The Yunnan Guizhou Plateau or Yungui Plateau () is a plateau located in the provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou in southwest China.

The Mascarene Plateau is 2000 km long undersea plateau that lies east of Madagascar.

The basalts were originally part of a great volcanic plateau called the Thulean Plateau which formed during the Paleogene.

On the west rises the Iranian Plateau.

The Swiss Plateau or Central Plateau ( ) constitutes one of the three major landscapes in Switzerland alongside the Jura Mountains and the Swiss Alps.

Good governance on the plateau is good for everyone.

A plateau like middle altitude outlier of the massif in its south sector is Mamzdyshkha, with part of the plateau slightly emerging above the tree line.

The Luangwa Valley splits the plateau in a curve north east to south west, extended west into the heart of the plateau by the deep valley of the Lunsemfwa River.

Indeed, all of Asia s major rivers, except the Ganges, originate in the Tibetan plateau.

See also Loess Plateau Lugu Lake Dian Lake Footnotes External links Expansion of the Chinese Paddy Rice to the Yannan Guizhou Plateau An Assessment of the Economic Losses Resulting from Various Forms of Environmental Degradation in China

Five kilometers to the West of the Um Katef Plateau perimeter was the Ruafa Dam.

The Antarctic Plateau (sometimes referred to as the Polar Plateau) is a large area of central Antarctica which extends over a diameter of about , and which includes the region of the South Pole and the Amundsen Scott Station.

Switzerland lies between latitudes 45 and 48 N, and longitudes 5 and 11 E. It contains three basic topographical areas the Swiss Alps to the south, the Swiss Plateau or Central Plateau, and the Jura mountains on the west.

Sterling County is a county located on the Edwards Plateau in the U.S. state of Texas.

On the west side is a plateau, while the north and south coasts feature ice shelves.

Research indicates that only two or three large fires occur on the Yellowstone Plateau every 1,000 years.

Every year or so, I have the privilege of taking clinicians into the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau.

The Benham Plateau to the east in the Philippine Sea is an undersea region active in tectonic subduction.

The city has been built on a long plateau lying on the east flanks of the Pichincha volcano.

Most of the governorate is part of the Hawran plateau, which covers northern Jordan, and south west Syria.

The northern part of the island is a high coralline limestone plateau and the southern region is mountainous.

Just 60 to 100 of these cheetahs remain in the world, and their only home is Iran s desert plateau.

Set in the high Andean plateau for a uninterrupted period of three months, didn't have any script or planning.

By this time, the kingdom of Mutapa had lost nearly all of the Zimbabwe plateau to the Rozwi Empire.

These three international rivers originate on the Tibetan plateau, whose bounteous water resources have become a magnet for Chinese planners.

Second, there are biological and cultural differences between the inhabitants of the Cantabrian zone and those of the central Plateau.

All start on the great Tibetan Plateau and flow in parallel through the northwest corner of the province into Southeast Asia.

The plateau is very densely populated with about 450 people per km2 and the landscape continually shows signs of man's presence.

In one of various usages, the term Columbia Basin refers to more or less the same area as the Columbia Plateau.

Most quarters of the city are located on the High Plateau and the surrounding hills, which have an average elevation of .

It is a sprawling area of about 12 square kilometres on a rocky plateau that lies in the southern part of Cairo.

Known as Depsang, the plateau lies astride an ancient silk route connecting Yarkand in Xinjiang to India s Ladakh region through the Karakoram Pass.

The territory of Moldova east of the river Dniester is split between parts of the Podolian Plateau, and parts of the Eurasian Steppe.

The Alhambra occupies a small plateau on the southeastern border of the city in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada above the Assabica valley.

Jerusalem ( ), located on a plateau in the Judean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea, is one of the oldest cities in the world.

This urban sprawl does not only affect the plateau but also the Jura and the Alpine foothills and there are growing concerns about land use.

The plain is bordered on the north by the Yanshan Mountains and on the west by the Taihang Mountains edge of the Shanxi ('western mountains') plateau.

In fact, the government inexplicably replaced regular army troops with border police in 2010 to patrol the mountain ringed plateau into which the PLA has now intruded.

Together with Dr. Paul Farmer, the legendary AIDS doctor in Haiti, I visited villages in Haiti's Central Plateau, asking people about their views of politics and Aristide.

Patagonia, a large southern plateau consisting mostly of arid, rocky steppes to the east, moister cold grasslands to the south and dense subantarctic forests to the west.

The main activity in the Swiss plateau bypassed the area to the north, however, and was instead centered around the valley of the Broye River and Aventicum.

Between 17 million and 6 million years ago, huge outpourings of flood basalt lava covered the Columbia River Plateau and forced the lower Columbia into its present course.

Deeper into the sea, there are two deep basins separated by a low ridge (its deepest point at 3,000 m) between the Vøring Plateau and Jan Mayen island.

An oceanographic study revealed substantial change in the physical characteristics of deep waters in the Southern Ocean east of the Kerguelen Plateau, when compared with a decade ago.

In 1899, the Portuguese government initiated the construction of the railway to give access to the central Angolan plateau and the mineral wealth of the then Congo Free State.