word | | Terrain |
| plateau | Syria | primarily semiarid and desert plateau; narrow coastal plain; mountains in west |
| plateau | Tanzania | plains along coast; central plateau; highlands in north, south |
| Plateau | Thailand | central plain; Khorat Plateau in the east; mountains elsewhere |
| plateau | Togo | gently rolling savanna in north; central hills; southern plateau; low coastal plain with extensive lagoons and marshes |
| plateau | Turkey | high central plateau (Anatolia); narrow coastal plain; several mountain ranges |
| plateau | Uganda | mostly plateau with rim of mountains |
| plateau | Zambia | mostly high plateau with some hills and mountains |
| plateau | Zimbabwe | mostly high plateau with higher central plateau (high veld); mountains in east |
| plateaus | China | mostly mountains, high plateaus, deserts in west; plains, deltas, and hills in east |
| plateaus | 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 |
| plateaus | Laos | mostly rugged mountains; some plains and plateaus |
| plateaus | Lesotho | mostly highland with plateaus, hills, and mountains |
| plateaus | Libya | mostly barren, flat to undulating plains, plateaus, depressions |
| plateaus | Mexico | high, rugged mountains; low coastal plains; high plateaus; desert |
| plateaus | Montenegro | highly indented coastline with narrow coastal plain backed by rugged high limestone mountains and plateaus |
| plateaus | Morocco | northern coast and interior are mountainous with large areas of bordering plateaus, intermontane valleys, and rich coastal plains |
| plateaus | Mozambique | mostly coastal lowlands, uplands in center, high plateaus in northwest, mountains in west |
| plateaus | Nigeria | southern lowlands merge into central hills and plateaus; mountains in southeast, plains in north |
| plateaus | Norway | glaciated; mostly high plateaus and rugged mountains broken by fertile valleys; small, scattered plains; coastline deeply indented by fjords; arctic tundra in north |
| plateaus | Saint Helena | ... from volcanic activity associated with the Atlantic Mid-Ocean Ridge Saint Helena: rugged, volcanic; small scattered plateaus and plains Ascension: surface covered by lava flows and cinder cones of 44 dormant volcanoes ... |
| plateaus | Ukraine | most of Ukraine consists of fertile plains (steppes) and plateaus, mountains being found only in the west (the Carpathians), and in the Crimean Peninsula in the extreme south |
| Pohnpei | Micronesia, Federated States of | islands vary geologically from high mountainous islands to low, coral atolls; volcanic outcroppings on Pohnpei, Kosrae, and Chuuk |
| polar | 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 ... |
| polders | Netherlands | mostly coastal lowland and reclaimed land (polders); some hills in southeast |
| portions | Atlantic Ocean | surface usually covered with sea ice in Labrador Sea, Denmark Strait, and coastal portions of the Baltic Sea from October to June; clockwise warm-water gyre (broad, circular system of currents) in ... |
| precipitous | Puerto Rico | mostly mountains with coastal plain belt in north; mountains precipitous to sea on west coast; sandy beaches along most coastal areas |
| predominantly | Botswana | predominantly flat to gently rolling tableland; Kalahari Desert in southwest |
| predominately | New Zealand | predominately mountainous with some large coastal plains |
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