word | | Terrain |
| plains | France | metropolitan France: mostly flat plains or gently rolling hills in north and west; remainder is mountainous, especially Pyrenees in south, Alps in east French Guiana: low-lying coastal plains rising to hills ... |
| plains | French Southern and Antarctic Lands | ... large island of Ile Kerguelen is composed of rugged terrain of high mountains, hills, valleys, and plains with a number of peninsulas stretching off its coasts Bassas da India (Iles Eparses): atoll ... |
| plains | Georgia | ... the south; Kolkhet'is Dablobi (Kolkhida Lowland) opens to the Black Sea in the west; Mtkvari River Basin in the east; good soils in river valley flood plains, foothills of Kolkhida Lowland |
| plains | Ghana | mostly low plains with dissected plateau in south-central area |
| plains | Guam | ... origin, surrounded by coral reefs; relatively flat coralline limestone plateau (source of most fresh water), with steep coastal cliffs and narrow coastal plains in north, low hills in center, mountains in south |
| plains | Guatemala | mostly mountains with narrow coastal plains and rolling limestone plateau |
| plains | Honduras | mostly mountains in interior, narrow coastal plains |
| plains | Hungary | mostly flat to rolling plains; hills and low mountains on the Slovakian border |
| plains | Iran | rugged, mountainous rim; high, central basin with deserts, mountains; small, discontinuous plains along both coasts |
| plains | Iraq | mostly broad plains; reedy marshes along Iranian border in south with large flooded areas; mountains along borders with Iran and Turkey |
| plains | Italy | mostly rugged and mountainous; some plains, coastal lowlands |
| plains | Kazakhstan | extends from the Volga to the Altai Mountains and from the plains in western Siberia to oases and desert in Central Asia |
| plains | Kenya | low plains rise to central highlands bisected by Great Rift Valley; fertile plateau in west |
| plains | Korea, North | mostly hills and mountains separated by deep, narrow valleys; coastal plains wide in west, discontinuous in east |
| plains | Korea, South | mostly hills and mountains; wide coastal plains in west and south |
| plains | Laos | mostly rugged mountains; some plains and plateaus |
| plains | Liberia | mostly flat to rolling coastal plains rising to rolling plateau and low mountains in northeast |
| plains | Libya | mostly barren, flat to undulating plains, plateaus, depressions |
| plains | Malawi | narrow elongated plateau with rolling plains, rounded hills, some mountains |
| plains | Malaysia | coastal plains rising to hills and mountains |
| plains | Mali | mostly flat to rolling northern plains covered by sand; savanna in south, rugged hills in northeast |
| plains | Malta | mostly low, rocky, flat to dissected plains; many coastal cliffs |
| plains | Mauritania | mostly barren, flat plains of the Sahara; some central hills |
| plains | Mexico | high, rugged mountains; low coastal plains; high plateaus; desert |
| plains | Mongolia | vast semidesert and desert plains, grassy steppe, mountains in west and southwest; Gobi Desert in south-central |
| plains | Morocco | northern coast and interior are mountainous with large areas of bordering plateaus, intermontane valleys, and rich coastal plains |
| plains | New Caledonia | coastal plains with interior mountains |
| plains | New Zealand | predominately mountainous with some large coastal plains |
| plains | Nicaragua | extensive Atlantic coastal plains rising to central interior mountains; narrow Pacific coastal plain interrupted by volcanoes |