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Physiographic Regions
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Amazonia
The basin, the forest, and the flying rivers they make
Patagonia
Wind, ice, and the emptiest end of the Americas
Siberia
A tenth of the world's land, and the ground beneath it is thawing
The Arabian Peninsula
The largest peninsula on Earth, and it has no rivers
The Arctic
The circumpolar north, warming four times faster than the world
The Australian Outback
Seventy percent of a continent, and almost nobody in it
The Congo Basin
The second great rainforest, and the peat beneath it
The Eurasian Steppe
The grass corridor that carried empires from Hungary to Manchuria
The Great Plains
The grass built the soil, and the plow found out
The Great Rift Valley
A continent tearing in two, and the trench it leaves behind
The Iberian Peninsula
A high, dry tableland walled off by the Pyrenees
The Indo-Gangetic Plain
The debris of the Himalayas, and a billion people living on it
The Mediterranean Basin
A rare climate, an inland sea, and five thousand years of use
The Nile Valley
A green ribbon through the desert, holding a hundred million people
The Pampas
Soil deep enough to feed continents, flat enough to bore a surveyor
The Ring of Fire
The Pacific rim of subduction, where the ground does not hold still
The Sahel
The semi-arid belt where the Sahara frays into savanna
The Yucatan Peninsula
A limestone shelf, a buried crater, and water only underground