al plain with swamps
Svalbard:
wild, rugged mountains; much of high land ice covered;
west coast clear of ice about one-half of the year; fjords along
west and north coasts
Swaziland:
mostly mountains and hills; some moderately sloping plains
Sweden:
mostly flat or gently rolling lowlands; mountains in west
Switzerland:
mostly mountains (Alps in south, Jura in northwest)
with a central plateau of rolling hills, plains, and large lakes
Syria:
primarily semiarid and desert plateau; narrow coastal plain;
mountains in west
Tajikistan:
Pamir and Alay mountains dominate landscape; western
Fergana Valley in north, Kofarnihon and Vakhsh Valleys in southwest
Tanzania:
plains along coast; central plateau; highlands in north,
south
Thailand:
central plain; Khorat Plateau in the east; mountains
elsewhere
Togo:
gently rolling savanna in north; central hills; southern
plateau; low coastal plain with extensive lagoons and marshes
Tokelau:
low-lying coral atolls enclosing large lagoons
Tonga:
most islands have limestone base formed from uplifted coral
formation; others have limestone overlying volcanic base
Trinidad and Tobago:
mostly plains with some hills and low mountains
Tromelin Island:
low, flat, and sandy
Tunisia:
mountains in north; hot, dry central plain; semiarid south
merges into the Sahara
Turkey:
mostly mountains; narrow coastal plain; high central plateau
(Anatolia)
Turkmenistan:
flat-to-rolling sandy desert with dunes rising to
mountains in the south; low mountains along border with Iran;
borders Caspian Sea in west
Turks and Caicos Islands:
low, flat limestone; extensive marshes and
mangrove swamps
Tuvalu:
very low-lying and narrow coral atolls
Uganda:
mostly plateau with rim of mountains
Ukraine:
most of Ukraine consists of fertile plains (steppes) and
plateaus, mountains being found only in the west (the Carpathians),
and in the Crimean Peninsula in the extreme south
United Arab Emirates:
flat, barren coastal plain merging into
rolling sand dunes of vast desert wasteland; mountains in east
United Kingdom:
mostly rugged hills and low mountains; level to
rolling plains in east and southeast
United States:
vast central plain, mountains in west, hills and low
mountains in east; rugged mountains and broad river valleys in
Alaska; rugged, volcanic topography in Hawa
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