Because of its mountainous topography and lack of development, Laos has few reliable transportation routes.

The principal feature of the bathymetry ( bottom topography ) is a submarine mountain range called the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

Grazing and pasture land is limited because of the steep and rocky topography of the Alps.

There is a much greater emphasis on capturing atmosphere, rather than depicting topography.

To the north and west, the topography is mountainous ; this is the area of the five Angus Glens, is sparsely populated and the main industry is hill-farming.

Berlin is situated in northeastern Germany, approximately west of the Polish border, in an area of low-lying marshy woodlands with a mainly flat topography, part of the vast Northern European Plain which stretches all the way from northern France to western Russia.

The topography of the island consists of dramatic rock formations in the north ( unlike the rest of Denmark which is very flat with few hills and no mountains ), sloping down towards “ pine and deciduous forests ” ( greatly damaged by storms in the 1950s ) and farmland in the middle and sandy beaches in the south.

The country's topography is generally flat, with the elevation gradually rising as one moves north and east away from Lake Chad.

The only topography on it is the River Thames, letting the reader know whether a station is north or south of the river.

The lost energy is converted into alternative forms such as heat, emission of low-energy secondary electrons and high-energy backscattered electrons, light emission ( cathodoluminescence ) or X-ray emission, which provide signals carrying information about the properties of the specimen surface, such as its topography and composition.

However, the topography other than coastlines and major rivers is quite different, and the only apparent reference to the real world besides the map may be the Blood Wood, known as " Wyrm Wood " before the Scourge and similar in location and extent to the Chernobyl ( Ukrainian for " wormwood ") Zone of alienation.

It is volcanic in origin and its topography / land scape is mountainous.

In the auto congested urban areas of Hong Kong and Kowloon, cycling is less common, despite the relatively flat topography of populated areas, in part because it is government policy not to support cycling as part of the transportation system.

To the west of the mountains is the rugged terrain of the Cockpit Country, one of the world's most dramatic examples of karst topography.

Transport in Kyrgyzstan is severely constrained by the country's alpine topography.

Karst topography is a geological formation shaped by the dissolution of a layer or layers of soluble bedrock, usually carbonate rock such as limestone or dolomite, but has also been documented for weathering resistant rocks, such as quartzite, given the right conditions.

The international community has settled on karst, the German name for Kras, a region in Slovenia partially extending into Italy, where it is called " Carso " and where the first scientific research of a karst topography was made.

A major feature of Lebanese topography is the alternation of lowland and highland that runs generally parallel with a north-to-south orientation.

The topography of the country is divided very clearly between the hilly Oesling of the northern third of the Grand Duchy and the flat Gutland, which occupies the southern two-thirds.

The area ’ s notoriously harsh weather, dramatic underwater topography, the island ’ s central location on historic shipping routes, and the cold, fresh water have culminated in largely intact, well preserved wrecks throughout the park.

The province, with an area of, has a largely continental climate because of its flat topography.

It has many tributaries that flow from the Himalayan peaks that largely dictate the topography of the Thimphu valley.

Thus, the topography is mostly level to undulating coastal plain, largely made up of sandhills and coastal dunes with elevations above mean sea level that vary from 60 feet in the extreme southeastern portion of the county to 250 feet in the north, to the west of Parkton, North Carolina.

Sewers, schools and street development kept pace with this massive increase, largely due to Plano's flat topography, grid layout and planning initiatives.

The topography of Saitama Prefecture is largely divided by the Hachiōji Tectonic Line, which runs through Kodama, Ogawa, and Hannō, into the western mountain area and the eastern lowland area.

On the coast of Northern Ostrobothnia, the topography remains flat, but instead of fields of Central and Southern Ostrobothnia, the land is largely covered with marsh.

During the period when Corot acquired the means to devote himself to art, landscape painting was on the upswing and generally divided into two camps: one ― historical landscape by Neoclassicists in Southern Europe representing idealized views of real and fancied sites peopled with ancient, mythological, and biblical figures ; and two ― realistic landscape, more common in Northern Europe, which was largely faithful to actual topography, architecture, and flora, and which often showed figures of peasants.

A landform in the earth sciences and geology sub-fields, comprises a geomorphological unit, and is largely defined by its surface form and location in the landscape, as part of the terrain, and as such, is typically an element of topography.

Known as a streetcar suburb, Oak Cliff's characteristic twists and turns are largely due to the area's topography, and the paths and turnabouts created by the streetcar service.

It remained largely unmapped until Arthur Dodwell and Theodore Rixon mapped most of its topography and timber resources between 1898 and 1900.

In addition to his fiction, Besant wrote largely on the history and topography of London.

In the late 1930s, despite its coastal holiday industry, distant and near water fishing industries, iron mining and smelting, heavy machinery manufacturing, the country's main road and railway lines and growing number of airfields, Lincolnshire was large enough to give an impression of being a largely unvisited, peaceful agricultural backwater until the Second World War, when its extent, gentle topography and relative proximity to the enemy led to a further expansion in the number of Royal Air Force stations in the county.

Since this distinction is largely by topography rather than true distance, several " outer suburbs " ( such as Wakari and Halfway Bush ) lie as close to the city centre as some inner suburbs ( such as those in the North East and Leith Valleys ) and share many of their features.

It is unique to Virginia in containing both Appalachian Plateau and Ridge and Valley topography ; although, it is largely a karstic landform of the Ridge and Valley Province.

Hoffmann is largely responsible for introducing topography to the United States.

The Duman River, one of the few major rivers to flow into the Sea of Japan, is the second longest at 521 kilometers but is navigable for only 85 kilometers because of the mountainous topography.

Transport in New Zealand, with its mountainous topography and a relatively small population mostly located near its long coastline, has always faced many challenges.

The interaction of these elements with the state's topography creates distinct microclimates in the Shenandoah Valley, the mountainous southwest, and the coastal plains.

Mostly hilly or mountainous, its topography is dominated by the Apennines, with the highest point in the region at Monte Vettore on the border of the Marche, at, and the Tiber valley basin, with the lowest point at Attigliano,.

* A motive for the Gadsden Purchase of land from Mexico in 1853 was to provide suitable terrain for a southern transcontinental railroad, since the topography of the southern portion of the existing Mexican Cession land was too mountainous.

Their mountainous topography causes one of the most diverse climates in that region.

The topography of Iran consists of rugged, mountainous rims surrounding high interior basins.

Road accidents still occur frequently and, because of the steep mountainous topography, are typically horrific.

Various environmental elements collectively create a recipe for natural disasters: the mountainous and geologically unstable terrain ; seasonal rainstorms that result in dense vegetation growth ; seasonal dry Santa Ana winds ; and a naturally dry topography and climate.

Although Madrid's northern topography is mountainous, other parts suited cultivation.

Much of the topography is uneven, with the northern portion mountainous.

They thought the topography of the southern portion of the Mexican Cession was too mountainous to allow a direct route.

In this mountainous region with a diversified topography, 90 % of the rivers of the Paraguaçu, Jacuípe and Rio das Contas basins have their source here.

The topography is rugged and mountainous, becoming more pronounced towards the central portion of the island.

The relationship between broadcasting power and signal range is a function of many things, such as the frequency band it uses e. g., Medium Wave shortwave or FM, the topography of the geographical area in which it operates ( mountainous or flat ), atmospheric conditions, and finally the amount of radio frequency energy it transmits.

Tourism in Albania is characterized by archaeological heritage from Greek, Roman and Ottoman times, unspoiled beaches, mountainous topography, delicious traditional Albanian cuisine, Cold War era artifacts, unique traditions and hospitality, and the wild and peculiar atmosphere of the countryside.

The topography changes from the plains, near river Rhine and Lake Constance, towards the mountainous areas of the Alps in the south ( Appenzell Alps and Glarus Alps ).

The town's old name, Montalban, refers to its mountainous topography.

The generally level topography of the NYC system had a character distinctively different than the mountainous terrain of its arch rival, the Pennsylvania Railroad.

In the west, the Rowd-e Lurah River originates in the mountainous Omna District and flows southwest to the Ghazni Province, forming a shallow river valley that dominates the topography in the Zarghun Shar, Jani Khel, and Dila Districts.

The topography of Oudomxay is very mountainous.