Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock According to COUNTRYAAH, Paraguay is divided through the Paraguay River into two different natural regions, East and West Paraguay. Eastern Paraguay is the smaller part and is a continuation to the south of the Brazilian highlands....
According to COUNTRYAAH, Papua New Guinea encompasses the eastern half of New Guinea. The island is approx. 785 000 km 2 and separated from Australia by the Torres Strait and Lake Arafura. Islands and atolls To the north and northeast of...
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock According to COUNTRYAAH, Panama is the easternmost part of the Central American strip of land. Of its three natural regions, the hot lowland area comprises about 85%. It is lower than 700 m above sea level....
Nature According to COUNTRYAAH, Palau’s island world is largely surrounded by an elongated coral reef, and many of the islands are also coral islands. However, the largest island, Babelthuap, has bedrock formed by volcanism and reaches up to more than 200...
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock The central natural region of Pakistan is the Indus plain, which is also the most important from an economic point of view. It is mainly made up of fertile river deposits and is crossed in its...
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock The al-Hajar mountain range in the north, which in the massif Jabal al-Akhdar reaches 3,018 m above sea level, is separated from the Oman Bay by a narrow alluvial plain. To the south, a large stone...
Nature Terrain Types Norway’s long coast is unique to Europe and offers impressive scenery where the sides of the fjords rise like high, almost vertical walls, often adorned with foamy waterfalls. On the continental shelf outside there are more than 50,000...
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock In the central part of Northern Macedonia, a lowland, which flows through the river Vardar with its tributaries, spreads, among other things. Crna and Bregalnica. Here plateaus dominate from 600 to 900 m above sea level,...
On February 16, 1948, the establishment of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea was proclaimed in Pyongyang. The leader of the Korean Workers’ Party (KAP), Kim Il Sung was inaugurated as the country’s first prime minister. The story up to independence...
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock According to COUNTRYAAH, Nigeria is on the lower part of the African mountain plateau. The country consists mostly of plateaus that are old erosion surfaces at different heights and the central river valley system of the...
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock Three different natural regions can be distinguished in Niger. In the north, a highland is spreading, where the Aïr massif and the Djado plateau dominate with its peak heights of 1,900-2,000 meters above sea level. They...
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock According to COUNTRYAAH, the Central American part of the Cordillarians meets the interior, most of Nicaragua, and on both sides of this highland coastal plains are spreading. The inner, mountainous part between 600-100 m above sea...
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock According to Abbreviationfinder, New Zealand was originally part of the supercontinent Gondwana, and its oldest rocks are from the upper Precambrian. By continental displacement, a system of arches and deep-sea tombs was formed under carbon. Many...
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock According to COUNTRYAAH, most of the Netherlands is a low lying plain, covered by thick layers of loose soils. Only in the border area to the Ardennes at the far south-east is the terrain higher and...
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock Topographically, Nepal forms a steep transition between the Himalayas and the northern Indian plains. The height differences are therefore very large and Nepal can accommodate a wide range of landforms and types of habitat. At the...
Nature According to COUNTRYAAH, Nauru is an oval atoll with a central plateau, composed mainly of coral limestone with layers of guano. The plateau, which reaches up to about 65 m above sea level, is very rich in phosphate and is...
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock Inside the coast there is a 70-160 km wide belt, the Namib Desert, which consists mostly of sandy fields, migratory caves and mountain blots. It is highest in the north with several granite mountains, among others....
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock The main features of the terrain in Burma are entirely determined by the north-south bedrock structures that emerged during the folding of this eastern part of the Himalayas. The country also has a general slope from...
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock The Zambezi River with the Cabora Bassa Dam divides Mozambique into a low, southern part with a wavy surface and a plateau-like, higher part in the north and northwest. The former forms southern Africa’s largest coastal...
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock According to COUNTRYAAH, Morocco’s bedrock has been folded in connection with the Eurasian continent colliding with Africa, and the country is largely occupied by the western parts of the Atlas Mountain. Rifatlas at the far north...
Nature According to BRIDGAT, Montenegro has a remarkably rich plant and animal life due to the great topographic variation, different climates and the geographical position on the border between different ecological zones. The country has 7,000–8,000 vascular plants (of which about...
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock According to COUNTRYAAH, Mongolia is a highland with an average height of nearly 1,600 m above sea level. The northern part of the country is dominated by three long mountain ranges. The longest and highest, Altaj,...
Nature According to COUNTRYAAH, the Monaco Cliff is a steep limestone cliff with abundant, subtropical vegetation. The Monte Carlo cliff is not as steep; previously there were former limestone caves, which are now destroyed. According to BRIDGAT, the climate is a...
Nature According to COUNTRYAAH, Moldova is part of the Russian platform and is mainly confined by the river Prut in the west, which joins the Danube at the far south. In the eastern part flows Dnestr; both rivers and several smaller...
Nature Most of the islands are atolls and consist of volcanic rocks deposited with coral lime. They often have a thin fertile soil layer. However, Yap, farthest to the west, is of continental origin and has been formed by folding the...
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock According to COUNTRYAAH, Mexico has a complex topography with lively volcanic and seismic activity. In central Mexico, the Mexican high plateau is composed of two parts: Mesa del Norte, which extends from the northern border (where...
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock According to COUNTRYAAH, the islands volcanic bedrock has been built up over the last 30 million years. The erosion has worn down the volcanic canyons so that the country’s highest point, Piton de la Petite Rivière...
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock The coastal area of the Atlantic consists of beach tracks, lagoons and dunes. The material transport takes place southwards by means of the Canary stream. Inside the beach is a wide coastal plain that reaches 50...
Nature Geologically, the Marshall Islands have been built from the beginning as volcanoes, which have dropped. At the same rate, the corals have been able to grow upwards. Islands like Bikini can be considered the final stage in the development of...
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock According to COUNTRYAAH, Malta is located on a seabed that extends from Sicily to Tunisia. The islands are built up of tertiary sand and limestone deposits, which slope slightly to the northeast. The southwest part of...
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock According to COUNTRYAAH, northern Mali is part of the Sahara, while the southern part of the country belongs to the Sudan region. The oldest bedrock is found in the Iforasberg rounded granite cliffs in the northeast....
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock According to COUNTRYAAH, the Maldives are made up of a wide range of coral islands, located on the deep-sea spine of the Maldives. The individual islands have been built on volcanic canoes and volcanic ridges that...
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock According to COUNTRYAAH, Western Malaysia is penetrated by a number of parallel, north-south mountain ranges. The highest reaches with Tahan 2,189 meters above sea level. About half of the area’s area is more than 150 meters...
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock The long and narrow Malawi lake, whose surface is 474 meters above sea level, forms most of the country’s border to the east. According to COUNTRYAAH, the rest of Malawi has a topography that varies greatly,...
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock According to COUNTRYAAH, most of Madagascar consists of a centrally located highland with a north-south ridge, which lies to the east, parallel to the coast. The coastal area to the east is therefore narrow, about 50...
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock According to COUNTRYAAH, Luxembourg is often divided into a northern area, Ösling, which covers one third of the country, and Gutland, which comprises the southern two-thirds. The eastern border of the country is marked by the...
Attractions in Los Angeles Los Angeles is a giant city and of course offers a variety of sights and attractions. Of course, neither the United States nor Los Angeles are traveling to see a city full of ancient history. Here you...
Attractions in London You can probably visit London several times a year throughout your life without taking in all the attractions and sights. There is so much to choose from that we should be very careful to say that the attractions...
Attractions in Ljubljana For many, walking around the old town of Ljubljana is the biggest attraction in itself. Strolling around in narrow cobbled streets surrounded by small houses with baroque facades, and then finding open spaces with beautiful fountains and bustling...
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock According to COUNTRYAAH, Lithuania is mainly a low lying plain, covered with a thick moraine layer. The bedrock consists of sedimentary rocks and has very little significance for the design of the topography. It is the...
