word | | Terrain |
| separated | Costa Rica | coastal plains separated by rugged mountains including over 100 volcanic cones, of which several are major volcanoes |
| separated | Djibouti | coastal plain and plateau separated by central mountains |
| separated | Korea, North | mostly hills and mountains separated by deep, narrow valleys; coastal plains wide in west, discontinuous in east |
| separated | Romania | central Transylvanian Basin is separated from the Plain of Moldavia on the east by the Carpathian Mountains and separated from the Walachian Plain on the south by the Transylvanian Alps |
| separates | Jordan | mostly desert plateau in east, highland area in west; Great Rift Valley separates East and West Banks of the Jordan River |
| separates | Lebanon | narrow coastal plain; El Beqaa (Bekaa Valley) separates Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon Mountains |
| September | Southern Ocean | ... average minimum of 2.6 million sq km in March to about 18.8 million sq km in September, better than a sixfold increase in area; the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (21,000 km in length ... |
| seven | France | ... is volcanic in origin with interior mountains; Grande-Terre is low limestone formation; most of the seven other islands are volcanic in origin Martinique: mountainous with indented coastline; dormant volcano Reunion: mostly ... |
| shallow | French Southern and Antarctic Lands | ... of peninsulas stretching off its coasts Bassas da India (Iles Eparses): atoll, awash at high tide; shallow (15 m) lagoon Europa Island, Glorioso Islands, Juan de Nova Island: low, flat, and sandy ... |
| shallow | Luxembourg | mostly gently rolling uplands with broad, shallow valleys; uplands to slightly mountainous in the north; steep slope down to Moselle flood plain in the southeast |
| shallow | Saint Barthelemy | hilly, almost completely surrounded by shallow-water reefs, with 20 beaches |
| shallow | Southern Ocean | ... is deep, 4,000 to 5,000 m over most of its extent with only limited areas of shallow water; the Antarctic continental shelf is generally narrow and unusually deep, its edge lying at ... |
| Shan | Kyrgyzstan | peaks of Tien Shan and associated valleys and basins encompass entire nation |
| shape | French Southern and Antarctic Lands | ... volcano is a large plateau Ile Saint-Paul (Ile Amsterdam et Ile Saint-Paul): triangular in shape, the island is the top of a volcano, rocky with steep cliffs on the eastern ... |
| sheer | Saint Helena | ... flows and cinder cones of 44 dormant volcanoes; ground rises to the east Tristan da Cunha: sheer cliffs line the coastline of the nearly circular island; the flanks of the central volcanic ... |
| sheet | Antarctica | about 98% thick 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 ... |
| shelf | Arctic Ocean | ... during the winter and extends to the encircling landmasses; the ocean floor is about 50% continental shelf (highest percentage of any ocean) with the remainder a central basin interrupted by three submarine ... |
| shelf | Southern Ocean | ... m over most of its extent with only limited areas of shallow water; the Antarctic continental shelf is generally narrow and unusually deep, its edge lying at depths of 400 to 800 ... |
| shelves | Antarctica | ... Land, the Antarctic Peninsula area, and parts of Ross Island on McMurdo Sound; glaciers form ice shelves along about half of the coastline, and floating ice shelves constitute 11% of the area ... |
| short | Slovenia | a short coastal strip on the Adriatic, an alpine mountain region adjacent to Italy and Austria, mixed mountains and valleys with numerous rivers to the east |
| shrinking | Uzbekistan | ... dunes; broad, flat intensely irrigated river valleys along course of Amu Darya, Syr Darya (Sirdaryo), and Zarafshon; Fergana Valley in east surrounded by mountainous Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan; shrinking Aral Sea in west |
| Siberia | Kazakhstan | extends from the Volga to the Altai Mountains and from the plains in western Siberia to oases and desert in Central Asia |
| Siberia | Russia | broad plain with low hills west of Urals; vast coniferous forest and tundra in Siberia; uplands and mountains along southern border regions |
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