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United Kingdom

Scotland accounts for just under a third (32 per cent) of the total area of the UK, covering 78,772 square kilometres (30,410 sq mi). This includes nearly eight hundred islands, predominantly west and north of the mainland; notably the Hebrides, Orkney Islands and Shetland Islands. Scotland is the most mountainous country in the UK and its topography is distinguished by the Highland Boundary Fault – a geological rock fracture – which traverses Scotland from Arran in the west to Stonehaven in the east. The fault separates two distinctively different regions; namely the Highlands to the north and west and the Lowlands to the south and east. The more rugged Highland region contains the majority of Scotland's mountainous land, including Ben Nevis which at 1,345 metres (4,413 ft) is the highest point in the British Isles. Lowland areas – especially the narrow waist of land between the Firth of Clyde and the Firth of Forth known as the Central Belt – are flatter and home to most of the population including Glasgow, Scotland's largest city, and Edinburgh, its capital and political centre, although upland and mountainous terrain lies within the Southern Uplands.

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Name: United Kingdom topographic map, elevation, terrain.

Location: United Kingdom (47.20235 -10.77658 62.20235 4.22342)

Average elevation: 259 ft

Minimum elevation: -20 ft

Maximum elevation: 7,238 ft

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Wales

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Average elevation: 328 ft

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Average elevation: 171 ft

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United Kingdom > England > Oxfordshire

Average elevation: 266 ft

Nottingham

United Kingdom > England > Nottinghamshire

Average elevation: 184 ft

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United Kingdom > England

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Average elevation: 676 ft

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Average elevation: 184 ft

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United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 315 ft

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Average elevation: 217 ft

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Average elevation: 69 ft

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United Kingdom > England

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Kent

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Suffolk

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North East England

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United Kingdom > England

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United Kingdom > England > Dorset

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Average elevation: 135 ft

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Average elevation: 177 ft

Primrose Hill

United Kingdom > England > London

Average elevation: 151 ft

Devon

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 308 ft

Hampshire

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 240 ft

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United Kingdom

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Average elevation: 180 ft

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United Kingdom

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Average elevation: 325 ft

Scotland

United Kingdom

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Average elevation: 118 ft

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United Kingdom > England > Cumberland

Average elevation: 102 ft

Brandon

United Kingdom > England > Suffolk

Average elevation: 89 ft

Six Mile Bottom

United Kingdom > England > Cambridgeshire

Average elevation: 128 ft

Portland

United Kingdom > England > Dorset > Castletown

Average elevation: 26 ft

Calton Hill

United Kingdom > Scotland > City of Edinburgh

Average elevation: 177 ft

Syston

United Kingdom > England > Leicestershire > Charnwood > Syston

Average elevation: 187 ft

Ludborough

United Kingdom > England > Lincolnshire > East Lindsey

Average elevation: 102 ft

Winford

United Kingdom > England > North Somerset

Average elevation: 413 ft

Buckingham Palace

United Kingdom > England > London

Average elevation: 62 ft

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