| plains | Costa Rica | coastal plains separated by rugged mountains including over 100 volcanic cones, of which several are major volcanoes |
| plains | Cote d'Ivoire | mostly flat to undulating plains; mountains in northwest |
| plains | Croatia | geographically diverse; flat plains along Hungarian border, low mountains and highlands near Adriatic coastline and islands |
| plains | Cuba | mostly flat to rolling plains, with rugged hills and mountains in the southeast |
| plains | Cyprus | central plain with mountains to north and south; scattered but significant plains along southern coast |
| plains | Czech Republic | Bohemia in the west consists of rolling plains, hills, and plateaus surrounded by low mountains; Moravia in the east consists of very hilly country |
| plains | Denmark | low and flat to gently rolling plains |
| plains | Equatorial Guinea | coastal plains rise to interior hills; islands are volcanic |
| plains | 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 |
| plains | Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) | rocky, hilly, mountainous with some boggy, undulating plains |
| plains | Finland | mostly low, flat to rolling plains interspersed with lakes and low hills |
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