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

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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
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

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.
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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