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famous geographical features
| Description | Name |
|---|---|
| waterway through Egypt, connecting Mediterranean to Red Sea | Suez Canal |
| world's longest mountain range, on the west coast of South America | Andes |
| volcano in Washington State, collapsed in 1980 | Mt. Saint Helens / Lawetlat'la |
| mountain range in maghreb region of north africa, bordering Atlantic and Mediterranean | Atlas mountains |
| mountain range between Caspian Sea and Black Sea, separating Russia from Georgia & Azerbaijan | Caucasus Mountains |
| river in the northeast of India and in Bangladesh, empties into the Bay of Bengal | Ganges |
| region including Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, and technically Ethiopia. south of Gulf of Aden | Horn of Africa |
| peninsula that juts into the south of the Gulf of Mexico | Yucatán peninsula |
| sea east of India and west of Myanmar | Bay of Bengal |
| sea between the UK and Scandinavia | North Sea |
| sea west of India and east of Arabian Peninsula | Arabian Ocean |
| sea in the northeast of Canada | Hudson Bay |
| channel connecting Arctic and Pacific oceans, where Russia and Alaska almost connect | Bering Strait |
| gulf in the southwest of Africa, encompassing coasts of Cote d'Ivoire to Namibia | Gulf of Guinea |
| sea off the east coast of the US. no land boundaries | Sargasso Sea |
| world's 2nd-largest freshwater lake. split between Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya | Lake Victoria |
| undecided between lake & sea. Russia & Azerbaijan to the east, Iran to the south, Kazakhstan & Turkmenistan west | Caspian Sea |
| massive plateau (world's highest and largest) in southeastern China, covering most of Tibetan Autonomous Region, as well as some parts of Sichuan. also intersection between India, Pakistan, Nepal | Tibetan Plateau |
| river running form South China to Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and finally Vietnam, emptying into South China Sea | Mekong river |
| desert spanning northern China & southern Mongolia. 6th-largest in world | Gobi Desert |
| highest mountain range in North America, stretching into US and Canada | Rocky Mountains |
| westernmost part of europe, made of Spain & Portugal | Iberian Peninsula |
| northeast of Mediterranean but south of Black Sea. mostly made up of Turkey | Anatolia (aka Asia Minor) |
| water between Australia and New Zealand (southeast of australia) | Tasman Sea |
| peninsula. part of Ukraine. in the northeast of Black Sea | Crimea |
| little bit of land that egypt has. across the Suez Canal | Sinai Peninsula |
| east of Sea of Okhotsk. easternmost end of Russia | Kamchatka Peninsula |
| peninsula on northeast of Australia | Cape York peninsula |
| massive river going east from Germany into the Black Sea | Danube |
| massive north-south mountain range in Russia, running from Caspian Sea to Arctic Ocean | Ural Mountains |
| mtn range northeast coast of Australia, bordering Cape Town peninsula a bit | Great Dividing Range |
| world's largest & deepest freshwater lake, source for 1/4 of its water | Lake Baikal |
| sea in the southwest part of indonesia. borders this namesake island & kalimantan | Java Sea |
| caves in southwest france with the old paintings. teens vandalized it some times | Lascaux Cave(s) |
| Mojave Desert |
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