gated river valleys along course of Amu Darya,
Syr Darya (Sirdaryo), and Zarafshon; Fergana Valley in east
surrounded by mountainous Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan; shrinking Aral
Sea in west

Vanuatu
mostly mountainous islands of volcanic origin; narrow
coastal plains

Venezuela
Andes Mountains and Maracaibo Lowlands in northwest;
central plains (llanos); Guiana Highlands in southeast

Vietnam
low, flat delta in south and north; central highlands;
hilly, mountainous in far north and northwest

Virgin Islands
mostly hilly to rugged and mountainous with little
level land

Wake Island
atoll of three coral islands built up on an underwater
volcano; central lagoon is former crater, islands are part of the rim

Wallis and Futuna
volcanic origin; low hills

West Bank
mostly rugged dissected upland, some vegetation in west,
but barren in east

Western Sahara
mostly low, flat desert with large areas of rocky or
sandy surfaces rising to small mountains in south and northeast

World
the greatest ocean depth is the Mariana Trench at 10,924 m in
the Pacific Ocean

Yemen
narrow coastal plain backed by flat-topped hills and rugged
mountains; dissected upland desert plains in center slope into the
desert interior of the Arabian Peninsula

Zambia
mostly high plateau with some hills and mountains

Zimbabwe
mostly high plateau with higher central plateau (high
veld); mountains in east

This page was last updated on 10 February, 2005

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@2127 Total fertility rate (children born/woman)

Afghanistan
6.78 children born/woman (2004 est.)

Albania
2.05 children born/woman (2004 est.)

Algeria
2.04 children born/woman (2004 est.)

American Samoa
3.41 children born/woman (2004 est.)

Andorra
1.28 children born/woman (2004 est.)

Angola
6.33 children born/woman (2004 est.)

Anguilla
1.74 children born/woman (2004 est.)

Antigua and Barbuda
2.27 children born/woman (2004 est.)

Argentina
2.24 children born/woman (2004 est.)

Armenia
1.31 children born/woman (2004 est.)

Aruba
1.79 children born/woman (2004 est.)

Australia
1.76 children born/woman (2004 est.)

Austria
1.35 children born/woman (2004 est.)

Azerbaijan
2.39 children born/woman (2004 est.)

Bahamas, The
2.23 children born/woman (2004 est.)

Bahrain
2.67 childr