word | | Terrain |
| center | Chad | broad, arid plains in center, desert in north, mountains in northwest, lowlands in south |
| center | French Southern and Antarctic Lands | ... Ile Amsterdam (Ile Amsterdam et Ile Saint-Paul): a volcanic island with steep coastal cliffs; the center floor of the volcano is a large plateau Ile Saint-Paul (Ile Amsterdam et Ile ... |
| center | Germany | lowlands in north, uplands in center, Bavarian Alps in south |
| center | Guam | ... 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 south |
| center | Madagascar | narrow coastal plain, high plateau and mountains in center |
| center | Mozambique | mostly coastal lowlands, uplands in center, high plateaus in northwest, mountains in west |
| center | Nauru | sandy beach rises to fertile ring around raised coral reefs with phosphate plateau in center |
| center | Peru | western coastal plain (costa), high and rugged Andes in center (sierra), eastern lowland jungle of Amazon Basin (selva) |
| center | Yemen | narrow coastal plain backed by flat-topped hills and rugged mountains; dissected upland desert plains in center slope into the desert interior of the Arabian Peninsula |
| centerline | Atlantic Ocean | ... in the northern Atlantic, counterclockwise warm-water gyre in the southern Atlantic; the ocean floor is dominated by the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a rugged north-south centerline for the entire Atlantic basin |
| central | 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 ... |
| central | Bahrain | mostly low desert plain rising gently to low central escarpment |
| central | Barbados | relatively flat; rises gently to central highland region |
| central | Belgium | flat coastal plains in northwest, central rolling hills, rugged mountains of Ardennes Forest in southeast |
| central | Burma | central lowlands ringed by steep, rugged highlands |
| central | Chile | low coastal mountains; fertile central valley; rugged Andes in east |
| central | Christmas Island | steep cliffs along coast rise abruptly to central plateau |
| central | Colombia | flat coastal lowlands, central highlands, high Andes Mountains, eastern lowland plains |
| central | Congo, Democratic Republic of the | vast central basin is a low-lying plateau; mountains in east |
| central | Congo, Republic of the | coastal plain, southern basin, central plateau, northern basin |
| central | Cyprus | central plain with mountains to north and south; scattered but significant plains along southern coast |
| central | Djibouti | coastal plain and plateau separated by central mountains |
| central | Ecuador | coastal plain (costa), inter-Andean central highlands (sierra), and flat to rolling eastern jungle (oriente) |
| central | El Salvador | mostly mountains with narrow coastal belt and central plateau |
| central | Ethiopia | high plateau with central mountain range divided by Great Rift Valley |
| central | European Union | fairly flat along the Baltic and Atlantic coast; mountainous in the central and southern areas |
| central | Ghana | mostly low plains with dissected plateau in south-central area |
| central | Grenada | volcanic in origin with central mountains |
| central | Iran | rugged, mountainous rim; high, central basin with deserts, mountains; small, discontinuous plains along both coasts |
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