word | | Terrain |
| predominately | Niger | predominately desert plains and sand dunes; flat to rolling plains in south; hills in north |
| preserve | Singapore | lowland; gently undulating central plateau contains water catchment area and nature preserve |
| pressure | Arctic Ocean | ... 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 Gyral Stream ... |
| pressure | Indian Ocean | ... the southern Indian Ocean; unique reversal of surface currents in the northern Indian Ocean; low atmospheric pressure over southwest Asia from hot, rising, summer air results in the southwest monsoon and southwest ... |
| primarily | Syria | primarily semiarid and desert plateau; narrow coastal plain; mountains in west |
| Pyrenees | France | ... 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 and ... |
| Pyrenees | Spain | large, flat to dissected plateau surrounded by rugged hills; Pyrenees in north |
| Qarabag | Azerbaijan | ... Kura-Araks Lowland) (much of it below sea level) with Great Caucasus Mountains to the north, Qarabag Yaylasi (Karabakh Upland) in west; Baku lies on Abseron Yasaqligi (Apsheron Peninsula) that juts into ... |
| raised | Nauru | sandy beach rises to fertile ring around raised coral reefs with phosphate plateau in center |
| raised | Navassa Island | raised coral and limestone plateau, flat to undulating; ringed by vertical white cliffs (9 to 15 m high) |
| range | Ethiopia | high plateau with central mountain range divided by Great Rift Valley |
| ranges | Antarctica | ... continental ice sheet and 2% barren rock, with average elevations between 2,000 and 4,000 meters; mountain ranges up to nearly 5,000 meters; ice-free coastal areas include parts of southern Victoria Land ... |
| ranges | Greece | mostly mountains with ranges extending into the sea as peninsulas or chains of islands |
| ranges | Kosovo | flat fluvial basin with an elevation of 400-700 m above sea level surrounded by several high mountain ranges with elevations of 2,000 to 2,500 m |
| ranges | Serbia | extremely varied; to the north, rich fertile plains; to the east, limestone ranges and basins; to the southeast, ancient mountains and hills |
| ranges | Turkey | high central plateau (Anatolia); narrow coastal plain; several mountain ranges |
| ravines | Mayotte | generally undulating, with deep ravines and ancient volcanic peaks |
| reaches | Pacific Ocean | ... Bering Sea and Sea of Okhotsk in winter; in the southern Pacific, sea ice from Antarctica reaches its northernmost extent in October; the ocean floor in the eastern Pacific is dominated by ... |
| reclaimed | Netherlands | mostly coastal lowland and reclaimed land (polders); some hills in southeast |
| reedy | Iraq | mostly broad plains; reedy marshes along Iranian border in south with large flooded areas; mountains along borders with Iran and Turkey |
| reefs | Cayman Islands | low-lying limestone base surrounded by coral reefs |
| reefs | Coral Sea Islands | sand and coral reefs and islands (or cays) |
| reefs | French Polynesia | mixture of rugged high islands and low islands with reefs |
| reefs | 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 ... |
| reefs | Kiribati | mostly low-lying coral atolls surrounded by extensive reefs |
| reefs | Nauru | sandy beach rises to fertile ring around raised coral reefs with phosphate plateau in center |
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