word | | Terrain |
| awash | French Southern and Antarctic Lands | ... plains with a number 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 ... |
| Babelthuap | Palau | varying geologically from the high, mountainous main island of Babelthuap to low, coral islands usually fringed by large barrier reefs |
| backed | Montenegro | highly indented coastline with narrow coastal plain backed by rugged high limestone mountains and plateaus |
| backed | 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 |
| Baku | Azerbaijan | ... 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 Caspian Sea |
| Balochistan | Pakistan | flat Indus plain in east; mountains in north and northwest; Balochistan plateau in west |
| Baltic | 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 ... |
| Baltic | European Union | fairly flat along the Baltic and Atlantic coast; mountainous in the central and southern areas |
| Banks | Jordan | mostly desert plateau in east, highland area in west; Great Rift Valley separates East and West Banks of the Jordan River |
| barren | 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 ... |
| barren | Greenland | flat to gradually sloping icecap covers all but a narrow, mountainous, barren, rocky coast |
| barren | Libya | mostly barren, flat to undulating plains, plateaus, depressions |
| barren | Mauritania | mostly barren, flat plains of the Sahara; some central hills |
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