French Landscapes Vocabulary

les paysages

On this page you’ll find a list of landscape vocabulary words in French. The list consists of almost all kinds of landscapes including mountains, plains, dessert, etc. Most of these words are unique to the French language and not to similar with English. However, some words are the same such as “le plateau” for plateau and “la gorge” for gorge.

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le paysage landscape	la plaine plane	le désert desert
le bois woods	la forêt forest/woods	la forêt tropicale rainforest
le pré meadow	le marais swamp	la prairie grassland
le ruiseau stream	le lac lake	la cascade waterfall
le geyser geyser	la falaise cliff	la côte coast
le récif de corail coral reef	l’esturaire estuary	la montagne mountain
la rivière river	la colline hill	la gorge gorge
le plateau plateau	la caverne cave	la vallée valley

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