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Geography

This section contains 1208 articles.

See also: Earth science.

Basics

This section contains 44 articles.

Physical geography

This section contains 392 articles.

Bodies of water

This section contains 185 articles.

Oceans and seas

This section contains 55 articles.

Straits

This section contains 20 articles.

Lakes

This section contains 38 articles.

Africa

This section contains 10 articles.

  1. African Great Lakes
    1. Lake Victoria
    2. Lake Albert
    3. Lake Malawi
    4. Lake Tanganyika
    5. Lake Turkana
  2. Lake Chad
  3. Lake Kariba
  4. Lake Mweru
  5. Lake Volta
Europe

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Lake Ladoga
  2. Lake Onega
  3. Vänern
North America

This section contains 10 articles.

  1. Great Lakes
    1. Lake Erie
    2. Lake Huron
    3. Lake Michigan
    4. Lake Ontario
    5. Lake Superior
  2. Great Bear Lake
  3. Great Slave Lake
  4. Lake Nicaragua
  5. Lake Winnipeg
South America

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Lake Maracaibo
  2. Lake Titicaca
Asia

This section contains 11 articles.

  1. Caspian Sea (Level 3)
  2. Aral Sea
  3. Lake Baikal
  4. Lake Balkhash
  5. Dead Sea
  6. Issyk-Kul
  7. Poyang Lake
  8. Qinghai Lake
  9. Lake Urmia
  10. Lake Van
  11. West Lake
Antarctica

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Lake Vostok
Oceania

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Lake Eyre

Rivers

This section contains 63 articles.


Canals

This section contains 7 articles.

Shipping routes

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Northeast Passage
  2. Northwest Passage

Other hydrologic features

This section contains 11 articles.

Waterfalls

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Angel Falls
  2. Iguazu Falls
  3. Niagara Falls
  4. Victoria Falls

Seabed

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Great Barrier Reef
  2. Mid-Atlantic Ridge
  3. Mariana Trench

Wetlands

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Everglades

Glaciers

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Antarctic ice sheet
  2. Greenland ice sheet

Aquifers

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Great Artesian Basin

Islands

This section contains 75 articles.

Peninsulas

This section contains 16 articles.

Africa

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Cape of Good Hope
  2. Horn of Africa

North America

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Baja California peninsula
  2. Yucatán Peninsula

South America

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Cape Horn

Asia

This section contains 7 articles.

  1. Anatolia
  2. Arabian Peninsula
  3. Korea
  4. Mainland Southeast Asia
  5. Malay Peninsula
  6. Kamchatka Peninsula
  7. Sinai Peninsula

Europe

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Balkans
  2. Crimea
  3. Iberian Peninsula

Antarctica

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Antarctic Peninsula

Land relief

This section contains 52 articles.

Land relief: General

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Eurasian Steppe
  2. Ring of Fire

North America

This section contains 7 articles.

  1. Rocky Mountains (Level 3)
  2. Appalachian Mountains
  3. Canadian Shield
  4. Grand Canyon
  5. Great Plains
  6. Pacific Coast Ranges
  7. Sierra Nevada

South America

This section contains 7 articles.

  1. Andes (Level 3)
    1. Altiplano
  2. Brazilian Highlands
  3. Cerrado
  4. Gran Chaco
  5. Guiana Shield
  6. Pampas

Antarctica

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Transantarctic Mountains

Asia

This section contains 16 articles.

Southern Asia

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Himalayas (Level 3)
  2. Deccan Plateau
  3. Indo-Gangetic Plain
  4. Karakoram
  5. Western Ghats
Western Asia

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Caucasus Mountains
  2. Iranian plateau
  3. Hindu Kush
  4. Zagros Mountains
Eastern Asia

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. North China Plain
  2. Tibetan Plateau
  3. Kunlun Mountains
  4. Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau
Central and Northern Asia

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Altai Mountains
  2. Tian Shan
  3. West Siberian Plain

Europe

This section contains 8 articles.

  1. Alps
  2. Apennine Mountains
  3. Balkan Mountains
  4. Carpathian Mountains
  5. East European Plain
  6. Pyrenees
  7. Scandinavian Mountains
  8. Ural Mountains

Africa

This section contains 7 articles.

  1. Aïr Mountains
  2. Atlas Mountains
  3. Drakensberg
  4. Ethiopian Highlands
  5. Great Rift Valley
  6. Sahel
  7. Tassili n'Ajjer

Oceania

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Great Dividing Range
  2. Outback
  3. Southern Alps
  4. Uluru

Mountain peaks

This section contains 22 articles.

Africa

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Mount Kenya
  2. Mount Kilimanjaro

Asia

This section contains 7 articles.

  1. K2
  2. Krakatoa
  3. Mount Everest
  4. Mount Fuji
  5. Mount Kailash
  6. Mount Pinatubo
  7. Mount Tai

North America

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Denali
  2. Mount Pelée
  3. Mount St. Helens

South America

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Aconcagua

Oceania

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Mauna Loa
  2. Mount Kosciuszko
  3. Puncak Jaya

Europe

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Mont Blanc
  2. Mount Elbrus
  3. Mount Etna
  4. Mount Olympus
  5. Mount Vesuvius

Antarctica

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Vinson Massif

Deserts

This section contains 10 articles.

Forests

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Amazon rainforest (Level 3)
  2. Congolian rainforests
  3. Sundarbans

Parks and preserves

This section contains 18 articles.

Parks and preserves: General

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Park
  2. National park
  3. World Heritage Site

Africa

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Banc d'Arguin National Park
  2. Kavango–Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area
  3. Ngorongoro Conservation Area
  4. Serengeti National Park

Asia

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Kaziranga National Park

North America

This section contains 6 articles.

  1. Banff National Park
  2. Central Park
  3. Great Smoky Mountains National Park
  4. Northeast Greenland National Park
  5. Yellowstone National Park
  6. Yosemite National Park


South America

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Tumucumaque Mountains National Park

Europe

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Lake District

Oceania

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Phoenix Islands Protected Area
  2. Royal National Park

Countries and other regions

This section contains 320 articles.

Countries

This section contains 207 articles.

Africa

This section contains 54 articles.

Asia

This section contains 47 articles.

East Asia

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. China (Level 3)
  2. Japan (Level 3)
  3. Mongolia
  4. North Korea
  5. South Korea (Level 3)
Southeast Asia

This section contains 11 articles.

  1. Brunei
  2. Cambodia
  3. Timor-Leste
  4. Indonesia (Level 3)
  5. Laos
  6. Malaysia (Level 3)
  7. Myanmar (Level 3)
  8. Philippines (Level 3)
  9. Singapore (Level 3)
  10. Thailand (Level 3)
  11. Vietnam (Level 3)
Central Asia

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Kazakhstan
  2. Kyrgyzstan
  3. Tajikistan
  4. Turkmenistan
  5. Uzbekistan
South Asia

This section contains 8 articles.

  1. Afghanistan
  2. Bangladesh (Level 3)
  3. Bhutan
  4. India (Level 3)
  5. Maldives
  6. Nepal
  7. Pakistan (Level 3)
  8. Sri Lanka
West Asia

This section contains 18 articles.

  1. Armenia
  2. Azerbaijan
  3. Bahrain
  4. Cyprus
  5. Georgia
  6. Iran (Level 3)
  7. Iraq
  8. Israel (Level 3)
  9. Jordan
  10. Kuwait
  11. Lebanon
  12. Oman
  13. Qatar
  14. Saudi Arabia (Level 3)
  15. Syria
  16. Turkey (Level 3)
  17. United Arab Emirates
  18. Yemen

Europe

This section contains 44 articles.

North America

This section contains 23 articles.

Oceania

This section contains 14 articles.

Australia and New Zealand

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Australia (Level 3)
  2. New Zealand
Polynesia

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Samoa
  2. Tonga
  3. Tuvalu
Micronesia

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Kiribati
  2. Marshall Islands
  3. Federated States of Micronesia
  4. Nauru
  5. Palau
Melanesia

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Fiji
  2. Papua New Guinea
  3. Solomon Islands
  4. Vanuatu

South America

This section contains 12 articles.

Unrecognized or largely unrecognized states, and disputed regions

This section contains 12 articles.

Africa

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Puntland
  2. Somaliland
  3. Western Sahara
Asia

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Abkhazia
  2. Northern Cyprus
  3. Palestine
  4. South Ossetia
  5. Taiwan
Europe

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Kosovo
  2. Transnistria
Oceania

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Cook Islands
  2. Niue

State-like entities

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Holy See

Regions and country subdivisions

This section contains 113 articles.

Regions and country subdivisions: General

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Global North and Global South
  2. Oceania (Level 2)
  3. Middle East (Level 3)
  4. Arctic (Level 3)
  5. Tropics

Cultural spheres

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Arab world
  2. Eastern world
  3. Western world

Africa

This section contains 6 articles.

  1. Central Africa
  2. East Africa
  3. North Africa
  4. Southern Africa
  5. Sub-Saharan Africa
  6. West Africa

Americas

This section contains 21 articles.

  1. Caribbean (Level 3)
  2. Central America (Level 3)
  3. French Guiana
  4. Latin America
  5. Patagonia
  6. Southern Cone
Brazil

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Minas Gerais
  2. São Paulo (state)
Canada

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Ontario
  2. Quebec
United States

This section contains 11 articles.

  1. Northeastern United States
    1. New England
    2. New York
    3. Pennsylvania
  2. Midwestern United States
  3. Southern United States
    1. Florida
    2. Texas
  4. Western United States
    1. Alaska
    2. California
    3. Hawaii

Oceania

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Melanesia
  2. Micronesia
  3. Polynesia (Level 3)

Asia

This section contains 46 articles.

  1. Caucasus
    1. Nagorno-Karabakh
  2. Central Asia (Level 3)
  3. East Asia (Level 3)
  4. Khorasan
  5. Kashmir
  6. Penang
  7. Punjab
  8. South Asia
  9. Southeast Asia (Level 3)
China

This section contains 16 articles.

  1. North China
    1. Hebei
    2. Inner Mongolia
  2. East China
    1. Fujian
    2. Jiangsu
    3. Shandong
    4. Zhejiang
  3. South Central China
    1. Guangdong
    2. Hainan
    3. Henan
    4. Hubei
    5. Hunan
  4. Southwest China
    1. Sichuan
    2. Tibet
    3. Yunnan
  5. Northwest China
    1. Xinjiang
  6. Northeast China
    1. Manchuria
India

This section contains 9 articles.

  1. Andhra Pradesh
  2. Bihar
  3. Gujarat
  4. Maharashtra
  5. Northeast India
  6. Rajasthan
  7. Tamil Nadu
  8. Uttar Pradesh
  9. West Bengal
Indonesia

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Aceh
  2. Western New Guinea
Middle East

This section contains 6 articles.

  1. Eastern Arabia
  2. Hejaz
  3. Najd
  4. Kurdistan
  5. Levant
  6. Gaza Strip
Pakistan

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Balochistan
  2. Punjab
  3. Sindh

Europe

This section contains 29 articles.

Europe: General

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Western Europe
Belgium

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Flanders
  2. Wallonia
Eastern Europe

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Eastern Europe
  2. Vojvodina
France

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Brittany
  2. Provence
Germany

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Bavaria
Italy

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Tuscany
Northern Europe

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Scandinavia
Romania

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Moldavia
  2. Transylvania
  3. Wallachia
Russia

This section contains 7 articles.

  1. Bashkortostan
  2. Chechnya
  3. Dagestan
  4. Kaliningrad Oblast
  5. Sakha Republic
  6. Siberia
  7. Tatarstan
Spain

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Andalusia
  2. Basque Country
  3. Catalonia
  4. Galicia
United Kingdom

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. England
  2. Scotland
  3. Wales
  4. Northern Ireland
  5. Gibraltar

Cities

This section contains 452 articles.

Urban studies and planning

This section contains 19 articles.

Africa

This section contains 70 articles.

Northern Africa

This section contains 18 articles.

  1. Algiers
  2. Benghazi
  3. Casablanca
  4. Constantine, Algeria
  5. Fez, Morocco
  6. Khartoum
    1. Omdurman
  7. Marrakesh
  8. Oran
  9. Rabat
  10. Tripoli, Libya
  11. Tunis
Egypt

This section contains 6 articles.

  1. Alexandria
  2. Aswan
  3. Cairo (Level 3)
    1. Giza
  4. Damietta
  5. Luxor

Central Africa

This section contains 6 articles.

  1. Bangui
  2. Brazzaville
  3. Kinshasa
  4. Luanda
  5. Lubumbashi
  6. Mbuji-Mayi

Eastern Africa

This section contains 15 articles.

  1. Addis Ababa
  2. Antananarivo
  3. Asmara
  4. Dar es Salaam
  5. Dire Dawa
  6. Gondar
  7. Harare
  8. Kampala
  9. Kigali
  10. Lilongwe
  11. Lusaka
  12. Maputo
  13. Mogadishu
  14. Mombasa
  15. Nairobi

Southern Africa

This section contains 7 articles.

  1. Gaborone
  2. Windhoek
South Africa

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Cape Town
  2. Durban
  3. Gqeberha
  4. Johannesburg
  5. Pretoria

Western Africa

This section contains 24 articles.

  1. Abidjan
  2. Accra
  3. Bamako
  4. Conakry
  5. Cotonou
  6. Dakar
  7. Douala
  8. Freetown
  9. Kumasi
  10. Monrovia
  11. N'Djamena
  12. Niamey
  13. Nouakchott
  14. Ouagadougou
  15. Yaoundé
Nigeria

This section contains 9 articles.

  1. Abuja
  2. Benin City
  3. Enugu (city)
  4. Ibadan
  5. Kaduna
  6. Kano (city)
  7. Lagos (Level 3)
  8. Maiduguri
  9. Port Harcourt

Americas

This section contains 86 articles.

Asia

This section contains 178 articles.

Central Asia

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Almaty
  2. Astana
  3. Samarkand
  4. Tashkent

Eastern Asia

This section contains 55 articles.

  1. Busan
  2. Daegu
  3. Daejeon
  4. Kaohsiung
  5. Pyongyang
  6. Seoul
  7. Taichung
  8. Taipei
  9. Ulaanbaatar
China

This section contains 36 articles.

  1. Beijing (Level 3)
  2. Changchun
  3. Changsha
  4. Chengdu
  5. Chongqing
  6. Dalian
  7. Fuzhou
  8. Guangzhou
  9. Hangzhou
  10. Harbin
  11. Hefei
  12. Hong Kong (Level 3)
  13. Jinan
  14. Kunming
  15. Lanzhou
  16. Lhasa
  17. Luoyang
  18. Macau
  19. Nanchang
  20. Nanjing
  21. Nanning
  22. Ningbo
  23. Qingdao
  24. Quanzhou
  25. Shanghai
  26. Shenyang
  27. Shenzhen
  28. Shijiazhuang
  29. Suzhou
  30. Taiyuan
  31. Tianjin
  32. Ürümqi
  33. Wuhan
  34. Xi'an
  35. Xiamen
  36. Zhengzhou
Japan

This section contains 10 articles.

  1. Fukuoka
  2. Hiroshima
  3. Kobe
  4. Kyoto
  5. Nagoya
  6. Osaka
  7. Sapporo
  8. Sendai
  9. Tokyo (Level 3)
    1. Yokohama

Southern Asia

This section contains 51 articles.

  1. Chittagong
  2. Colombo
  3. Dhaka
  4. Herat
  5. Kabul
  6. Kandahar
  7. Kathmandu
  8. Sylhet
India

This section contains 34 articles.

  1. Agra
  2. Amritsar
  3. Ahmedabad
  4. Bengaluru
  5. Bhopal
  6. Bhubaneswar
  7. Chandigarh
  8. Chennai
  9. Coimbatore
  10. Delhi (Level 3)
  11. Guwahati
  12. Hyderabad
  13. Indore
  14. Jaipur
  15. Jodhpur
  16. Kanpur
  17. Kolkata
  18. Lucknow
  19. Ludhiana
  20. Madurai
  21. Mumbai (Level 3)
  22. Mysore
  23. Nagpur
  24. Patna
  25. Pune
  26. Prayagraj
  27. Raipur
  28. Ranchi
  29. Srinagar
  30. Surat
  31. Thiruvananthapuram
  32. Vadodara
  33. Varanasi
  34. Visakhapatnam
Pakistan

This section contains 9 articles.

  1. Faisalabad
  2. Gujranwala
  3. Hyderabad, Pakistan
  4. Karachi
  5. Lahore
  6. Multan
  7. Peshawar
  8. Rawalpindi
    1. Islamabad

Southeast Asia

This section contains 28 articles.

  1. Bangkok (Level 3)
  2. Cebu City
  3. Chiang Mai
  4. Davao City
  5. Johor Bahru
  6. Kuala Lumpur
  7. Mandalay
  8. Manila
    1. Quezon City
  9. Phnom Penh
  10. Vientiane
  11. Yangon
Indonesia

This section contains 10 articles.

  1. Bandung
  2. Jakarta (Level 3)
  3. Makassar
  4. Malang
  5. Medan
  6. Padang
  7. Palembang
  8. Semarang
  9. Surabaya
  10. Yogyakarta
Vietnam

This section contains 6 articles.

  1. Cần Thơ
  2. Da Nang
  3. Haiphong
  4. Hanoi
  5. Ho Chi Minh City
  6. Huế

Western Asia

This section contains 40 articles.

  1. Abu Dhabi
  2. Aden
  3. Aleppo
  4. Amman
  5. Baghdad
  6. Baku
  7. Basra
  8. Beirut
  9. Damascus
  10. Doha
  11. Dubai
  12. Erbil
  13. Jeddah
  14. Jerusalem (Level 3)
  15. Kuwait City
  16. Mecca (Level 3)
  17. Medina
  18. Mosul
  19. Muscat
  20. Riyadh
  21. Sanaa
  22. Tbilisi
  23. Tel Aviv
  24. Tyre, Lebanon
  25. Yerevan
Iran

This section contains 8 articles.

  1. Ahvaz
  2. Isfahan
  3. Kermanshah
  4. Mashhad
  5. Qom
  6. Shiraz
  7. Tabriz
  8. Tehran
Turkey

This section contains 7 articles.

  1. Adana
  2. Ankara
  3. Antalya
  4. Bursa
  5. Gaziantep
  6. Istanbul (Level 3)
  7. İzmir

Europe and Russia

This section contains 93 articles.

Central and Eastern Europe

This section contains 34 articles.

  1. Belgrade
  2. Bratislava
  3. Bucharest
  4. Budapest
  5. Minsk
  6. Prague
  7. Sarajevo
  8. Sofia
  9. Zagreb
Poland

This section contains 6 articles.

  1. Gdańsk
  2. Kraków
  3. Łódź
  4. Poznań
  5. Warsaw
  6. Wrocław
Russia

This section contains 13 articles.

  1. Chelyabinsk
  2. Kazan
  3. Moscow (Level 3)
  4. Nizhny Novgorod
  5. Novosibirsk
  6. Omsk
  7. Rostov-on-Don
  8. Saint Petersburg
  9. Samara
  10. Ufa
  11. Vladivostok
  12. Volgograd
  13. Yekaterinburg
Ukraine

This section contains 6 articles.

  1. Dnipro
  2. Donetsk
  3. Kharkiv
  4. Kyiv
  5. Lviv
  6. Odesa

Northern Europe

This section contains 7 articles.

  1. Copenhagen
  2. Helsinki
  3. Oslo
  4. Riga
  5. Stockholm
  6. Tallinn
  7. Vilnius

Western Europe

This section contains 35 articles.

  1. Amsterdam
  2. Antwerp
  3. Brussels
  4. Dublin
  5. Geneva
  6. The Hague
  7. Rotterdam
  8. Vienna
  9. Zurich
France

This section contains 8 articles.

  1. Bordeaux
  2. Lyon
  3. Marseille
  4. Nantes
  5. Nice
  6. Paris (Level 3)
  7. Strasbourg
  8. Toulouse
Germany

This section contains 9 articles.

  1. Berlin
  2. Cologne
    1. Düsseldorf
  3. Dresden
  4. Frankfurt
  5. Hamburg
  6. Munich
  7. Nuremberg
  8. Stuttgart
United Kingdom

This section contains 9 articles.

  1. Belfast
  2. Birmingham
  3. Cardiff
  4. Edinburgh
  5. Glasgow
  6. Leeds
  7. Liverpool
  8. London (Level 3)
  9. Manchester

Southern Europe

This section contains 17 articles.

  1. Athens
  2. Lisbon
  3. Porto
Italy

This section contains 9 articles.

  1. Florence
  2. Genoa
  3. Milan
  4. Naples
  5. Palermo
  6. Rome (Level 3)
  7. Syracuse, Sicily
  8. Turin
  9. Venice
Spain

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Barcelona
  2. Madrid
  3. Seville
  4. Valencia
  5. Zaragoza

Oceania

This section contains 6 articles.

  1. Auckland

Australia

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Adelaide
  2. Brisbane
  3. Melbourne
  4. Perth
  5. Sydney