word | | Terrain |
| southern | European Union | fairly flat along the Baltic and Atlantic coast; mountainous in the central and southern areas |
| southern | Indian Ocean | surface dominated by counterclockwise gyre (broad, circular system of currents) in the southern Indian Ocean; unique reversal of surface currents in the northern Indian Ocean; low atmospheric pressure over southwest Asia from ... |
| southern | Nigeria | southern lowlands merge into central hills and plateaus; mountains in southeast, plains in north |
| southern | Northern Mariana Islands | southern islands are limestone with level terraces and fringing coral reefs; northern islands are volcanic |
| southern | Pacific Ocean | ... are dominated by a clockwise, warm-water gyre (broad circular system of currents) and in the southern Pacific by a counterclockwise, cool-water gyre; in the northern Pacific, sea ice forms in ... |
| southern | Poland | mostly flat plain; mountains along southern border |
| southern | Russia | broad plain with low hills west of Urals; vast coniferous forest and tundra in Siberia; uplands and mountains along southern border regions |
| Southern | Southern Ocean | the 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 ... |
| southern | Togo | gently rolling savanna in north; central hills; southern plateau; low coastal plain with extensive lagoons and marshes |
| southwest | Afghanistan | mostly rugged mountains; plains in north and southwest |
| southwest | Botswana | predominantly flat to gently rolling tableland; Kalahari Desert in southwest |
| southwest | Cambodia | mostly low, flat plains; mountains in southwest and north |
| southwest | Cameroon | diverse, with coastal plain in southwest, dissected plateau in center, mountains in west, plains in north |
| southwest | Central African Republic | vast, flat to rolling, monotonous plateau; scattered hills in northeast and southwest |
| southwest | Eritrea | ... by extension of Ethiopian north-south trending highlands, descending on the east to a coastal desert plain, on the northwest to hilly terrain and on the southwest to flat-to-rolling plains |
| southwest | Guernsey | mostly level with low hills in southwest |
| southwest | Indian Ocean | ... 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-to-northeast ... |
| southwest | Mongolia | vast semidesert and desert plains, grassy steppe, mountains in west and southwest; Gobi Desert in south-central |
| southwest | Tajikistan | Pamir and Alay Mountains dominate landscape; western Fergana Valley in north, Kofarnihon and Vakhsh Valleys in southwest |
| springs | French Southern and Antarctic Lands | ... the top of a volcano, rocky with steep cliffs on the eastern side; has active thermal springs Iles Crozet: a large archipelago formed from the Crozet Plateau is divided into two groups ... |
| sq | Southern Ocean | ... global mean is 133 m); the Antarctic icepack grows from an average minimum of 2.6 million sq km in March to about 18.8 million sq km in September, better than a sixfold ... |
| steep | British Virgin Islands | coral islands relatively flat; volcanic islands steep, hilly |
| steep | Burma | central lowlands ringed by steep, rugged highlands |
| steep | Cape Verde | steep, rugged, rocky, volcanic |
| steep | Christmas Island | steep cliffs along coast rise abruptly to central plateau |
| steep | Comoros | volcanic islands, interiors vary from steep mountains to low hills |
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