Physical Map of the World, April 2005 Independent state
AUSTRALIA Bermuda
Dependency or area of special sovereignty Island / island group
150
Capital
90
120
60
30
ARCTIC OCEAN
Scale 1:35,000,000 Robinson Projection standard parallels 38˚N and 38˚S
Banks Island
Barents Sea Norwegian Sea
Jan Mayen (NORWAY)
Chukchi Sea
Fortaleza
A
LE
H
Santiago
Cerro Aconcagua (highest point in South America, 6962 m)
URUGUAY
Buenos Aires Montevideo
ANDE
ARCHIPIÉLAGO JUAN FERNÁNDEZ (CHILE)
Córdoba
ARGENTINA
TAINS UN
Port Louis MAURITIUS
Reunion (FRANCE)
Europa Island (FRANCE)
Pretoria
ID
CHILE
Maputo
O
AFRICA
N
E
Java Sea
H
S
I
A
T
R
E
Christmas Island
NC
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
(AUSTL.)
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
H (deepest point of the Indian Ocean, -7258 m)
Ashmore and Cartier Islands
(AUSTL.)
SOLOMON ISLANDS
Dili
Arafura Sea
EAST TIMOR
Gulf of Carpentaria
G
Mbabane SWAZILAND
Coral Sea Islands
Port-Vila
Niue (N.Z.)
Suva Nuku'alofa
TONGA
Noumea
Tropic of Capricorn (23˚27')
A U S T R A L I A
E
Lake Eyre (lowest point in Australia, -15 m)
SOUTH PACIFIC
Norfolk Island
Brisbane
(AUSTL.)
Durban Perth
Lord Howe Island
(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)
Île Saint-Paul
Sydney
Mount Kosciuszko (highest point in Australia, 2229m)
Great Australian Bight
Île Amsterdam
(U.S.)
NEW ZEALAND
Tasman Sea
Gough Island (St. Helena)
30
Auckland
Melbourne
(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)
KERMADEC ISLANDS (N.Z.)
OCEAN
(AUSTL.)
Tasmania
Wellington
French Southern and Antarctic Lands
Christchurch
(FRANCE)
E
CHATHAM ISLANDS (N.Z.) PRINCE EDWARD ISLANDS (SOUTH AFRICA)
ÎLES CROZET (Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)
SNARES ISLANDS (N.Z.) AUCKLAND ISLANDS (N.Z.)
ÎLES KERGUELEN (Fr. S. and Ant. Lands) Heard Island and McDonald Islands (AUSTL.)
Bouvet Island (NORWAY)
Drake Passage
American Samoa
FIJI
VANUATU
New Caledonia (FRANCE)
GREAT VICTORIA DESERT
Stanley
60
SAMOA Apia Mata-Utu (FRANCE) Pago Pago
(AUSTL.)
Canberra
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) (administered by U.K., claimed by ARGENTINA)
Scotia Sea
Tokelau (N.Z.)
Wallis and Futuna
Coral Sea Re ef
Cape Town
D G R I
S Laguna del Carbón (lowest point in South America and the Western Hemisphere, -105 m)
Funafuti
TUVALU
Honiara
Port Moresby
Timor Sea
(AUSTL.)
K I R I B A T I
Bismarck Sea
Banda Sea
Surabaya
Bandung
Howland Island (U.S.) Baker Island (U.S.) 0
Alice Springs
TRISTAN DA CUNHA (St. Helena)
PATAGONIA
D
LESOTHO SOUTH Maseru
(U.K.)
Punta Arenas
Antarctic Circle (66˚33')
N Jakarta
R
30
MADAGASCAR
SaintDenis
Gaborone Johannesburg
OCEAN N
Pôrto Alegre
St. Helena
INDIAN
EA
São Paulo
Asunción
(FRANCE)
(FRANCE)
Antananarivo
Mozambique Channel Bassas da India
KALAHARI DESERT
Walvis Bay
Tromelin Island
OC
Rio de Janeiro
(administered by FRANCE, claimed by COMOROS)
MOZAMBIQUE
BOTSWANA
T
Isla San Ambrosio (CHILE)
Windhoek DESER
Easter Island (CHILE)
PARAGUAY
NAMIBIA
(FRANCE)
Juan de Nova Island (FR.)
ZIMBABWE IB
Isla San Felíx (CHILE)
Isla Sala y Gómez (CHILE)
(BRAZIL)
OCEAN
M I D - A T L A N T I C
Pitcairn Islands (U.K.)
(BRAZIL)
MALAWI
Harare
M
Adamstown
Martin Vaz Trindade
DESERT
ÎLES TUBUAI (Fr. Poly.)
O LAN
AMA ATA C
(23˚27')
IP ALT
Tropic of Capricorn
Belo Horizonte
Glorioso Islands
Mayotte
Lusaka
ATLANTIC
BOLIVIA
(FRANCE)
(St. Helena)
NA
SOUTH PACIFIC a OCEAN
Moroni
Lilongwe
Namibe
St. Helena
Diego Garcia
COMOROS
ZAMBIA
SOUTH
Brasília
Tarawa
Equator
Barrier
Lago Titicaca La Paz
S
C
P o l y n e s i
E
N
F r e n c h
Salvador
Celebes Sea
A
t Grea
E
(Fr. Poly.)
Papeete
Lake Nyasa
Lubumbashi
ANGOLA D
R
SOCIETY ISLANDS
ARCHIPEL DES TUAMOTU (Fr. Poly.)
TANZANIA
(U.K.)
Dar es Salaam
SEYCHELLES
N
T
Cook Islands
Dodoma
I
British Indian Ocean Territory
MID - INDIAN
HI
Lima (N.Z.)
BRAZIL
Victoria
Luanda
(St. Helena)
PALAU
Yaren NAURU District
Mt. Kilimanjaro (highest point in Africa, 5895 m)
A
-C
Ascension
PERU
I
Majuro
Palikir
V
RU
ÎLES MARQUISES (Fr. Poly.)
BRUNEI
S
Koror
Nairobi
BURUNDI
Lake Tanganyika
(Cabinda)
Kuala Lumpur M A L A Y Singapore SINGAPORE
JA
PE
K I R I B A T I
OF THE CONGO
Kinshasa
ANGOLA
Mogadishu
Lake Victoria Bujumbura
Brazzaville
Medan
KENYA
RWANDA Kigali
REPUBLIC
(BRAZIL)
Male
MARSHALL ISLANDS
FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA
EN CH
Manaus
SRI LANKA
Bandar Seri Begawan
MALDIVES
DEMOCRATIC
(EQUA. GUI.)
SPRATLY ISLANDS
NICOBAR ISLANDS (INDIA)
(U.S.) Challenger Deep (world's greatest ocean depth, -10924 m)
TR
Annobon
ARQUIPÉLAGO DE FERNANDO DE NORONHA
Belém
Ho Chi Minh City
TO NG A
(ECUADOR)
ECUADOR Guayaquil
Libreville REP. OF THE GABON CONGO
São Tome
SOMALIA
Colombo
Guam
H
GALAPAGOS ISLANDS
(U.S.)
UGANDA Kampala
Phnom Penh Gulf of Thailand
Hagåtña
PHILIPPINES
C
Jarvis Island
Bangui
Yaoundé
SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE
Laccadive Sea
South China Sea
CAMBODIA
Andaman Sea
(INDIA)
EY LL
ETHIOPIA
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
Gulf of Guinea
Equator
(YEMEN)
ANDAMAN ISLANDS (INDIA)
Chennai (Madras)
Saipan
N
(BRAZIL)
Quito
CAMEROON
Socotra
Djibouti
Bangalore
LAKSHADWEEP
Addis Ababa
Abuja
Arabian Sea
Bangkok
(U.S.)
E
Equator
PENEDOS DE SÃO PEDRO E SÃO PAULO
NIGERIA
Malabo
EQUATORIAL GUINEA
COLOMBIA
N'Djamena
DJIBOUTI Gulf of Aden
(U.S.)
Manila
VIETNAM
Wake Island
R
D N A
Cali
Bogotá
Lac 'Assal (lowest point in Africa, -155 m)
PARACEL ISLANDS
THAILAND
Bengal
Sea
CH
Isla de Malpelo
Georgetown Paramaribo GUYANA French Guiana (FRANCE) SURINAME Cayenne
SUDAN
Sanaa
Rangoon
Northern Mariana Islands
T
VENEZUELA
Asmara
Philippine
Hainan Dao
C
S Medellín
Isla del Coco (COSTA RICA)
Palmyra Atoll (U.S.)
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
Caracas
COSTA RICA Panama PANAMA
Kingman Reef (U.S.)
Port-of-Spain
Maracaibo
CHAD
SENEGAL
Niamey Banjul BURKINA Bamako FASO THE GAMBIA Ouagadougou Bissau GUINEA GUINEA-BISSAU BENIN Conakry CÔTE TOGO Freetown D'IVOIRE GHANA SIERRA Yamoussoukro LEONE Lagos Lomé Accra Monrovia PortoAbidjan LIBERIA Novo
Praia
ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES BARBADOS Neth. Antilles (NETH.) GRENADA
Khartoum
Bay of
YEMEN
ERITREA
Gulf of
Vientiane Tonkin
EN NE TR I P PI PHIL
(FRANCE)
Dakar
Martinique (FR.) ST. LUCIA
NIGER
Tombouctou
S.A.R.
LAOS
- Hyderabad
Tropic of Cancer (23˚27')
Hong Kong Luzon Strait Macau S.A.R.
Hanoi
INDIA Mumbai (Bombay)
Y
(JAPAN)
Taiwan
BURMA
OMAN
MALI
CAPE VERDE
DOMINICA
(U.K.)
B RU
MAURITANIA
Kolkata Dhaka (Calcutta)
- Ahmadabad
(U.S.)
Marcus Island
E
Aruba (NETH.)
ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA Guadeloupe (FR.)
(U.S.) Montserrat
LI
HA
K ' AL
R
Muscat
K
D
Caribbean Sea
San José
Clipperton Island
Santo Puerto Domingo Rico
Jiddah
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
U
A
HAITI
(U.S.)
GUATEMALA HONDURAS Tegucigalpa Guatemala San Salvador NICARAGUA EL SALVADOR Managua
(U.S.)
Navassa Island
A
Taipei
BANGLADESH
¯ Karachi
Midway Islands
M
Kingston
R
Abu Dhabi
Okinawa
R
BELIZE Belmopan
Nouakchott
A
Thimphu
30
E
JAMAICA
ST. KITTS AND NEVIS
H
Kathmandu
Kanpur
OMAN
East China Sea
Chongqing
BHUTAN
K
Puebla
A
AS
NC
Prince
(U.K.)
QATAR
ARABIA
AY
NEPAL
Shanghai
Wuhan
ANA TRE
ISLAS REVILLAGIGEDO (MEXICO)
Cayman Is.
Manama Doha Riyadh
Red Sea
PAKISTAN
Persian Gulf
Chengdu
(highest point in Asia and the world, 8850 m)
RI
Mexico
BAHRAIN
Mt. Everest
AL
A
I C
T N
M I D A T L A
Guadalajara
E
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS
SAUDI
EGYPT
Western Sahara
S
New Delhi
KUWAIT
Kuwait
LIBYA
IM
JORDAN
ALGERIA Laayoune (El Aaiún)
H
Lahore
Yokohama
TO
CUBA
¯ Islamabad
IRAN
CHINA
Line of Actual Control
N) PA
MEXICO
Honolulu
Baghdad
Jerusalem Dead Sea (lowest point in Asia, -408 m)
Cairo
CANARY ISLANDS (SP.)
AFGHANISTAN
Tokyo Osaka
Pusan
M
R
MOROCCO
Amman
IRAQ
Yellow Sea
HO - S
Milwaukee Deep Turks and Caicos Islands (deepest point of the (U.K.) Atlantic Ocean, -8605 m) British Virgin Islands (U.K.) Port-au- DOMINICAN Anguilla (U.K.) REPUBLIC
ISRAEL
Alexandria
Damascus
Indian claim
PACIFIC OCEAN
JAPAN
Seoul SOUTH KOREA
(JA
Havana
Beirut
Tianjin
PO
Tropic of Cancer (23˚27')
CYPRUS
(GR.)
Kabul
NORTH
Sea of NORTH KOREA Japan Pyongyang
M
Gulf of Mexico
Monterrey
THE BAHAMAS Nassau
Miami
LEB.
Shenyang
Beijing
NA
30
Crete
occupied by the SOVIET UNION in 1945, administered by RUSSIA, claimed by JAPAN
Sapporo
DESERT
1972 Line of Control
Mashhad
Tehran
SYRIA
RT
TAKLA MAKAN
Dushanbe TAJIKISTAN
Ashgabat
Aleppo
Nicosia
Tripoli
Houston
TURKEY
Bishkek KYRGYZSTAN
Tashkent
TURKMENISTAN
¯
Mediterranean Sea
Rabat
UZBEKISTAN
GO
SE
DE
BI
-
Casablanca
Baku
Athens
Tunis MALTA Valletta TUNISIA
(SP.)
MADEIRA ISLANDS (PORT.)
Ürümqi
(lowest point in Europe, -28 m)
Yerevan
(IT.)
Algiers
Melilla
E
·Izmir
MONGOLIA
ARMENIA AZERBAIJAN
Ankara
GREECE
(IT.)
Tbilisi
US MT S.
KURIL ISLANDS
.
Aral Sea Caspian Sea
Khabarovsk
Ulaanbaatar
-
D
G
GEORGIA
Istanbul
MACEDONIA
Tirana
Sicily Gibraltar(U.K.)
CAU C AS
BULGARIA
Skopje
ALB.
Sardinia
BALEARIC ISLANDS (SP.)
Ceuta (SP.)
OCEAN
(U.K.)
SPAIN
Sea of Azov
S
IS L A N D S AN )
Bermuda
Tijuana
Barcelona
Rome
AZORES (PORT.)
ATLANTIC
Dallas
Madrid
VATICAN CITY
(FR.)
T
Lake Balkhash
Black Sea
Sofia
M
U
NORTH
Atlanta
Los Angeles
Corsica
ANDORRA
SER.& MONT.
ITALY Sarajevo
AY
AP
Boston
Washington, D.C.
KAZAKHSTAN
Y
AN
Marseille
BOS. & HER.
MARINO
LT
(J
A
A PP
I CH LA
A
Kharkiv
Gora El'brus (highest point in Europe, 5633 m)
(U.S.)
Sakhalin
Kiev
UKRAINE
ALEUTIAN ISLANDS Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy
Irkutsk
Astana
Vienna
MONACO
PORTUGAL Lisbon
Samara
Sea of Okhotsk
E
Denver
(FRANCE)
Lake Baikal
Novosibirsk
Omsk
BELARUS
Bratislava MOLDOVA LIECH. SWITZ. AUSTRIA Budapest Chi sinau FRANCE S Ljubljana HUNGARY P Bern L ROMANIA Odesa SLOVENIA A CROATIA Belgrade Zagreb Milan SAN Bucharest
Bay of Biscay
St. Pierre and Miquelon
Lake Ontario
NS AI NT U O New York M Philadelphia
Lake Erie
STATES
Montréal
Yekaterinburg
Minsk
SLOVAKIA
Paris
60
Bering Sea
RIDG
Detroit Chicago
BELGIUM LUX.
Yakutsk
ST
Death Valley (lowest point in North America, -86 m)
Toronto
Brussels
Guernsey (U.K.) Jersey (U.K.)
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Lake Michigan
UNITED
Celtic Sea
NETH.
A
R U S S I A
Nizhniy Novgorod
Moscow
VA
San Francisco
M O U NT A I N S
PACIFIC
Minneapolis
London
POLAND Warsaw Berlin GERMANY Prague Luxembourg CZECH REP. Hamburg
Amsterdam
KINGDOM
Vilnius
RUSSIA
I
TY E A
Island of Newfoundland
Isle of Man (U.K.)
R
NINE
Dublin IRELAND
Lake Winnipeg
Y
NORTH
Belfast
Edmonton
Baltic LAT. Sea Riga LITH.
North DENMARK Sea Copenhagen
UNITED
E
L
CANADA
St. Petersburg
Tallinn EST.
B
URA
Stockholm Rockall (U.K.)
Lake Huron Ottawa
Helsinki
I
MO
Oslo
Labrador Sea
Lake Superior
FINLAND
Gulf of Bothnia
(DEN.)
Tórshavn
S
White Sea
SWEDEN
Faroe Islands
Reykjavík
Hudson Bay
Vancouver Seattle
Nuuk (Godthåb)
NORWAY
ICELAND
Denmark Strait
RIF T
Davis Strait
GRE AT
ROCK
NDS
ISLA
Wrangel Island
East Siberian Sea
Arctic Circle (66˚33')
Gulf of Alaska
Kiritimati (Christmas Island) (KIRIBATI)
NEW SIBERIAN ISLANDS
Laptev Sea
(DENMARK)
Baffin Island
60
Johnston Atoll
180
ARCTIC OCEAN
Kara Sea
NOVAYA ZEMLYA
(NORWAY)
Greenland
Baffin Bay
Great Slave Lake
Whitehorse
(U.S.)
Svalbard
150
120
SEVERNAYA ZEMLYA
Longyearbyen
Great Bear Lake
Anchorage
OCEAN
90
Arctic Circle (66˚33')
U. S.
IAN
60
FRANZ JOSEF LAND
Greenland Sea
Victoria Island
Mt. McKinley (highest point in North America, 6194 m)
T ALEU
Ellesmere Island
ISLANDS
Barrow
30
ARCTIC OCEAN QUEEN ELIZABETH
Beaufort Sea
0
0
I
Sicily / AZORES
Macquarie Island (AUSTL.)
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (administered by U.K., claimed by ARGENTINA)
BOUNTY ISLANDS (N.Z.) ANTIPODES ISLANDS (N.Z.)
Campbell Island (N.Z.)
60 SOUTH ORKNEY ISLANDS
SOUTHERN OCEAN SOUTHERN OCEAN
SOUTHERN OCEAN
Antarctic Circle (66˚33') Amery Ice Shelf
Bellingshausen Sea
Weddell Sea
Amundsen Sea
Ross Sea
Ross Sea Ronne Ice Shelf
+ Vinson Massif (highest point in Antarctica, 4897 m)
Ross Ice Shelf 150
120
Antarctic
a* Ross Ice Shelf
90
60
30
0
30
60
90
120
150
180
April 2005 *Twenty-one of 28 Antarctic consultative nations have made no claims to Antarctic territory (although Russia and the United States have reserved the right to do so) and they do not recognize the claims of the other nations.
Boundary representation is not necessarily authoritative.
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