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Geog 120: World Geography American University of Phnom Penh Map Quizzes: List of physical features 1. Africa Atlas Drakensberg Seas and Oceans Deserts Mediterranean Atlantic Kalahari Strait of Gibraltar Namib Suez Canal Sahara Mozambique Channel Ogaden Red Sea Libyan Gulf of Suez 2. Asia Lakes Lake Chad Seas and Oceans Lake Malawi (Nyasa) Lake Tanganyika Andaman Sea Lake Victoria Arabian Sea Lake Albert Aral Sea Lake Rudolph Arctic Ocean Atlantic Ocean Rivers Black Sea Caspian Sea Congo East China Sea Limpopo Indian Ocean Niger Inland Sea (also know as Setonaikai, Zambezi Japan) Nile Mediterranean Sea Orange Pacific Ocean Vaal Red Sea Sea of Japan Mountains Sea of Okhotsk 2 South China Sea Mountain Ranges Yellow Sea Caucuses Elburz Straits, Channels, Bays and Gulfs Himalayas Hindu Kush Bay of Bengal Ural Bosporus Zagros Dardanelles Gulf of Aden Gulf of Suez Deserts Gulf of Thailand Arabian Gulf of Tonkin Dasht-E-Kavir Persian Gulf Gobi Strait of Taiwan Negev Strait of Malacca Takla Makan Strait of Hormuz Strait of Sunda Suez Canal 3. The Americas Lakes Seas and Oceans Baykal Bering Tonle Sap Caribbean Sea Atlantic Ocean Pacific Ocean Rivers Straits, Channels, Bays and Gulfs Amur Brahmaputra Gulf of Mexico Chang Jiang Hudson Bay Euphrates Panama Canal Ganges Strait of Magellan Huang He (Yellow) Indus Lakes Irrawaddy Mekong Great Salt Tigris Great Lakes (Lakes Tonle Sap (River and Lake) Superior, Michigan, Huron, 3 Erie, and Ontario) 4. Australia and the Pacific Manitoba Titicaca Winnipeg Seas and Oceans Coral Sea Rivers Tasman Sea Pacific Ocean Amazon Indian Ocean Colorado Columbia Hudson Straits, Channels, Bays and Gulfs Mississippi Bass Strait Missouri Cook Strait Ohio Gulf of Carpentaria Orinoco Torres Strait Paraguay Plata Parana Rivers Rio Grande Darling St. Lawrence Murray Mountain Ranges Mountain Ranges Andes Great Dividing Range Rocky MacDonnell Sierra Madre Occidental Southern Alps (NZ) Sierra Madre Oriental Sierra Nevada (N. America) Deserts Deserts Great Victoria Great Sandy Atacama Simpson Mojave 5. Europe and Russia Seas and Oceans 4 Adriatic Sea Rhone Arctic Ocean Seine Atlantic Ocean Thames Baltic Sea Volga Bering Sea Black Sea Mountain Ranges Caspian Sea English Channel Alps Irish Sea Apennines Mediterranean Sea Balkan North Sea Carpathian Caucuses Dinaric Alps Straits, Channels, Bays and Gulfs Pyrenees Bay of Biscay Sierra Nevada (Europe) Bosporus Ural Dardanelles Strait of Dover Islands English Channel Kattegat Crete Skagerrak Sicily Strait of Gibraltar Sardinia Sea of Okhotsk Corsica Balearic Islands (Illes Balears) Shetland Islands Lakes Faroe Islands Baykal 4. Rivers Amur Danube Dnepr Don (Russia) Ebro Elbe Loire Rhine .

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