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List of physiographic regions

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The landforms of Earth are generally divided into physiographic regions, consisting of physiographic provinces, which in turn consist of physiographic sections,[1][2][3] though some others use different terminology, such as realms, regions and subregions.[4] Some areas have further categorized their respective areas into more detailed subsections.[5][6]

Landmass Region / Division Province Section


Africa African Alpine System[citation needed] Atlas Mountains Mediterranean Atlas
Southern Atlas
High Interior Plateaus
Canary Islands
African massive[citation needed] Sahara Central Sahara Domes
Encircling Plateaus And Lowlands
Central Sahara Ergs
Western Sahara
Eastern Sahara
Sudan Niger Basin
Chad Basin
Middle Nile Basin
Mid-African West Guinea Highlands
Guinea Coast
Cameroon Mountains
Ubangi-Shari Upland
South Guinea Highlands
Coastal Lowlands
Congo Basin
South African Platform[citation needed]
Kalahari Region Encircling Uplands
Lunda Swell
Matabele Upland
Veldt
High Karroo
Damara-Nama Upland
Namib Desert
Cape Mountains
Natal Terrace Belt
Mozambique Plain
Madagascar
East African Highlands[citation needed] Rift Valley Coastal Belt
High Interior Plateau
Western Rift Belt
Eastern Rift Belt
Abyssinian Somali Plateau
Ethiopian Massif
Abyssinian Graben
Etbai Range


Americas Appalachian Atlantic Coast Uplands
Eastern Newfoundland Atlantic
Maritime Acadian Highlands
Maritime Plain
Notre Dame and Mégantic Mountains
Western Newfoundland Mountains Newfoundland Highlands
Newfoundland Coastal Lowland
Piedmont province Piedmont Upland
Piedmont Lowlands
Blue Ridge province Northern section
Southern section
Valley And Ridge province Tennessee section
Middle section
Hudson Valley
St. Lawrence Valley Champlain section
Northern section
Appalachian Plateaus province Mohawk section
Catskill section
Southern New York section
Allegheny Mountain section
Kanawha section
Cumberland Plateau section
Cumberland Mountain section
New England province Seaboard Lowland section
New England Upland section
White Mountain section
Green Mountain section
Taconic section
Arctic Lowlands Eastern Arctic Lowlands
Western Arctic Lowlands
Atlantic Plain Continental Shelf
Coastal Plain Embayed section
Sea Island section
Floridian section
East Gulf Coastal Plain
Mississippi Alluvial Plain
West Gulf Coastal Plain
Gulf Coast Plain And Yucatan Peninsula
Canadian Shield Laurentian Upland Superior Upland
Adirondack province
Kazan
Davis
Hudson Hudson Bay Lowlands
James
Innuitian Region Eastern High Arctic Glacier
Western High Arctic
Interior Highlands Ozark Plateaus Springfield-Salem Plateaus
Boston Mountains
Ouachita province Arkansas Valley
Ouachita Mountains
Interior Plains Interior Low Plateaus Highland Rim section
Lexington Plain
Nashville Basin
Great Plains Missouri Plateau, Glaciated
Missouri Plateau, Unglaciated
Black Hills
High Plains
Plains Border
Arctic Coastal Plain
Colorado Piedmont
Raton section
Pecos Valley
Edwards Plateau
Central Texas section
Central Lowland Dissected Till Plains
Eastern Lake section
Osage Plains
Till Plains
Western Lake section
Wisconsin Driftless section
Mackenzie Delta Mackenzie River
Yukon Coastal Plain
Manitoba Lowlands
Northern Boreal Plains Great Slave Plain
Great Bear Plain
Anderson Plain
Peel Plain And Plateau
Colville Hills
Prairie Grasslands Alberta Plain
Saskatchewan Hills
Southern Boreal Plains And Plateaus Alberta Plateau
Saskatchewan Plain
Intermontane Plateaus Columbia Plateau Walla Walla Plateau
Blue Mountain section
Payette section
Snake River Plain
Harney section
Colorado Plateaus High Plateaus Of Utah
Uinta Basin
Canyon Lands
Navajo section
Grand Canyon section
Datil-Mogollon Section
Acoma-Zuni Section
Basin And Range Province Great Basin
Mojave DesertMojave Ranges
Salton TroughColorado Desert Ranges
Sonoran DesertSonoran Desert Ranges
Mexican Highland
Sacramento section
Mexican Altiplano
Northern Plateaus Interior Plateau
Yukon-Tanana Uplands Yukon Plateau
Cassiar Mountains
Skeena Mountains
Liard Plain
Hyland Plateau
Pelly Mountains
Pacific Coast Ranges Cascade-Sierra Mountains Northern Cascade Mountains
Middle Cascade Mountains
Southern Cascade Mountains
Sierra Nevada
Pacific Border province Aleutian Islands
Boundary Ranges
Puget Trough
Olympic Mountains
Oregon Coast Range
Klamath Mountains
California Trough
California Coast Ranges
Transverse Ranges (Los Angeles Mountains)
Lower California province Peninsular Ranges
Rocky Mountain System Wyoming Basin
Columbia Mountains Columbia Highlands
Interior Plateau
Southern Rocky Mountain Trench
Arctic Mountains Brooks Range
Arctic Foothills
Northern Rocky Mountains
Middle Rocky Mountains
Southern Rocky Mountains
Sierra Madre System Sierra Madre Occidental Lava (Rhyolite) Plateau
Sonoran High Ranges
Eastern Upland With Basins
Sierra Madre Oriental Northern section
The High Sierra
Cross Ranges
Lower Ranges
Sierra Madre del Sur Balsas-Mexcala Basin
Oaxaca Upland
Northeast Folded Ranges
Southern Slope
Northern section
Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt
Southern Mexican Highlands
Baja California Peninsula Peninsular Ranges
Southern Horst
Llano De La Magdalena
Colorado Delta
The Buried Ranges Sonoran Desert
Deltas
Sinaloa Coast
Piedmont Ranges
Central Meseta
Gulf Coastal Lowland
Neovolcanic Plateau
Chiapas-Guatemala Highlands
Gulf Coast Plain And Yucatan Peninsula Pitted Lowlands
Yucatan Platform
East Coast
Andean Mountain System Northern Andes Cordillera Occidental
Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
Cordillera Central
Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
Middle Magdalena Basin
Maracaibo Basin
Central Andes Cordillera Occidental
Atacama Desert
Altiplano
Cordillera Oriental
Southern Andes Fuegian Andes
Patagonian Andes
Andean Piedmont
Brazilian Highlands Brazilian Oldland
Goyaz Massif
Mato Grosso Plateau
Guiana Shield
Chiquitos Plateau
Parana Plateau
Coastal Plain
Guiana Highlands Guiana Coastal Plain
Amazon Plain Llanos De Mojos
Orinoco Basin
Parana-Paraguay Plain Gran Chaco
Pantanal
Argentine Mesopotamia
Pampas
Monte
Patagonian Plateau


Antarctica East Antarctica
West Antarctica


Australia East Australian Basins Carpentaria Basin Gulf of Carpentaria
Kynuna Platform
Great Artesian Basin Wilcannia Threshold
Murray Basin Naracoorte Platform
Encounter Shelf
East Australian Cordillera Cape York Platform Coen Belt
Torres Strait Islands
North Queensland Highlands Chillagoe Belt
Normanby Platform
Atherton Tableland
Mount Emu Lava Plains
Cairns Littoral
Great Barrier Reef Murray Islands
Central Queensland Highlands Bowen-Springsure Belt
Buckland Basalt Tablelands
Rockhampton-Brisbane Belt Maryborough Basin
Toowoomba Basalt Plateaus
New England Block Clarence Basin
Hunter-Hawkesbury Sunkland Sydney Basin
Warrumbungle-Liverpool Basalt Ranges
Blue Mountains
Central Highlands Of New South Wales Western Slopes
Cobar Platform
Kosciusko Massif Gourock-Monaro Belt
Eastern Victorian Highlands
Western Victorian Highlands Grampians
Western Basalt Plains Of Victoria Otway Hills
Gippsland South Gippsland Hills
Port Phillip Sunkland
Western Tasmanian Highlands Central Tasmanian Plateau
Bass-Midland Graben Bass Strait
Ben Lomond Block
Western Australian Shield Yilgarn Block Stirling-Mount Barren Block
Darling Hills
Recherche Shelf
Donnybrook Sunkland Naturaliste-Leeuwin Horst
Swan Coastal Belt Dandaragan Plateau
Greenough Block
Rottnest-Abrolhos Shelf
Carnarvon Basin Shark Bay-Byro Plains
Nullagine Platform Pilbara Block
Fortescue Rift
Hamersley Plateau
Onslow Coastal Plain
Dampier Rise
Canning Basin Pindan Country
Fitzroy Valley
Rowley Depression
Kimberly Block Wunaamin Miliwundi Range
Durack Range
Leveque Rise
Browse Depression
Londonderry Rise
Antrim Region Ord Basin
Cambridge Gulf Lowlands
Bonaparte Depression
Arnhem Block Pine Creek Belt
Van Dieman Rise
Arafura Shelf
Wessel Rise
Arunta-Sturt Block
Barkly Tableland Mueller Plateau
Sandover-Pituri Platform
Mount Isa-Cloncurry Fold Belt
MacDonnell Fold Belt
Amadeus Sunkland
Musgrave Block
Nurrari Plain
Eucla Basin Eyre Coastal Plain
Eucla Shelf
Gawler Block Stuart Range Basin
Pimba Platform
South Australian Shatter Belt Torrens Graben
Spencer Graben
Vincent Graben
Yorke Horst
Frome Graben
Willyama Block


Eurasia Fenno-Scandian Shield Norway Upland
Swedish Lowland
Lake Region
Karelian Trough
English Lowlands
Central European Uplands Hibernian Uplands
Cornish-Welsh Uplands
Pennine Chain
Scottish Highlands
Armorican Massive
South Central Plateau (Massif Central)
Central Plateau (Meseta Central)
Jura Range
Vosges Mountains and Black Forest Mountains
Swiss-Bavarian Plateau
Rhenish Massif
West Hesse Highlands
East Hesse Highlands
Weser Uplands
Bohemian Massif
Cantabrian Mountains
Alpine System Pyrenees
Alps Southern Alps
Western Alps
Eastern Alps
Cantabrian Mountains
Apennines
Ebro Lowlands
Volcanic Lowlands
Spanish Meseta
Dinaric-Grecian Mountains Pindus
Andalusian Lowlands
Corsardinian Highlands
Baetic Cordillera
Pannonian Basin Western Pannonian Plain
Eastern Pannonian Plain
Transylvanian Basin[7]
Central Balkan Ranges
Upper Thracian Plain
Carpathians Western Carpathians
Eastern Carpathians
Southern Carpathians
Serbian Carpathians
Western Romanian Carpathians
Crimean Mountains
Caucasus Greater Caucasus
Lesser Caucasus
Transcaucasian Depressian
Kolkhida Lowland
Great European Plain Aquitanian Plain
Netherlands
Northern European Lowlands
Polesian Lowland
Dnieper Lowland
Volhynian-Podolian Plateau Volhynian-Podolian Upland
Moldavian Plateau
Roztocze
Danubian Plain and Wallachian Plain
Black Sea-Azov Lowland Black Sea Lowland
Azov Lowland
Donets-Azov Upland Azov Upland
Donets Upland
Donets Ridge
Central Russian Upland
Central Russian Upland Kalach Upland
Oka–Don Lowland
Russian Plain
Ural Mountains Northern Urals
Central Urals
Southern Urals
Middle East Eastern Highlands Zagros Mountains
Bitlis Mountains
Kopet-Dag Mountains
Elburz Mountains Western Elburz
Central Elburz
Eastern Elburz
Central Iranian Plateau Dasht-e Kavir
Dasht-e Lut
Pontus Mountains
Taurus Mountains
Anatolian Plateau
Fertile Crescent
West Siberian Plain Taiga
Kazakh Steppe
Central Siberian Upland Yenisei Horst
Irkutsk Basin
Vilyuy Plain
Aldan Basin
Yakutsk Basin
Eastern Siberian Highlands Anadyr Highlands
Kolyma Mountains
Kamchatka Peninsula
Verkhoyansk Range
Aldan Highlands/Stanovoy Range
Sikhote-Alin Range
Sakhalin Island
Northern Asian Mountains Kentei Hills
Altai Mountains
Great Indian Plain
Himalayan Mountain System Hindu Kush Mountains
Lesser Himalayas
Great Himalayas
Tethys Himalayas
Pamirs
Tibetan Plateau
Deccan Plateau Western Ghats
Eastern Ghats
Nagpur Basin
Vindhya Range
Satpura Range
Bihar Hills
Central Asian Lowlands Taklamakan Desert
Baikal Basin
Junggar Basin
Gobi Desert
Qaidam Basin

References

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  1. ^ "Physiographic divisions of the conterminous U.S." U.S. Geological Survey. Retrieved 2007-12-06.
  2. ^ "Physiographic & Landform – World, U.S." Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Archived from the original on 2007-10-12. Retrieved 2007-12-07.
  3. ^ "The Atlas of Canada – physiographic regions". Retrieved 2007-12-07.
  4. ^ "Defining Physiographic Realms and Regions: The Spatial Variation of Landscapes". Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2009-11-29.
  5. ^ Fichter, Lynn S. (1999). "A Description of the Geology of Virginia". James Madison University. Retrieved 2007-12-07.
  6. ^ Bluemle, John; Biek, Bob (2007). "No Ordinary Plain: North Dakota's Physiography and Landforms". North Dakota Geological Survey. Retrieved 2007-12-07.
  7. ^ Sometimes is considered a section of Carpathians province.