Bahamas, The:67,000 (1997)
Bahrain:275,000 (1997)
Bangladesh:770,000 (1997)
Barbados:76,000 (1997)
Belarus:2.52 million (1997)
Belgium:4.72 million (1997)
Belize:41,000 (1997)
Benin:60,000 (1997)
Bermuda:66,000 (1997)
Bhutan:11,000 (1997)
Bolivia:900,000 (1997)
Bosnia and Herzegovina:NA
Botswana:31,000 (1997)
Brazil:36.5 million (1997)
British Indian Ocean Territory:NA
British Virgin Islands:4,000 (1997)
Brunei:201,900 (1998)
Bulgaria:3.31 million (1997)
Burkina Faso:100,000 (1997)
Burma:320,000 (2000)
Burundi:25,000 (1997)
Cambodia:94,000 (1997)
Cameroon:450,000 (1997)
Canada:21.5 million (1997)
Cape Verde:2,000 (1997)
Cayman Islands:7,000 (1997)
Central African Republic:18,000 (1997)
Chad:10,000 (1997)
Chile:3.15 million (1997)
China:400 million (1997)
Christmas Island:600 (1997)
Cocos (Keeling) Islands:NA
Colombia:4.59 million (1997)
Comoros:1,000 (1997)
Congo, Democratic Republic of the:6.478 million (1997)
Congo, Republic of the:33,000 (1997)
Cook Islands:4,000 (1997)
Costa Rica:525,000 (1997)
Cote d'Ivoire:900,000 (1997)
Croatia:1.22 million (1997)
Cuba:2.64 million (1997)
Cyprus:Greek Cypriot area: 248,000 (1997); Turkish Cypriot area:52,300 (1994)
Czech Republic:3,405,834 (December 2000)
Denmark:3.121 million (1997)
Djibouti:28,000 (1997)
Dominica:6,000 (1997)
Dominican Republic:770,000 (1997)
Ecuador:1.55 million (1997)
Egypt:7.7 million (1997)
El Salvador:600,000 (1990)
Equatorial Guinea:4,000 (1997)
Eritrea:1,000 (1997)
Estonia:605,000 (1997)
Ethiopia:320,000 (1997)
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas):1,000 (1997)
Faroe Islands:15,000 (1997)
Fiji:21,000 (1997)
Finland:3.2 million (1997)
France:34.8 million (1997)
French Guiana:30,000 (1997)
French Polynesia:40,000 (1997)
Gabon:63,000 (1997)
Gambia, The:5,000 (2000)
Gaza Strip:NA; note - most Palestinian households have televisions(1997)
Georgia:2.57 million (1997)
Germany:51.4 million (1998)
Ghana:1.73 million (1997)
Gibraltar:10,000 (1997)
Greece:2.54 million (1997)
Greenland:30,000 (1998 est.)
Grenada:33,000 (1997)
Guadeloupe:118,000 (1997)
Guam:106,000 (1997)
Guatemala:1.323 million (1997)
Guernsey:NA
Guinea:85,000 (1997)
Guinea-Bissau:NA
Guyana:46,000 (1997)
Haiti:38,000 (1997)
Holy See (Vatican City):NA
Honduras:570,000 (1997)
Hong Kong:1.84 million (1997)
Hungary:4.42 million (1997)
Iceland:98,000 (1997)
India:63 million (1997)
Indonesia:13.75 million (1997)
Iran:4.61 million (1997)
Iraq:1.75 million (1997)
Ireland:1.82 million (2001)
Israel:1.69 million (1997)
Italy:30.3 million (1997)
Jamaica:460,000 (1997)
Japan:86.5 million (1997)
Jersey:NA
Jordan:500,000 (1997)
Kazakhstan:3.88 million (1997)
Kenya:730,000 (1997)
Kiribati:1,000 (1997)
Korea, North:1.2 million (1997)
Korea, South:15.9 million (1997)
Kuwait:875,000 (1997)
Kyrgyzstan:210,000 (1997)
Laos:52,000 (1997)
Latvia:1.22 million (1997)
Lebanon:1.18 million (1997)
Lesotho:54,000 (1997)
Liberia:70,000 (1997)
Libya:730,000 (1997)
Liechtenstein:12,000 (1997)
Lithuania:1.7 million (1997)
Luxembourg:285,000 (1998 est.)
Macau:49,000 (1997)
Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of:510,000 (1997)
Madagascar:325,000 (1997)
Malawi:0 (1999)
Malaysia:10.8 million (1999)
Maldives:10,000 (1999)
Mali:45,000 (1997)
Malta:280,000 (1997)
Man, Isle of:27,490 (1999)
Marshall Islands:NA
Martinique:66,000 (1997)
Mauritania:87,000 (1998)
Mauritius:258,000 (1997)
Mayotte:3,500 (1994)
Mexico:25.6 million (1997)
Micronesia, Federated States of:NA
Moldova:1.26 million (1997)
Monaco:25,000 (1997)
Mongolia:168,800 (1999)
Montserrat:3,000 (1997)
Morocco:3.1 million (1997)
Mozambique:67,600 (2000)
Namibia:60,000 (1997)
Nauru:500 (1997)
Nepal:130,000 (1997)
Netherlands:8.1 million (1997)
Netherlands Antilles:69,000 (1997)
New Caledonia:52,000 (1997)
New Zealand:1.926 million (1997)
Nicaragua:320,000 (1997)
Niger:125,000 (1997)
Nigeria:6.9 million (1997)
Niue:NA
Norfolk Island:1,200 (1996)
Northern Mariana Islands:NA
Norway:2.03 million (1997)
Oman:1.6 million (1997)
Pakistan:3.1 million (1997)
Palau:11,000 (1997)
Panama:510,000 (1997)
Papua New Guinea:42,000 (1997)
Paraguay:990,000 (2001)
Peru:3.06 million (1997)
Philippines:3.7 million (1997)
Pitcairn Islands:NA
Poland:13.05 million (1997)
Portugal:3.31 million (1997)
Puerto Rico:1.021 million (1997)
Qatar:230,000 (1997)
Reunion:127,000 (1997)
Romania:5.25 million (1997)
Russia:60.5 million (1997)
Rwanda:NA; probably less than 1,000 (1997)
Saint Helena:2,000 (1997)
Saint Kitts and Nevis:10,000 (1997)
Saint Lucia:32,000 (1997)
Saint Pierre and Miquelon:4,000 (1997)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines:18,000 (1997)
Samoa:11,000 (1997)
San Marino:9,000 (1997)
Sao Tome and Principe:23,000 (1997)
Saudi Arabia:5.1 million (1997)
Senegal:361,000 (1997)
Seychelles:11,000 (1997)
Sierra Leone:53,000 (1997)
Singapore:1.33 million (1997)
Slovakia:2.62 million (1997)
Slovenia:710,000 (1997)
Solomon Islands:3,000 (1997)
Somalia:135,000 (1997)
South Africa:5.2 million (1997)
Spain:16.2 million (1997)
Sri Lanka:1.53 million (1997)
Sudan:2.38 million (1997)
Suriname:63,000 (1997)
Svalbard:NA
Swaziland:21,000 (1997)
Sweden:4.6 million (1997)
Switzerland:3.31 million (1997)
Syria:1.05 million (1997)
Tajikistan:860,000 (1991)
Tanzania:103,000 (1997)
Thailand:15.19 million (1997)
Togo:73,000 (1997)
Tokelau:NA
Tonga:2,000 (1997)
Trinidad and Tobago:425,000 (1997)
Tunisia:920,000 (1997)
Turkey:20.9 million (1997)
Turkmenistan:820,000 (1997)
Turks and Caicos Islands:NA
Tuvalu:800
Uganda:315,000 (1997)
Ukraine:18.05 million (1997)
United Arab Emirates:310,000 (1997)
United Kingdom:30.5 million (1997)
United States:219 million (1997)
Uruguay:782,000 (1997)
Uzbekistan:6.4 million (1997)
Vanuatu:2,000 (1997)
Venezuela:4.1 million (1997)
Vietnam:3.57 million (1997)
Virgin Islands:68,000 (1997)
Wallis and Futuna:NA
West Bank:NA; note - many Palestinian households have televisions(1999)
Western Sahara:6,000 (1997)
World:NA
Yemen:470,000 (1997)
Yugoslavia:2.75 million (1997)
Zambia:277,000 (1997)
Zimbabwe:370,000 (1997)
Taiwan:8.8 million (1998)
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@Terrain
Afghanistan:mostly rugged mountains; plains in north and southwest
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 limitedcoastal 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% barrenrock, with average elevations between 2,000 and 4,000 meters;mountain ranges up to 5,140 meters; ice-free coastal areas includeparts of southern Victoria Land, Wilkes Land, the AntarcticPeninsula area, and parts of Ross Island on McMurdo Sound; glaciersform ice shelves along about half of the coastline, and floating iceshelves 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 polaricepack that averages about 3 meters in thickness, although pressureridges may be three times that size; clockwise drift pattern in theBeaufort Gyral Stream, but nearly straight-line movement from theNew Siberian Islands (Russia) to Denmark Strait (between Greenlandand Iceland); the icepack is surrounded by open seas during thesummer, but more than doubles in size during the winter and extendsto the encircling landmasses; the ocean floor is about 50%continental shelf (highest percentage of any ocean) with theremainder 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 torolling plateau of Patagonia in south, rugged Andes along westernborder
Armenia:Armenian Highland with mountains; little forest land; fastflowing 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 LabradorSea, Denmark Strait, and Baltic Sea from October to June; clockwisewarm-water gyre (broad, circular system of currents) in the northernAtlantic, counterclockwise warm-water gyre in the southern Atlantic;the ocean floor is dominated by the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a ruggednorth-south centerline for the entire Atlantic basin
Australia:mostly low plateau with deserts; fertile plain insoutheast
Austria:in the west and south mostly mountains (Alps); along theeastern and northern margins mostly flat or gently sloping
Azerbaijan:large, flat Kur-Araz Ovaligi (Kura-Araks Lowland) (muchof it below sea level) with Great Caucasus Mountains to the north,Qarabag Yaylasi (Karabakh Upland) in west; Baku lies on AbseronYasaqligi (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 centralescarpment
Baker Island:low, nearly level coral island surrounded by a narrowfringing reef
Bangladesh:mostly flat alluvial plain; hilly in southeast
Barbados:relatively flat; rises gently to central highland region
Bassas da India:volcanic rock
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
Bosnia and Herzegovina:mountains and valleys
Botswana:predominantly flat to gently rolling tableland; KalahariDesert in southwest
Bouvet Island:volcanic; maximum elevation about 800 m; coast ismostly inaccessible
Brazil:mostly flat to rolling lowlands in north; some plains,hills, mountains, and narrow coastal belt
British Indian Ocean Territory:flat and low (most areas do notexceed four meters in elevation)
British Virgin Islands:coral islands relatively flat; volcanicislands steep, hilly
Brunei:flat coastal plain rises to mountains in east; hilly lowlandin west
Bulgaria:mostly mountains with lowlands in north and southeast
Burkina Faso:mostly flat to dissected, undulating plains; hills inwest and southeast
Burma:central lowlands ringed by steep, rugged highlands
Burundi:hilly and mountainous, dropping to a plateau in east, someplains
Cambodia:mostly low, flat plains; mountains in southwest and north
Cameroon:diverse, with coastal plain in southwest, dissectedplateau in center, mountains in west, plains in north
Canada:mostly plains with mountains in west and lowlands insoutheast
Cape Verde:steep, rugged, rocky, volcanic
Cayman Islands:low-lying limestone base surrounded by coral reefs
Central African Republic:vast, flat to rolling, monotonous plateau;scattered hills in northeast and southwest
Chad:broad, arid plains in center, desert in north, mountains innorthwest, lowlands in south
Chile:low coastal mountains; fertile central valley; rugged Andesin east
China:mostly mountains, high plateaus, deserts in west; plains,deltas, and hills in east
Christmas Island:steep cliffs along coast rise abruptly to centralplateau
Clipperton Island:coral atoll
Cocos (Keeling) Islands:flat, low-lying coral atolls
Colombia:flat coastal lowlands, central highlands, high AndesMountains, eastern lowland plains
Comoros:volcanic islands, interiors vary from steep mountains tolow hills
Congo, Democratic Republic of the:vast central basin is a low-lyingplateau; mountains in east
Congo, Republic of the:coastal plain, southern basin, centralplateau, northern basin
Cook Islands:low coral atolls in north; volcanic, hilly islands insouth
Coral Sea Islands:sand and coral reefs and islands (or cays)
Costa Rica:coastal plains separated by rugged mountains
Cote d'Ivoire:mostly flat to undulating plains; mountains innorthwest
Croatia:geographically diverse; flat plains along Hungarian border,low mountains and highlands near Adriatic coastline and islands
Cuba:mostly flat to rolling plains, with rugged hills and mountainsin the southeast
Cyprus:central plain with mountains to north and south; scatteredbut significant plains along southern coast
Czech Republic:Bohemia in the west consists of rolling plains,hills, and plateaus surrounded by low mountains; Moravia in the eastconsists of very hilly country
Denmark:low and flat to gently rolling plains
Djibouti:coastal plain and plateau separated by central mountains
Dominica:rugged mountains of volcanic origin
Dominican Republic:rugged highlands and mountains with fertilevalleys 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 centralplateau
Equatorial Guinea:coastal plains rise to interior hills; islandsare volcanic
Eritrea:dominated by extension of Ethiopian north-south trendinghighlands, descending on the east to a coastal desert plain, on thenorthwest to hilly terrain and on the southwest to flat-to-rollingplains
Estonia:marshy, lowlands
Ethiopia:high plateau with central mountain range divided by GreatRift Valley
Europa Island:low and flat
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas):rocky, hilly, mountainous withsome boggy, undulating plains
Faroe Islands:rugged, rocky, some low peaks; cliffs along most ofcoast
Fiji:mostly mountains of volcanic origin
Finland:mostly low, flat to rolling plains interspersed with lakesand low hills
France:mostly flat plains or gently rolling hills in north andwest; remainder is mountainous, especially Pyrenees in south, Alpsin east
French Guiana:low-lying coastal plains rising to hills and smallmountains
French Polynesia:mixture of rugged high islands and low islandswith reefs
French Southern and Antarctic Lands:volcanic
Gabon:narrow coastal plain; hilly interior; savanna in east andsouth
Gambia, The:flood plain of the Gambia river flanked by some lowhills
Gaza Strip:flat to rolling, sand- and dune-covered coastal plain
Georgia:largely mountainous with Great Caucasus Mountains in thenorth and Lesser Caucasus Mountains in the south; Kolkhet'is Dablobi(Kolkhida Lowland) opens to the Black Sea in the west; Mtkvari RiverBasin 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
Glorioso Islands:low and flat
Greece:mostly mountains with ranges extending into the sea aspeninsulas 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
Guadeloupe:Basse-Terre is volcanic in origin with interiormountains; Grande-Terre is low limestone formation; most of theseven other islands are volcanic in origin
Guam:volcanic origin, surrounded by coral reefs; relatively flatcoralline limestone plateau (source of most fresh water), with steepcoastal cliffs and narrow coastal plains in north, low-rising hillsin center, mountains in south
Guatemala:mostly mountains with narrow coastal plains and rollinglimestone plateau (Peten)
Guernsey:mostly level with low hills in southwest
Guinea:generally flat coastal plain, hilly to mountainous interior
Guinea-Bissau:mostly low coastal plain rising to savanna in east
Guyana:mostly rolling highlands; low coastal plain; savanna in south
Haiti:mostly rough and mountainous
Heard Island and McDonald Islands: Heard Island - bleak and mountainous, with a quiescent volcano; McDonald Islands - small and rocky
Holy See (Vatican City):low hill
Honduras:mostly mountains in interior, narrow coastal plains
Hong Kong:hilly to mountainous with steep slopes; lowlands in north
Howland Island:low-lying, nearly level, sandy, coral islandsurrounded by a narrow fringing reef; depressed central area
Hungary:mostly flat to rolling plains; hills and low mountains onthe Slovakian border
Iceland:mostly plateau interspersed with mountain peaks, icefields;coast deeply indented by bays and fiords
India:upland plain (Deccan Plateau) in south, flat to rolling plainalong the Ganges, deserts in west, Himalayas in north
Indian Ocean:surface dominated by counterclockwise gyre (broad,circular system of currents) in the southern Indian Ocean; uniquereversal of surface currents in the northern Indian Ocean; lowatmospheric pressure over southwest Asia from hot, rising, summerair results in the southwest monsoon and southwest-to-northeastwinds and currents, while high pressure over northern Asia fromcold, falling, winter air results in the northeast monsoon andnortheast-to-southwest winds and currents; ocean floor is dominatedby the Mid-Indian Ocean Ridge and subdivided by the Southeast IndianOcean Ridge, Southwest Indian Ocean Ridge, and Ninetyeast Ridge
Indonesia:mostly coastal lowlands; larger islands have interiormountains
Iran:rugged, mountainous rim; high, central basin with deserts,mountains; small, discontinuous plains along both coasts
Iraq:mostly broad plains; reedy marshes along Iranian border insouth with large flooded areas; mountains along borders with Iranand Turkey
Ireland:mostly level to rolling interior plain surrounded by ruggedhills and low mountains; sea cliffs on west coast
Israel:Negev desert in the south; low coastal plain; centralmountains; Jordan Rift Valley
Italy:mostly rugged and mountainous; some plains, coastal lowlands
Jamaica:mostly mountains, with narrow, discontinuous coastal plain
Jan Mayen:volcanic island, partly covered by glaciers
Japan:mostly rugged and mountainous
Jarvis Island:sandy, coral island surrounded by a narrow fringingreef
Jersey:gently rolling plain with low, rugged hills along north coast
Johnston Atoll:mostly flat
Jordan:mostly desert plateau in east, highland area in west; GreatRift Valley separates East and West Banks of the Jordan River
Juan de Nova Island:low and flat
Kazakhstan:extends from the Volga to the Altai Mountains and fromthe plains in western Siberia to oases and desert in Central Asia
Kenya:low plains rise to central highlands bisected by Great RiftValley; fertile plateau in west
Kingman Reef:low and nearly level
Kiribati:mostly low-lying coral atolls surrounded by extensive reefs
Korea, North:mostly hills and mountains separated by deep, narrowvalleys; coastal plains wide in west, discontinuous in east
Korea, South:mostly hills and mountains; wide coastal plains inwest and south
Kuwait:flat to slightly undulating desert plain
Kyrgyzstan:peaks of Tien Shan and associated valleys and basinsencompass entire nation
Laos:mostly rugged mountains; some plains and plateaus
Latvia:low plain
Lebanon:narrow coastal plain; Al Biqa' (Bekaa Valley) separatesLebanon and Anti-Lebanon Mountains
Lesotho:mostly highland with plateaus, hills, and mountains
Liberia:mostly flat to rolling coastal plains rising to rollingplateau and low mountains in northeast
Libya:mostly barren, flat to undulating plains, plateaus,depressions
Liechtenstein:mostly mountainous (Alps) with Rhine Valley inwestern third
Lithuania:lowland, many scattered small lakes, fertile soil
Luxembourg:mostly gently rolling uplands with broad, shallowvalleys; uplands to slightly mountainous in the north; steep slopedown to Moselle flood plain in the southeast
Macau:generally flat
Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of:mountainous territorycovered with deep basins and valleys; three large lakes, eachdivided by a frontier line; country bisected by the Vardar River
Madagascar:narrow coastal plain, high plateau and mountains incenter
Malawi:narrow elongated plateau with rolling plains, rounded hills,some mountains
Malaysia:coastal plains rising to hills and mountains
Maldives:flat, with white sandy beaches
Mali:mostly flat to rolling northern plains covered by sand;savanna in south, rugged hills in northeast
Malta:mostly low, rocky, flat to dissected plains; many coastalcliffs
Man, Isle of:hills in north and south bisected by central valley
Marshall Islands:low coral limestone and sand islands
Martinique:mountainous with indented coastline; dormant volcano
Mauritania:mostly barren, flat plains of the Sahara; some centralhills
Mauritius:small coastal plain rising to discontinuous mountainsencircling central plateau
Mayotte:generally undulating, with deep ravines and ancientvolcanic peaks
Mexico:high, rugged mountains; low coastal plains; high plateaus;desert
Micronesia, Federated States of: islands vary geologically from high mountainous islands to low, coral atolls; volcanic outcroppings on Pohnpei, Kosrae, and Truk
Midway Islands:low, nearly level
Moldova:rolling steppe, gradual slope south to Black Sea
Monaco:hilly, rugged, rocky
Mongolia:vast semidesert and desert plains, grassy steppe,mountains in west and southwest; Gobi Desert in south-central
Montserrat:volcanic islands, mostly mountainous, with small coastallowland
Morocco:northern coast and interior are mountainous with largeareas of bordering plateaus, intermontane valleys, and rich coastalplains
Mozambique:mostly coastal lowlands, uplands in center, highplateaus in northwest, mountains in west
Namibia:mostly high plateau; Namib Desert along coast; KalahariDesert in east
Nauru:sandy beach rises to fertile ring around raised coral reefswith phosphate plateau in center
Navassa Island:raised coral and limestone plateau, flat toundulating; ringed by vertical white cliffs (9 to 15 m high)
Nepal:Terai or flat river plain of the Ganges in south, centralhill region, rugged Himalayas in north
Netherlands:mostly coastal lowland and reclaimed land (polders);some hills in southeast
Netherlands Antilles:generally hilly, volcanic interiors
New Caledonia:coastal plains with interior mountains
New Zealand:predominately mountainous with some large coastal plains
Nicaragua:extensive Atlantic coastal plains rising to centralinterior mountains; narrow Pacific coastal plain interrupted byvolcanoes
Niger:predominately desert plains and sand dunes; flat to rollingplains in south; hills in north
Nigeria:southern lowlands merge into central hills and plateaus;mountains in southeast, plains in north
Niue:steep limestone cliffs along coast, central plateau
Norfolk Island:volcanic formation with mostly rolling plains
Northern Mariana Islands:southern islands are limestone with levelterraces and fringing coral reefs; northern islands are volcanic
Norway:glaciated; mostly high plateaus and rugged mountains brokenby fertile valleys; small, scattered plains; coastline deeplyindented by fjords; arctic tundra in north
Oman:central desert plain, rugged mountains in north and south
Pacific Ocean:surface currents in the northern Pacific aredominated by a clockwise, warm-water gyre (broad circular system ofcurrents) and in the southern Pacific by a counterclockwise,cool-water gyre; in the northern Pacific, sea ice forms in theBering Sea and Sea of Okhotsk in winter; in the southern Pacific,sea ice from Antarctica reaches its northernmost extent in October;the ocean floor in the eastern Pacific is dominated by the EastPacific Rise, while the western Pacific is dissected by deeptrenches, including the Mariana Trench, which is the world's deepest
Pakistan:flat Indus plain in east; mountains in north andnorthwest; Balochistan plateau in west
Palau:varying geologically from the high, mountainous main islandof Babelthuap to low, coral islands usually fringed by large barrierreefs
Palmyra Atoll:very low
Panama:interior mostly steep, rugged mountains and dissected,upland plains; coastal areas largely plains and rolling hills
Papua New Guinea:mostly mountains with coastal lowlands and rollingfoothills
Paracel Islands:mostly low and flat
Paraguay:grassy plains and wooded hills east of Rio Paraguay; GranChaco region west of Rio Paraguay mostly low, marshy plain near theriver, and dry forest and thorny scrub elsewhere
Peru:western coastal plain (costa), high and rugged Andes in center(sierra), eastern lowland jungle of Amazon Basin (selva)
Philippines:mostly mountains with narrow to extensive coastallowlands
Pitcairn Islands:rugged volcanic formation; rocky coastline withcliffs
Poland:mostly flat plain; mountains along southern border
Portugal:mountainous north of the Tagus River, rolling plains insouth
Puerto Rico:mostly mountains, with coastal plain belt in north;mountains precipitous to sea on west coast; sandy beaches along mostcoastal areas
Qatar:mostly flat and barren desert covered with loose sand andgravel
Reunion:mostly rugged and mountainous; fertile lowlands along coast
Romania:central Transylvanian Basin is separated from the Plain ofMoldavia on the east by the Carpathian Mountains and separated fromthe Walachian Plain on the south by the Transylvanian Alps
Russia:broad plain with low hills west of Urals; vast coniferousforest and tundra in Siberia; uplands and mountains along southernborder regions
Rwanda:mostly grassy uplands and hills; relief is mountainous withaltitude declining from west to east
Saint Helena:Saint Helena - rugged, volcanic; small scatteredplateaus and plains
note: the other islands of the group have a volcanic origin
Saint Kitts and Nevis:volcanic with mountainous interiors
Saint Lucia:volcanic and mountainous with some broad, fertilevalleys
Saint Pierre and Miquelon:mostly barren rock
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines:volcanic, mountainous
Samoa:narrow coastal plain with volcanic, rocky, rugged mountainsin interior
San Marino:rugged mountains
Sao Tome and Principe:volcanic, mountainous
Saudi Arabia:mostly uninhabited, sandy desert
Senegal:generally low, rolling, plains rising to foothills insoutheast
Seychelles:Mahe Group is granitic, narrow coastal strip, rocky,hilly; others are coral, flat, elevated reefs
Sierra Leone:coastal belt of mangrove swamps, wooded hill country,upland plateau, mountains in east
Singapore:lowland; gently undulating central plateau contains watercatchment area and nature preserve
Slovakia:rugged mountains in the central and northern part andlowlands in the south
Slovenia:a short coastal strip on the Adriatic, an alpine mountainregion adjacent to Italy and Austria, mixed mountain and valleyswith numerous rivers to the east
Solomon Islands:mostly rugged mountains with some low coral atolls
Somalia:mostly flat to undulating plateau rising to hills in north
South Africa:vast interior plateau rimmed by rugged hills andnarrow coastal plain
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands:most of the islands,rising steeply from the sea, are rugged and mountainous; SouthGeorgia is largely barren and has steep, glacier-covered mountains;the South Sandwich Islands are of volcanic origin with some activevolcanoes
Southern Ocean:the Southern Ocean is deep, 4,000 to 5,000 metersover most of its extent with only limited areas of shallow water;the Antarctic continental shelf is generally narrow and unusuallydeep - its edge lying at depths of 400 to 800 meters (the globalmean is 133 meters); the Antarctic icepack grows from an averageminimum of 2.6 million square kilometers in March to about 18.8million square kilometers in September, better than a sixfoldincrease in area; the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (21,000 km inlength) moves perpetually eastward; it is the world's largest oceancurrent, transporting 130 million cubic meters of water per second -100 times the flow of all the world's rivers
Spain:large, flat to dissected plateau surrounded by rugged hills;Pyrenees in north
Spratly Islands:flat
Sri Lanka:mostly low, flat to rolling plain; mountains insouth-central interior
Sudan:generally flat, featureless plain; mountains in east and west
Suriname:mostly rolling hills; narrow coastal 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 alongwest 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; westernFergana 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; mountainselsewhere
Togo:gently rolling savanna in north; central hills; southernplateau; 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 coralformation; 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 southmerges into the Sahara
Turkey:mostly mountains; narrow coastal plain; high central plateau(Anatolia)
Turkmenistan:flat-to-rolling sandy desert with dunes rising tomountains 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) andplateaus, 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 intorolling sand dunes of vast desert wasteland; mountains in east
United Kingdom:mostly rugged hills and low mountains; level torolling plains in east and southeast
United States:vast central plain, mountains in west, hills and lowmountains in east; rugged mountains and broad river valleys inAlaska; rugged, volcanic topography in Hawaii
Uruguay:mostly rolling plains and low hills; fertile coastal lowland
Uzbekistan:mostly flat-to-rolling sandy desert with dunes; broad,flat intensely irrigated river valleys along course of Amu Darya,Sirdaryo (Syr Darya), and Zarafshon; Fergana Valley in eastsurrounded by mountainous Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan; shrinking AralSea in west
Vanuatu:mostly mountains of volcanic origin; narrow coastal plains
Venezuela:Andes Mountains and Maracaibo Lowlands in northwest;central plains (llanos); Guiana Highlands in southeast
Vietnam:low, flat delta in south and north; central highlands;hilly, mountainous in far north and northwest
Virgin Islands:mostly hilly to rugged and mountainous with littlelevel land
Wake Island:atoll of three coral islands built up on an underwatervolcano; central lagoon is former crater, islands are part of the rim
Wallis and Futuna:volcanic origin; low hills
West Bank:mostly rugged dissected upland, some vegetation in west,but barren in east
Western Sahara:mostly low, flat desert with large areas of rocky orsandy surfaces rising to small mountains in south and northeast
World:the greatest ocean depth is the Mariana Trench at 10,924 m inthe Pacific Ocean
Yemen:narrow coastal plain backed by flat-topped hills and ruggedmountains; dissected upland desert plains in center slope into thedesert interior of the Arabian Peninsula
Yugoslavia:extremely varied; to the north, rich fertile plains; tothe east, limestone ranges and basins; to the southeast, ancientmountains and hills; to the southwest, extremely high shoreline withno islands off the coast
Zambia:mostly high plateau with some hills and mountains
Zimbabwe:mostly high plateau with higher central plateau (highveld); mountains in east
Taiwan:eastern two-thirds mostly rugged mountains; flat to gentlyrolling plains in west
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@Total fertility rate
Afghanistan:5.79 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Albania:2.32 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Algeria:2.72 children born/woman (2001 est.)
American Samoa:3.5 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Andorra:1.25 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Angola:6.48 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Anguilla:1.79 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Antigua and Barbuda:2.31 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Argentina:2.44 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Armenia:1.5 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Aruba:1.8 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Australia:1.77 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Austria:1.39 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Azerbaijan:2.24 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Bahamas, The:2.3 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Bahrain:2.79 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Bangladesh:2.78 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Barbados:1.64 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Belarus:1.28 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Belgium:1.61 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Belize:4.05 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Benin:6.23 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Bermuda:1.81 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Bhutan:5.07 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Bolivia:3.51 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Bosnia and Herzegovina:1.71 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Botswana:3.7 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Brazil:2.09 children born/woman (2001 est.)
British Virgin Islands:1.72 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Brunei:2.44 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Bulgaria:1.13 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Burkina Faso:6.35 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Burma:2.3 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Burundi:6.16 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Cambodia:4.74 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Cameroon:4.8 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Canada:1.6 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Cape Verde:4.05 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Cayman Islands:2.04 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Central African Republic:4.86 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Chad:6.56 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Chile:2.16 children born/woman (2001 est.)
China:1.82 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Christmas Island:NA children born/woman
Cocos (Keeling) Islands:NA children born/woman
Colombia:2.66 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Comoros:5.32 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Congo, Democratic Republic of the: 6.84 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Congo, Republic of the:5 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Costa Rica:2.47 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Cote d'Ivoire:5.7 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Croatia:1.94 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Cuba:1.6 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Cyprus:1.93 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Czech Republic:1.18 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Denmark:1.73 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Djibouti:5.72 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Dominica:2.03 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Dominican Republic:2.97 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Ecuador:3.12 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Egypt:3.07 children born/woman (2001 est.)
El Salvador:3.34 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Equatorial Guinea:4.88 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Eritrea:5.87 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Estonia:1.21 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Ethiopia:7 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas):NA children born/woman
Faroe Islands:2.3 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Fiji:2.86 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Finland:1.7 children born/woman (2001 est.)
France:1.75 children born/woman (2001 est.)
French Guiana:3.17 children born/woman (2001 est.)
French Polynesia:2.23 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Gabon:3.69 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Gambia, The:5.68 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Gaza Strip:6.42 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Georgia:1.45 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Germany:1.38 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Ghana:3.82 children born/woman (2001 est.)
Gibraltar:1.64 children born/woman (2001 est.)