<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (April 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> A landform is a natural feature of the solid surface of the Earth or other planetary body . Landforms together make up a given terrain, and their arrangement in the landscape is known as topography . Typical landforms include hills, mountains, plateaus, canyons, and valleys, as well as shoreline features such as bays, peninsulas, and seas, including submerged features such as mid-ocean ridges, volcanoes, and the great ocean basins . </P> <P> Landforms are categorized by characteristic physical attributes such as elevation, slope, orientation, stratification, rock exposure, and soil type . Gross physical features or landforms include intuitive elements such as berms, mounds, hills, ridges, cliffs, valleys, rivers, peninsulas, volcanoes, and numerous other structural and size - scaled (i.e. ponds vs. lakes, hills vs. mountains) elements including various kinds of inland and oceanic waterbodies and sub-surface features . </P> <P> Oceans and continents exemplify the highest - order landforms . Landform elements are parts of a high - order landforms that can be further identified and systematically given a cohesive definition such as hill - tops, shoulders, saddles, foreslopes and backslopes . </P>

Type of the landform on which the state lies