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Fill in the blanks with appropriate words to complete each sentence:
The Ural mountains in _______ have rounded features and low elevation.

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Russia
The Ural Mountains, also called the Urals, Russian Uralskie Gory or Ural, mountain range form a rugged spine in west-central Russia and the major part of the traditional physiographic boundary between Europe and Asia. Extending some 1,550 miles (2,500 km) from the bend of the Ural River in the south to the low, severely eroded Pay-Khoy Ridge, which forms a 250-mile (400-km) fingerlike extension to the northern tip of the Urals. The mountains constitute the major portion of the Uralian orogenic belt, which stretches 2,175 miles (3,500 km) from the Aral Sea to the northernmost tip of Novaya Zemlya.

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