Physical Map of the World, April 2008 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
Ellesmere Island
Banks Island
Norwegian Sea
Jan Mayen (NORWAY)
Chukchi Sea
Buenos Aires Montevideo
ARGENTINA
TAINS
MO L (FRANCE)
Europa Island (FRANCE)
Pretoria
E
Christmas Island
NC
(AUSTL.)
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
AFRICA
E
H
S
OCEAN
Arafura Sea
TIMOR-LESTE
NC
SOLOMON ISLANDS
(deepest point of the Indian Ocean, -7258 m)
Ashmore and Cartier Islands
Timor Sea Gulf of Carpentaria
(AUSTL.)
Mbabane SWAZILAND
Coral Sea Islands
(U.S.)
Port-Vila
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
(AUSTL.)
(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)
TRISTAN DA CUNHA (St. Helena)
Île Saint-Paul
Sydney
Mount Kosciuszko (highest point in Australia, 2229m)
Great Australian Bight
Île Amsterdam
30
Auckland
Melbourne
NEW ZEALAND
Tasman Sea
S D RI
(St. Helena)
KERMADEC ISLANDS (N.Z.)
OCEAN
Lord Howe Island
Canberra
Tasmania
Wellington
French Southern and Antarctic Lands
Christchurch
G
(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.)
Cape Town
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) (administered by U.K., claimed by ARGENTINA)
Scotia Sea
Tokelau (N.Z.)
Wallis and Futuna
Coral Sea Re ef
(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)
Laguna del Carbón (lowest point in South America and the Western Hemisphere, -105 m)
Funafuti
TUVALU
Honiara
Port Moresby
Gough Island
PATAGONIA
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Dili
H
(AUSTL.)
A
Alice Springs
G
Maputo
I
K I R I B A T I
Bismarck Sea
Banda Sea
Surabaya
Bandung
LESOTHO SOUTH Maseru
(U.K.)
Punta Arenas
Antarctic Circle (66°33')
R
N
Howland Island (U.S.) Baker Island (U.S.) 0
TO NG AT RE NC H
Reunion
T
O Java Sea
ID
URUGUAY
MADAGASCAR
Port Louis MAURITIUS
Gaborone Johannesburg
Tarawa
Equator
R
Santiago
ANDE
ARCHIPIÉLAGO JUAN FERNÁNDEZ (CHILE)
Córdoba Cerro Aconcagua (highest point in South America, 6962 m)
KALAHARI DESERT
T
Pôrto Alegre
CHILE
St. Helena
(FRANCE)
SaintDenis
INDIAN
N
São Paulo
Asunción
30
BOTSWANA
Walvis Bay
Antananarivo
Mozambique Channel Bassas da India
(FRANCE)
EA
Rio de Janeiro
MI D-A TLA NTIC
Easter Island (CHILE)
Isla San Ambrosio (CHILE)
Windhoek DESER
Isla San Felíx (CHILE)
Isla Sala y Gómez (CHILE)
PARAGUAY
OCEAN
Tromelin Island
MOZAMBIQUE
ZIMBABWE NAMIBIA
(administered by FRANCE, claimed by COMOROS)
OC
(BRAZIL)
DESERT
Pitcairn Islands (U.K.)
(BRAZIL)
IB
Trindade
AMA
Adamstown
Martin Vaz
(FRANCE)
Juan de Nova Island (FR.)
Harare
M
ATAC
(23°27')
ÎLES TUBUAI (Fr. Poly.)
ANO IPL ALT
Tropic of Capricorn
Belo Horizonte
MALAWI
Lusaka
ATLANTIC
BOLIVIA
(FRANCE)
(St. Helena)
NA
SOUTH PACIFIC a OCEAN
Glorioso Islands
Mayotte
Lilongwe
Namibe
St. Helena
Diego Garcia
COMOROS
ZAMBIA
SOUTH
Brasília
Celebes Sea
A
Barrier
Lago Titicaca La Paz
S
I
PALAU
t Grea
D
P o l y n e s i
EN
F r e n c h
E
H
S
D
Jakarta A
N
TR
(Fr. Poly.)
Moroni
ANGOLA
N
V
A
SOCIETY ISLANDS
Niue (N.Z.)
Papeete
C
Lake Nyasa
Lubumbashi
Salvador
(U.K.)
Dar es Salaam
SEYCHELLES
E
Cook Islands
TANZANIA
I
British Indian Ocean Territory
MID - INDIAN
L HI - C
Lima
Dodoma
Luanda
(St. Helena)
BRAZIL
Victoria
JA
RU
Ascension
PERU
BRUNEI
Yaren NAURU District
Mt. Kilimanjaro (highest point in Africa, 5895 m)
BURUNDI
Lake Tanganyika
(Cabinda)
PE
ÎLES MARQUISES (Fr. Poly.)
UN
OF THE CONGO
Kinshasa
ANGOLA
Kuala Lumpur M A L A Y Singapore SINGAPORE
Majuro
Palikir
Nairobi
Lake Victoria Bujumbura
REPUBLIC
Fortaleza
Mogadishu
KENYA
RWANDA Kigali
Brazzaville
Medan
MALDIVES
DEMOCRATIC
(EQUA. GUI.)
(BRAZIL)
Bandar Seri Begawan
Male
Melekeok
H
Annobon
SRI LANKA
MARSHALL ISLANDS
FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA
C
Libreville REP. OF THE GABON CONGO
São Tome
SPRATLY ISLANDS
NICOBAR ISLANDS (INDIA)
(U.S.) Challenger Deep (world's greatest ocean depth, -10924 m)
N
Manaus
UGANDA Kampala
Ho Chi Minh City
Guam
E
SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE
Equator
SOMALIA
Colombo
PHILIPPINES
R
Guayaquil
Yaoundé
Gulf of Guinea
ARQUIPÉLAGO DE FERNANDO DE NORONHA
Belém
Bangui
Phnom Penh Gulf of Thailand
Saipan
Hagåtña
T
(ECUADOR)
ECUADOR
CAMEROON
Laccadive Sea
South China Sea
CAMBODIA
Andaman Sea
(INDIA)
EY LL
ETHIOPIA
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
ANDAMAN ISLANDS (INDIA)
Chennai LAKSHADWEEP
Addis Ababa
Abuja
(YEMEN)
Bangkok
C
GALAPAGOS ISLANDS
(U.S.)
NIGERIA
Socotra
Djibouti
Bengaluru
(U.S.)
Manila
VIETNAM
(U.S.)
E
Jarvis Island
N'Djamena
DJIBOUTI Gulf of Aden
Bengal
Arabian Sea
Sea PARACEL ISLANDS
THAILAND
Wake Island
D
(BRAZIL)
Quito
Lac 'Assal (lowest point in Africa, -155 m)
Sanaa
Rangoon
Northern Mariana Islands
A
PENEDOS DE SÃO PEDRO E SÃO PAULO
SUDAN
Malabo
EQUATORIAL GUINEA
COLOMBIA Equator
Niamey
Asmara
Philippine
Hainan Dao
M
Cali
Bogotá
Georgetown Paramaribo GUYANA French Guiana (FRANCE) SURINAME Cayenne
CHAD
Gulf of
Vientiane Tonkin
R
S D N
Isla de Malpelo
A
Palmyra Atoll (U.S.)
VENEZUELA
SENEGAL
Khartoum
Bay of
YEMEN
ERITREA
S.A.R.
LAOS
CH TREN
Medellín
Isla del Coco (COSTA RICA)
NIGER
Hong Kong Luzon Strait Macau S.A.R.
Hanoi
Nay Pyi Taw
- Hyderabad
Tropic of Cancer (23°27')
Taiwan
Mandalay
BURMA
INDIA
(JAPAN)
E PPIN
Kingman Reef (U.S.)
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
Caracas
OMAN
MALI
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
Port-of-Spain
Maracaibo
COSTA RICA Panama PANAMA
Praia
I
AL
KH
Y
(U.S.)
Marcus Island
I PHIL
(FRANCE)
Martinique (FR.) ST. VINCENT AND ST. LUCIA THE GRENADINES BARBADOS Neth. Antilles (NETH.) GRENADA
L B' A RU
Mumbai
Tombouctou
Dakar
(U.K.)
ARABIA
MAURITANIA
CAPE VERDE
DOMINICA
Jiddah
Kolkata Dhaka
- Ahmadabad
K
E
Aruba (NETH.)
ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA Guadeloupe (FR.)
(U.S.) Montserrat
A
R
Muscat
U
Midway Islands
K
Caribbean Sea
San José
Clipperton Island
Santo Puerto Domingo Rico
(U.S.)
GUATEMALA HONDURAS Tegucigalpa Guatemala San Salvador NICARAGUA EL SALVADOR Managua
(U.S.)
Navassa Island
HAITI
R
Taipei
BANGLADESH
¯ Karachi
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Okinawa
A TRE
Kingston
Nouakchott
A
Thimphu
Kanpur
30
IAN
JAMAICA
BELIZE Belmopan
ST. KITTS AND NEVIS
H
Kathmandu
East China Sea
Chongqing
BHUTAN
AR
Puebla
A
AS
Shanghai
Wuhan
M
Prince
(U.K.)
E
ISLAS REVILLAGIGEDO (MEXICO)
Cayman Is.
QATAR
AY
NEPAL
OMAN
Abu Dhabi
Manama Doha Riyadh
Red Sea
PAKISTAN
Persian Gulf
Chengdu
(highest point in Asia and the world, 8850 m)
-
I C T
N
M I D AT L A
Mexico
EGYPT
BAHRAIN
Mt. Everest
AL
Yokohama
O
Guadalajara
SAUDI
Pusan
OT
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS
ALGERIA
Western Sahara
IM
New Delhi
KUWAIT
LIBYA
H
Lahore
Kuwait
Laayoune (El Aaiún)
S
¯ Islamabad
IRAN
CHINA
Line of Actual Control
Tokyo Osaka
N) PA
CUBA
Baghdad
Dead Sea (lowest point in Asia, -408 m)
Yellow Sea
PACIFIC OCEAN
JAPAN
Seoul SOUTH KOREA
H - S
MEXICO
Honolulu
AFGHANISTAN
Tianjin
Indian claim
JORDAN
Cairo
CANARY ISLANDS (SP.)
IRAQ
NORTH KOREA Japan Pyongyang
(JA
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
Jerusalem
Amman
Kabul
NORTH
Sea of
Beijing
PO
Havana
ISRAEL
Alexandria
Damascus
Shenyang
DESERT
1972 Line of Control
Mashhad
occupied by the SOVIET UNION in 1945, administered by RUSSIA, claimed by JAPAN
Sapporo
M
Tropic of Cancer (23°27')
THE BAHAMAS Nassau
Miami
LEB.
Beirut
RT
TAKLA MAKAN
Dushanbe TAJIKISTAN
Ashgabat
Tehran
SYRIA
Tashkent
TURKMENISTAN
Aleppo
CYPRUS
(GR.)
MOROCCO
Gulf of Mexico
Monterrey
Rabat
Baku
TURKEY Nicosia
Crete
Tripoli
Houston
30
Yerevan
SE
-
D
ARMENIA AZERBAIJAN
G
Bishkek KYRGYZSTAN
DE
I OB
IS L A N D S AN )
I
Casablanca
UZBEKISTAN
(lowest point in Europe, -28 m)
KURIL ISLANDS
MONGOLIA Ürümqi
¯
Mediterranean Sea
(SP.)
MADEIRA ISLANDS (PORT.)
S.
Caspian Sea
Athens
Tunis MALTA Valletta TUNISIA
Melilla
E
·Izmir
US MT
Khabarovsk
Ulaanbaatar .
Aral Sea
Tbilisi
Ankara
S
NA
OCEAN
(U.K.)
G
GEORGIA
(IT.)
Algiers
Gibraltar(U.K.)
CAU C AS
BULGARIA Skopje Istanbul
GREECE
(IT.)
Sicily Ceuta (SP.)
Gora El'brus (highest point in Europe, 5633 m)
Sea of Azov
ALB. MACEDONIA
Sardinia
BALEARIC ISLANDS (SP.)
T
U
Bermuda
Tijuana
SPAIN
AZORES (PORT.)
ATLANTIC
Dallas
Barcelona
KOS.
MONT.
Tirana
Rome
M
AP
NORTH
Atlanta
Los Angeles
Madrid
VATICAN CITY
(FR.)
AY
Lake Balkhash
Black Sea
Sofia
Pristina
LT
KAZAKHSTAN
SER.
ITALY Sarajevo Podgorica
Corsica
ANDORRA
Washington, D.C.
A
Kharkiv
Y
N
SLOVAKIA
(U.S.)
Sakhalin
E
A HI AC
Astana
UKRAINE
ALEUTIAN ISLANDS Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy
Irkutsk
Kyiv
BOS. & HER.
MARINO
MONACO
Marseille
PORTUGAL Lisbon
Samara
Sea of Okhotsk
(J
(FRANCE)
Lake Ontario
Lake Baikal
Novosibirsk
Omsk
BELARUS
Bratislava MOLDOVA SWITZ. AUSTRIA Budapest Chi sinau FRANCE S HUNGARY Bern L P SLOVENIA ROMANIA Odesa A Ljubljana Zagreb CROATIA Belgrade Bucharest Milan SAN
Bay of Biscay
St. Pierre and Miquelon
Bering Sea
Vienna
LIECH.
60
RIDG
Denver
L PA AP
Montréal
Boston NS AI T N OU New York M Philadelphia
Lake Erie
STATES
Paris
Moscow
Prague
CZECH REP.
A
ST
Detroit Chicago
Luxembourg
BELGIUM LUX.
I
Yakutsk
NINE
Toronto
Berlin GERMANY
Brussels
Guernsey (U.K.) Jersey (U.K.)
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Lake Michigan
UNITED
Celtic Sea
NETH.
R
Yekaterinburg
Minsk
VA
Death Valley (lowest point in North America, -86 m)
Minneapolis
London
POLAND Warsaw
Hamburg
Amsterdam
KINGDOM
E
TY E A
Island of Newfoundland
Isle of Man (U.K.)
B
URA
Dublin IRELAND
Lake Winnipeg
Vilnius
RUSSIA
I
R U S S I A
Nizhniy Novgorod
RIF T
San Francisco
Belfast
Saint Petersburg
Tallinn EST. Baltic LAT. Sea Riga LITH.
North DENMARK Sea Copenhagen
UNITED
Edmonton
Lake Huron Ottawa
Helsinki
Stockholm
Labrador Sea
Lake Superior
FINLAND
Gulf of Bothnia
(DEN.)
Tórshavn
Rockall
CANADA
M O U NT A I N S
PACIFIC
Faroe Islands
Reykjavík
S
White Sea
SWEDEN
(U.K.)
Y
NORTH
Nuuk (Godthåb)
NORWAY
ICELAND
Denmark Strait
Oslo
Vancouver Seattle
Wrangel Island
East Siberian Sea
GRE AT
ROCK
DS
LAN N IS
TIA ALEU
ARCHIPEL DES TUAMOTU (Fr. Poly.)
NEW SIBERIAN ISLANDS
Laptev Sea
Barents Sea
Hudson Bay
Gulf of Alaska
(N.Z.)
Kara Sea
(DENMARK)
Davis Strait
60
K I R I B A T I
ARCTIC OCEAN
Arctic Circle (66°33')
Great Slave Lake
Whitehorse
Kiritimati (Christmas Island) (KIRIBATI)
180
SEVERNAYA ZEMLYA
NOVAYA ZEMLYA
(NORWAY)
Greenland
Baffin Island
Great Bear Lake
Anchorage
Johnston Atoll
Svalbard
150
120
Arctic Circle (66°33')
Mt. McKinley (highest point in North America, 6194 m)
(U.S.)
90
Longyearbyen
Baffin Bay
Victoria Island
U. S.
OCEAN
60
FRANZ JOSEF LAND
Greenland Sea
ISLANDS
Barrow
30
ARCTIC OCEAN QUEEN ELIZABETH
Beaufort Sea
0
0
R
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 + Vinson Massif (highest point in Antarctica, 4897 m)
Ross Ice Shelf 150
120
Ross Ice Shelf 90
April 2008
A n t a r c t i c a*
Ronne Ice Shelf
60
30
0
30
60
90
120
150
*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.
180
Boundary representation is not necessarily authoritative.
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