The Black Sea coast is characterized by a range of steep mountains that extend along the entire length of the coast, separating it from the inland Anatolian plateau.

The Anatolian plateau is interspersed with extinct volcanoes, the tallest of which is Mt.

There also is extensive grazing throughout the plateau.

The driest part of the region is the semiarid center of the plateau which receives an average yearly precipitation of.

It is a region of rolling hills and a broad plateau surface that extends into Syria.

A central massif composed of uplifted blocks and downfolded troughs, covered by recent deposits and giving the appearance of a plateau with rough terrain, is wedged between two folded mountain ranges that converge in the east.

The central plateau is characterized by a continental climate, with hot summers and cold snowy winters.

The plateau is masked by intermediate mountain ranges and extinct volcanoes.

The Piedmont Plateau is a lowland worn down by erosion on hard crystalline rocks, then uplifted to form a plateau.

The South African plateau, as far as about 12 ° S, is bounded east, west and south by bands of high ground which fall steeply to the coasts.

Due south the plateau rim is formed by three parallel steps with level ground between them.

The largest of these level areas, the Great Karoo, is a dry, barren region, and a large tract of the plateau proper is of a still more arid character and is known as the Kalahari Desert.

The South African plateau is connected towards East African plateau, with probably a slightly greater average elevation, and marked by some distinct features.

Aarau is situated on the Swiss plateau, in the valley of the Aar, on the river's right bank, and at the southern foot of the Jura mountains, and is west of Zurich.

Lajes Field is a plateau rising out of the sea on the northeast corner of the island.

The province's mainland away from the coastal regions is not as moderated by the Pacific Ocean and ranges from desert and semi-arid plateau to the range and canyon districts of the Central and Southern Interior to boreal forest and sub-arctic prairie in the Northern Interior.

The terrain of Burundi is hilly and mountainous, dropping to a plateau in the east.

To the northwest is the Yade Massif, a granite plateau with an altitude of.

The vast, low-lying central area is a basin-shaped plateau sloping toward the west, covered by tropical rainforest and criss-crossed by rivers, a large area of this has been categorised by the World Wildlife Fund as the Central Congolian lowland forests ecoregion.

A clear rock painting in Ginga Wardelirrhmeng, on the northern edge of the Arnhem Land plateau, from the freshwater period For example, Jemima Wimalu, a Mara woman from the Roper River is very proficient at playing the didgeridoo and is featured on the record Aboriginal Sound Instruments released in 1978.

In addition to purely canal traffic, there was a lively freight interchange with the Cromford and High Peak Railway, which traversed the plateau of the Peak District from Whaley Bridge in the north west, and which descended to the canal at High Peak Junction by means of an inclined plane.

These settlers landed at Agno, proceeded up the river and settled in the wide plateau covered with virgin forest which was traversed by a stream now called " Amborayan ".

The two largest basins on the plateau are the Konya Ovasi and the basin occupied by the large salt lake, Tuz Gölü.

For example, Madagascar's central highland plateau has become virtually totally barren ( about ten percent of the country ), as a result of slash-and-burn deforestation, an element of shifting cultivation practiced by many natives.

Both in the east and west of the continent the bordering highlands are continued as strips of plateau parallel to the coast, the Ethiopian mountains being continued northwards along the Red Sea coast by a series of ridges reaching in places a height of.

by the Atlas range, to the northeast a rocky plateau separates it from the Mediterranean ; this plateau gives place at the extreme east to the delta of the Nile.

Along the Ramillies – Offus – Autre Eglise ridge-line, Villeroi positioned Walloon and Bavarian infantry, supported by the Elector of Bavaria's 50 squadrons of Bavarian and Walloon cavalry placed behind on the plateau of Mont St. André.

Shielded as they were from observation by a slight fold in the land, their commander, Brigadier-General Van Pallandt, ordered the regimental colours to be left in place on the edge of the plateau to convince their opponents they were still in their initial position.

vast central plateau covered by tropical rainforest, surrounded by mountains in the west, plains and savanna in the south / southwest, and grasslands in the north.

The desert's Jilf al Kabir Plateau, at a mean altitude of some 1000 m, constitutes an exception to the uninterrupted territory of basement rocks covered by layers of horizontally bedded sediments forming a massive plain or low plateau.

The hilly, forest-covered landscape of the lake plateau is dominated by drumlins and by long sinuous eskers, both glacial remnants.

The Table Mountain Cableway takes passengers from the lower cable station on Tafelberg Road, about 302 m above sea level, to the plateau at the top of the mountain.

Wheeler is directly adjacent to Schofield Barracks across Kunia Road and to Wahiawā on the central plateau of the Island of O ' ahu.

When discussing the evolution of the heavily armored horseman, it should be noted that it was not isolated to one focal point during a specific era ( such as the Iranian plateau ), but rather developed simultaneously in different parts of Central Asia ( especially among the peoples inhabiting the Silk Road ) as well as within the Iranian subcontinent.

After the ascent of the eastern escarpment by the Main Western Railway was deviated for the second time in 1913 to its current route via Glenbrook Gorge, the Great Western Road was also deviated at this point for a second time in 1926 by the then Main Roads Board, which rerouted it via the disused 1867 stone arch railway viaduct across Knapsack Gully and around the southern side of Lapstone Hill to gain the first plateau in the ascent of the Blue Mountains.

Seen from the north the edge of this plateau has the appearance of a range of hills, at the foot of which ( on the Koderma plateau ) runs Grand Trunk Road / NH 2.

It is situated on a hill and occupies most of a plateau which falls away sharply to the west ( towards Dewsbury Road ) and in the park to the north of Town Street from where there are extensive views towards the city centre.

Several small streams, some of which ultimately rise to the north at elevations of almost, come together to create the main stem of the creek amid the fields and woodlots on the high plateau just in Gainesville just south of the Warsaw town line, a short distance west of Silver Spring Road.

More eastern segments of the road, identifiable in present-day northern Iran, were not noted by Herodotus, whose view of Persia was that of an Ionian Greek in the West ; stretches of the Royal Road across the central plateau of Iran are coincident with the major trade route known as the Silk Road.

The Bishops Road, named after the Bishop of Derry, extends across the plateau.

700 BC, this collection of objects illustrates the situation of the Iranian plateau as a crossroads of cultural highways — not least of them the Silk Road — which fused disparate cultures to inform early Iranian art.

The high plateau is formed by the Wicklow Ridge to Reagh's Hill in the east, Bedford Road and Maroondah Highway in the south, and the Loughnan's Hill, Wonga Road ridge to the west.