The topography of Laos is largely mountainous, with the Annamite Range in the northeast and east and the Luang Prabang Range in the northwest, among other ranges typically characterized by steep terrain.

Nashville's topography ranges from above sea level at the Cumberland River to above sea level at its highest point.

The combination of tropical latitude, mountain ranges, topography variations and two ocean currents ( Humboldt and El Niño ) gives Peru a large diversity of climates.

The topography surrounding Saint John is hilly ; a result of the influence of two coastal mountain ranges which run along the Bay of Fundy – the St. Croix Highlands and the Caledonia Highlands.

Each of the dominant land features — the inland plateau, the encircling mountain ranges, and the coastal lowlands — exhibits a wide range of variation in topography and in natural resources.

Despite the fact that eastern Bolivia is described a lowland in when seeing the general topography of the country there are mountains and mountain ranges well beyond the Andes.

# Directly against the western border with Baker County, the topography ranges from fairly flat to slightly elevated.

The topography in Maricopa is flat with several mountain ranges 10 to 20 miles away.

The Great Basin includes valleys, basins, lakes, and mountain ranges of Basin and Range topography.

The province's topography is characterized by low, grooved mountain ranges which mostly lie close to the shoreline.

The state has a tropical savanna climate designated Aw under the Köppen climate classification, although the undulating topography leads to local variations particularly in the hill ranges.

The topography is extremely rugged, and these three ranges contain the highest peaks in the southern Ouachitas, including several that rise well over 2300 feet, with the tallest being Raspberry Mountain at 2367 feet.

The Municipality of Rodriguez is generally very rough in topography, with eighty three percent ( 83 %) of its total land area composed of upland areas, hills and mountain ranges.

The Manawatu District has a much gentler topography, consisting mainly of the flat, tree-studded Manawatu Plains that run between the ranges and the sea.

The topography in the Umfolozi section ranges from the lowlands of the Umfolozi River beds to steep hilly country, which includes some wide and deep valleys.

Its diverse topography ranges from the volcanic Tibesti Mountains to the Bodélé Depression, a vast Holocene lake-bed that is one of the Earth's strongest dust storm producing regions.

When real world city terrain topography is included in these weapon effects calculations the lethal ranges are downgraded considerably.

* The Thumb's landscape ranges from a flat sandy plain, that hugs the shores of Lake Huron and Saginaw Bay, to a gently rolling topography, which is fertile and well suited for agriculture.

To the southeast, the range merges with the San Rafael Mountains in a complex topography of unnamed ranges, the highest point of which is Big Pine Mountain (), the highest point in Santa Barbara County.

Geomorphologically, the municipality is dominated by steeped and inclined topography, except in the Machico valley ( where slopes are gentle ), formed by two mountain ranges: in the east Pico do Facho and to the west the Queimada plateau.

The BDFFP reserves are found in non-flooded tropical lowland rainforest where soils are nutrient-poor and the topography ranges from 50 to 150 m in elevation ( Bruna and Kress 2001 ).

The topography of the land is characterized from plains to rolling hills and steep mountain ranges.

From the south to the central portion moving towards the north and northwestern areas are mountain ranges, canyons, and high relief topography, including part of Mt.

Two creeks of the River Torrens run through a gradually sloping plain from the ranges, there is much variation in land use and topography.

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

Internal evidence from the poems gives evidence of familiarity with the topography and place-names of this area of Asia Minor, for example, Homer refers to meadow birds at the mouth of the Caystros, a storm in the Icarian sea, and mentions that women in Maeonia and Caria stain ivory with scarlet.

Water supplies from wells in karst topography may be unsafe, as the water may have run unimpeded from a sinkhole in a cattle pasture, through a cave and to the well, bypassing the normal filtering that occurs in a porous aquifer.

Because of this topography, the ocean cannot be seen from much of Malden's interior.

Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia (; 1499 / 1500, Brescia – 13 December 1557, Venice ) was an Italian mathematician, engineer ( designing fortifications ), a surveyor ( of topography, seeking the best means of defense or offense ) and a bookkeeper from the then-Republic of Venice ( now part of Italy ).

This leads to a height variation and thus the image comes from the tip topography across the sample and gives a constant charge density surface ; this means contrast on the image is due to variations in charge density.

However, strong topographic contrast is produced by collecting back-scattered electrons from one side above the specimen using an asymmetrical, directional BSE detector ; the resulting contrast appears as illumination of the topography from that side.

The physical environment of Uzbekistan is diverse, ranging from the flat, desert topography that comprises almost 80 % of the country's territory to mountain peaks in the east reaching about above sea level.

By topography and other natural features, Ural is divided, from north to south, into the Polar ( or Arctic ), Nether-Polar ( or Sub-Arctic ), Northern, Central and Southern parts.

Although the country lies wholly within the tropics, its climate varies from tropical humid to alpine, depending on the elevation, topography, and the direction and intensity of prevailing winds.

The evidence suggests that Sparta, relatively inaccessible because of the topography of the Taygetan plain, was secure from early on: it was never fortified.

Many tornadoes are not audible from much distance ; the nature and propagation distance of the audible sound depends on atmospheric conditions and topography.

In the western parts of the sea ( close to Bear Island ), this front is determined by the bottom topography and is therefore relatively sharp and stable from year to year, while in the east ( towards Novaya Zemlya ), it can be quite diffuse and its position can vary a lot between years.

The United States, Japan, and many EU countries protect the topography of semiconductor chips and integrated circuits under sui generis laws, some of whose aspects are borrowed from patent or copyright law.

A survey on their maritime archaeology and topography from the Prehistoric to the Roman periods, British Archaeological Reports, International Series 1181, Oxford.

The orbiters ' primary scientific objectives were to image the Martian surface and clouds, determine the temperature on Mars, study the topography, composition and physical properties of the surface, measure properties of the atmosphere, monitor the solar wind and the interplanetary and Martian magnetic fields, and act as communications relays to send signals from the landers to Earth.

Due to the city's varied topography and influence from the prevailing summer marine layer, weather conditions can vary by as much as 9 ° F ( 5 ° C ) from block to block.

* 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.

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

The Thimphu valley, so formed, is delimited by a steep eastern ridge that rises from the riverbed and a valley formation with gradually sloping topography, extending from Dechencholing and Simtokha, on the western banks of the Thimphu Chuu.