word | | Terrain |
| plateau | Christmas Island | steep cliffs along coast rise abruptly to central plateau |
| plateau | Congo, Democratic Republic of the | vast central basin is a low-lying plateau; mountains in east |
| plateau | Congo, Republic of the | coastal plain, southern basin, central plateau, northern basin |
| plateau | Djibouti | coastal plain and plateau separated by central mountains |
| plateau | Egypt | vast desert plateau interrupted by Nile valley and delta |
| plateau | El Salvador | mostly mountains with narrow coastal belt and central plateau |
| plateau | Ethiopia | high plateau with central mountain range divided by Great Rift Valley |
| plateau | French Southern and Antarctic Lands | ... a volcanic island with steep coastal cliffs; the center floor of the volcano is a large plateau Ile Saint-Paul (Ile Amsterdam et Ile Saint-Paul): triangular in shape, the island is ... |
| plateau | Ghana | mostly low plains with dissected plateau in south-central area |
| plateau | Guam | volcanic 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 ... |
| plateau | Guatemala | mostly mountains with narrow coastal plains and rolling limestone plateau |
| plateau | Iceland | mostly plateau interspersed with mountain peaks, icefields; coast deeply indented by bays and fiords |
| Plateau | India | upland plain (Deccan Plateau) in south, flat to rolling plain along the Ganges, deserts in west, Himalayas in north |
| plateau | Jordan | mostly desert plateau in east, highland area in west; Great Rift Valley separates East and West Banks of the Jordan River |
| plateau | Kenya | low plains rise to central highlands bisected by Great Rift Valley; fertile plateau in west |
| plateau | Liberia | mostly flat to rolling coastal plains rising to rolling plateau and low mountains in northeast |
| plateau | Madagascar | narrow coastal plain, high plateau and mountains in center |
| plateau | Malawi | narrow elongated plateau with rolling plains, rounded hills, some mountains |
| plateau | Mauritius | small coastal plain rising to discontinuous mountains encircling central plateau |
| plateau | Namibia | mostly high plateau; Namib Desert along coast; Kalahari Desert in east |
| plateau | Nauru | sandy beach rises to fertile ring around raised coral reefs with phosphate plateau in center |
| plateau | Navassa Island | raised coral and limestone plateau, flat to undulating; ringed by vertical white cliffs (9 to 15 m high) |
| plateau | Niue | steep limestone cliffs along coast, central plateau |
| plateau | Pakistan | flat Indus plain in east; mountains in north and northwest; Balochistan plateau in west |
| plateau | Sierra Leone | coastal belt of mangrove swamps, wooded hill country, upland plateau, mountains in east |
| plateau | Singapore | lowland; gently undulating central plateau contains water catchment area and nature preserve |
| plateau | Somalia | mostly flat to undulating plateau rising to hills in north |
| plateau | South Africa | vast interior plateau rimmed by rugged hills and narrow coastal plain |
| plateau | Spain | large, flat to dissected plateau surrounded by rugged hills; Pyrenees in north |
| plateau | Switzerland | mostly mountains (Alps in south, Jura in northwest) with a central plateau of rolling hills, plains, and large lakes |
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