List of the physiographic regions

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The landforms of Earth are generally divided into physiographic divisions, 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
		Western Newfoundland Mountains	Newfoundland Coastal Lowland
		Piedmont province	Piedmont Upland
		Piedmont province	Piedmont Lowlands
		Blue Ridge province	Northern section
		Blue Ridge province	Southern section
		Valley And Ridge province	Tennessee section
			Middle section
			Hudson Valley
		St. Lawrence Valley	Champlain section
		St. Lawrence Valley	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
	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
	Innuitian Region	Western High Arctic
	Interior Highlands	Ozark Plateaus	Springfield-Salem Plateaus
		Ozark Plateaus	Boston Mountains
		Ouachita province	Arkansas Valley
		Ouachita province	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
Mackenzie Delta		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
Prairie Grasslands		Saskatchewan Hills
Southern Boreal Plains And Plateaus		Alberta Plateau
Southern Boreal Plains And Plateaus		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
		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 Mountains	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
	Southern 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
Antarctica	West Antarctica
Australia	East Australian Basins	Carpentaria Basin	Gulf of Carpentaria
		Carpentaria Basin	Kynuna Platform
		Great Artesian Basin	Wilcannia Threshold
		Murray Basin	Naracoorte Platform
		Murray Basin	Encounter Shelf
	East Australian Cordillera	Cape York Platform	Coen Belt
		Cape York Platform	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
		Central Queensland Highlands	Buckland Basalt Tablelands
		Rockhampton-Brisbane Belt	Maryborough Basin
		Rockhampton-Brisbane Belt	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
		Gippsland	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
		Barkly Tableland	Sandover-Pituri Platform
		Mount Isa-Cloncurry Fold Belt
MacDonnell Fold Belt
Amadeus Sunkland
Musgrave Block
Nurrari Plain
Eucla Basin		Eyre Coastal Plain
Eucla Basin		Eucla Shelf
Gawler Block		Stuart Range Basin
Gawler Block		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
		Black Sea-Azov 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
	Central Iranian Plateau	Dasht-e Lut
	Pontus Mountains
	Taurus Mountains
	Anatolian Plateau
Fertile Crescent
West Siberian Plain	Taiga
West Siberian Plain	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
Northern Asian Mountains	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

↑ "Physiographic divisions of the conterminous U.S.". U.S. Geological Survey. http://water.usgs.gov/GIS/metadata/usgswrd/XML/physio.xml. Retrieved 2007-12-06.
↑ "Physiographic & Landform – World, U.S.". Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Archived from the original on 2007-10-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20071012084013/http://www.lib.iup.edu/depts/govdocs/maps/PhysioLandform.htm. Retrieved 2007-12-07.
↑ "The Atlas of Canada – physiographic regions". http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/reference/anniversary_maps/physiographicregions. Retrieved 2007-12-07.
↑ "Defining Physiographic Realms and Regions: The Spatial Variation of Landscapes". Oxford University Press. http://www.oupcanada.com/higher_education/companion/geography/9780195425451/student_resources/study_guide/unit_52.html. Retrieved 2009-11-29.
↑ Fichter, Lynn S. (1999). "A Description of the Geology of Virginia". James Madison University. http://csmres.jmu.edu/geollab/vageol/vahist/PhysProv.html. Retrieved 2007-12-07.
↑ Bluemle, John; Biek, Bob (2007). "No Ordinary Plain: North Dakota's Physiography and Landforms". North Dakota Geological Survey. https://www.dmr.nd.gov/ndgs/ndnotes/ndn1.htm. Retrieved 2007-12-07.
↑ Sometimes is considered a section of Carpathians province.

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[USGS-Water-1] "Physiographic divisions of the conterminous U.S.". U.S. Geological Survey. http://water.usgs.gov/GIS/metadata/usgswrd/XML/physio.xml. Retrieved 2007-12-06.

[Maps-2] "Physiographic & Landform – World, U.S.". Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Archived from the original on 2007-10-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20071012084013/http://www.lib.iup.edu/depts/govdocs/maps/PhysioLandform.htm. Retrieved 2007-12-07.

[3] "The Atlas of Canada – physiographic regions". http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/reference/anniversary_maps/physiographicregions. Retrieved 2007-12-07.

[4] "Defining Physiographic Realms and Regions: The Spatial Variation of Landscapes". Oxford University Press. http://www.oupcanada.com/higher_education/companion/geography/9780195425451/student_resources/study_guide/unit_52.html. Retrieved 2009-11-29.

[5] Fichter, Lynn S. (1999). "A Description of the Geology of Virginia". James Madison University. http://csmres.jmu.edu/geollab/vageol/vahist/PhysProv.html. Retrieved 2007-12-07.

[6] Bluemle, John; Biek, Bob (2007). "No Ordinary Plain: North Dakota's Physiography and Landforms". North Dakota Geological Survey. https://www.dmr.nd.gov/ndgs/ndnotes/ndn1.htm. Retrieved 2007-12-07.

[7] Sometimes is considered a section of Carpathians province.

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