field - Terrain - Afghanistan

Country	Terrain
Afghanistan	mostly rugged mountains; plains in north and southwest
Akrotiri	void
Albania	mostly mountains and hills; small plains along coast
Algeria	mostly high plateau and desert; some mountains; narrow, discontinuous coastal plain
American Samoa	five volcanic islands with rugged peaks and limited coastal plains, two coral atolls (Rose Island, Swains Island)
Andorra	rugged mountains dissected by narrow valleys
Angola	narrow coastal plain rises abruptly to vast interior plateau
Anguilla	flat and low-lying island of coral and limestone
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 southern Victoria Land, Wilkes 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 of the continent
Antigua and Barbuda	mostly low-lying limestone and coral islands, with some higher volcanic areas
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 Gyral Stream, but nearly straight-line movement from the New Siberian Islands (Russia) to Denmark Strait (between Greenland and Iceland); the icepack is surrounded by open seas during the summer, but more than doubles in size 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 ridges (Alpha Cordillera, Nansen Cordillera, and Lomonosov Ridge)
Argentina	rich plains of the Pampas in northern half, flat to rolling plateau of Patagonia in south, rugged Andes along western border
Armenia	Armenian Highland with mountains; little forest land; fast flowing rivers; good soil in Aras River valley
Aruba	flat with a few hills; scant vegetation
Ashmore and Cartier Islands	low with sand and coral
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 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
Australia	mostly low plateau with deserts; fertile plain in southeast
Austria	in the west and south mostly mountains (Alps); along the eastern and northern margins mostly flat or gently sloping
Azerbaijan	large, flat Kur-Araz Ovaligi (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 Caspian Sea
Bahamas, The	long, flat coral formations with some low rounded hills
Bahrain	mostly low desert plain rising gently to low central escarpment
Bangladesh	mostly flat alluvial plain; hilly in southeast
Barbados	relatively flat; rises gently to central highland region
Belarus	generally flat and contains much marshland
Belgium	flat coastal plains in northwest, central rolling hills, rugged mountains of Ardennes Forest in southeast
Belize	flat, swampy coastal plain; low mountains in south
Benin	mostly flat to undulating plain; some hills and low mountains
Bermuda	low hills separated by fertile depressions
Bhutan	mostly mountainous with some fertile valleys and savanna
Bolivia	rugged Andes Mountains with a highland plateau (Altiplano), hills, lowland plains of the Amazon Basin

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