| Country | Terrain |
| Dominican Republic | rugged highlands and mountains with fertile valleys interspersed |
| Ecuador | coastal plain (costa), inter-Andean central highlands (sierra), and flat to rolling eastern jungle (oriente) |
| Egypt | vast desert plateau interrupted by Nile valley and delta |
| El Salvador | mostly mountains with narrow coastal belt and central plateau |
| Equatorial Guinea | coastal plains rise to interior hills; islands are volcanic |
| Eritrea | dominated 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 |
| Estonia | marshy, lowlands; flat in the north, hilly in the south |
| Ethiopia | high plateau with central mountain range divided by Great Rift Valley |
| European Union | fairly flat along the Baltic and Atlantic coast; mountainous in the central and southern areas |
| Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) | rocky, hilly, mountainous with some boggy, undulating plains |
| Faroe Islands | rugged, rocky, some low peaks; cliffs along most of coast |
| Fiji | mostly mountains of volcanic origin |
| Finland | mostly low, flat to rolling plains interspersed with lakes and low hills |
| France | metropolitan France: mostly flat plains or gently rolling hills in north and west; remainder is mountainous, especially Pyrenees in south, Alps in east
French Guiana: low-lying coastal plains rising to hills and small mountains
Guadeloupe: Basse-Terre 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 rugged and mountainous; fertile lowlands along coast |
| French Polynesia | mixture of rugged high islands and low islands with reefs |
| 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 Saint-Paul): triangular in shape, the island is 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 of islands
Iles Kerguelen: the interior of the large island of Ile Kerguelen is composed of rugged terrain of high mountains, hills, valleys, and 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: low, flat, and sandy
Tromelin Island (Iles Eparses): low, flat, sandy; likely volcanic seamount |
| Gabon | narrow coastal plain; hilly interior; savanna in east and south |
| Gambia, The | flood plain of the Gambia River flanked by some low hills |
| Gaza Strip | flat to rolling, sand- and dune-covered coastal plain |
| Georgia | largely mountainous with Great Caucasus Mountains in the north and Lesser Caucasus Mountains in the south; Kolkhet'is Dablobi (Kolkhida Lowland) opens to the Black Sea in the west; Mtkvari River Basin in the east; good soils in river valley flood plains, foothills of Kolkhida Lowland |
| Germany | lowlands in north, uplands in center, Bavarian Alps in south |
| Ghana | mostly low plains with dissected plateau in south-central area |
| Gibraltar | a narrow coastal lowland borders the Rock of Gibraltar |
| Greece | mostly mountains with ranges extending into the sea as peninsulas or chains of islands |
| Greenland | flat to gradually sloping icecap covers all but a narrow, mountainous, barren, rocky coast |
| Grenada | volcanic in origin with central mountains |
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