Compared with the area north of the Red River, the vast massif extending southwest across Laos to the Mekong River is of considerably higher elevation.
From northwest to southeast the Al-Ḥajar ("The Stone") range includes the Ruʾūs al-Jibāl overlooking the Strait of Hormuz, the Al-Ḥajar al-Gharbī (Western Hajar), the vast massif of Jabal Al-Akhḍar (Green Mountain), the Jabal Nakhl, the Al-Ḥajar al-Sharqī (Eastern Hajar), and the Jabal Banī Jābir.
Farther south, Andringitra is a vast granite massif north of Tôlan̈aro (Faradofay); it rises to 8,720 feet (2,658 metres) at Boby Peak.
The vast plateau of the Massif Central covers about 33,000 square miles (86,000 square km), or some one-sixth of the area of the country.
Faulting was associated with volcanic activity, which in the central part of the region formed the vast and complex structures of the massifs of Cantal and Monts Dore, where the Sancy Hill (Puy de Sancy), at 6,184 feet (1,885 metres), is the highest summit of the Massif Central.
This southern French variety was considered to be no better than a bit-part player in the vast production of rustic vins de table below the Massif Central.
After passing through Palisades Dam, the Snake River empties onto the Snake River Plain, a vast physiographic province extending through southern Idaho across the massif of the Rocky Mountains and underlain by the Snake River Aquifer, one of the most productive aquifers in the United States.
The vast central plains rise gradually in the northeast to the Bongos (Bongo) Massif, extending to an elevation of 4,360 feet (1,330 metres) at Mount Toussoro, and to the Tondou Massif in the east.
The active volcano Mount Bromo sits amongst Java's Tengger massif - rising to 2,329 metres - and is surrounded by the vast desert-like landscape known as the Sea of Sand.
Mont Blanc massif in the Alps, France.
The massif slopes gently to the northwest.
