Physical Map of the World, September 2007

AUSTRALIA Independent state

Bermuda Dependency or area of special sovereignty
Sicily / AZORES Island / island group 150 120 90 60 30 0 30 60 90 120 150 180

Capital ARCTIC OCEAN ARCTIC OCEAN FRANZ JOSEF

ARCTIC OCEAN
LAND SEVERNAYA
ZEMLYA
Scale 1:35,000,000 Ellesmere
QUEEN ELIZABETH Island
Robinson Projection Longyearbyen
NEW SIBERIAN ISLANDS
Greenland Sea Svalbard NOVAYA Kara Sea Laptev Sea
standard parallels 38°N and 38°S ISLANDS (NORWAY) ZEMLYA
Banks
Island Barents Sea
Beaufort Sea Baffin Greenland East Siberian Sea Wrangel
(DENMARK) Island
Barrow
Victoria Bay
Island Baffin Jan Mayen
(NORWAY)
Norwegian Chukchi
Island Sea
Sea
Arctic Circle (66°33') Arctic Circle (66°33')
U. S. NORWAY
Mt. McKinley
Great
Bear Lake Denmark ICELAND
White Sea
S I B E R I A
Davis SWEDEN

TAINS
(highest point in North America, 6194 m) Nuuk (Godthåb) Faroe
Strait Reykjavík
Strait Islands Gulf FINLAND
Tórshavn (DEN.) of Yakutsk
Anchorage Great
Slave Lake Bothnia
R U S S I A

UN
Whitehorse Helsinki
Oslo
60 Hudson Stockholm
60

MO
Saint Petersburg
Gulf of Alaska Bay Rockall Tallinn EST.
(U.K.) Bering Sea

ROCK
Baltic Nizhniy Yekaterinburg
UNITED North Sea Riga
CANADA Labrador
Sea Belfast
DENMARK
Sea Copenhagen RUSSIA
LAT.
LITH.
Vilnius
Moscow
Novgorod
Omsk Novosibirsk Lake Sea of
Minsk Baikal

L
Edmonton Okhotsk

URA
LAN DS Dublin Isle of
Man (U.K.) Hamburg POLAND Samara ALEUTIAN ISLANDS
Amsterdam BELARUS
TIAN IS Lake IRELAND KINGDOM Warsaw Irkutsk Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy (U.S.)

Y
Winnipeg NETH.
ALEU Island of
Berlin Astana Sakhalin
London GERMANY Kyiv
Newfoundland Brussels Prague A
Celtic LT
Vancouver Guernsey (U.K.) Luxembourg UKRAINE Kharkiv AY
Sea Jersey (U.K.)
BELGIUM CZECH REP.
SLOVAKIA Khabarovsk
LUX. M
Gulf of
Paris BratislavaVienna KAZAKHSTAN Ulaanbaatar KURIL
M O U NT A I N S
Lake St. Lawrence LIECH. MOLDOVA T
S
Superior SWITZ. AUSTRIA Budapest Chi sinau Lake Balkhash . ISLANDS
Seattle Lake FRANCE S
Huron Bern L P SLOVENIA HUNGARY
ROMANIA Sea of Gora El'brus
MONGOLIA
Ottawa Montréal St. Pierre Bay of A Ljubljana Odesa Azov (highest point in Europe, Aral
Minneapolis Lake and Miquelon Biscay Milan SAN Zagreb CROATIA Belgrade Bucharest 5633 m) Sea
Michigan RT
Toronto (FRANCE) MARINO BOS. & HER.
SER. SE occupied by the SOVIET UNION in 1945,
Lake Ontario MONACO CAU
C AS Caspian DE administered by RUSSIA, claimed by JAPAN
ITALY Sarajevo Sofia Black Sea US Ürümqi
OB
I Sapporo
NORTH UNITED Detroit
AI
NS
Boston ANDORRA
Marseille
Corsica
(FR.) VATICAN Podgorica
MONT.
BULGARIA GEORGIA
Tbilisi
MT
S. Sea
(lowest point in UZBEKISTAN Bishkek G Shenyang
Chicago
Lake Erie
OU
NT
PORTUGAL
Madrid Barcelona
CITY
Rome ALB.
Tirana
Skopje
MACEDONIA
Istanbul
Ankara
ARMENIA AZERBAIJAN
Europe, -28 m)
KYRGYZSTAN
Beijing NORTH KOREA Japan
Sea of NORTH
PACIFIC Denver M New York
Philadelphia
Lisbon SPAIN BALEARIC Sardinia
GREECE ·Izmir TURKEY
Yerevan Baku TURKMENISTAN
Tashkent
Dushanbe
TAKLA MAKAN
Pyongyang
San Francisco STATES AC
HI
A N
Washington, D.C. NORTH AZORES
ISLANDS
(SP.)
(IT.)

Athens ¯
Ashgabat TAJIKISTAN DESERT
Tianjin
Seoul JAPAN
PACIFIC
Sicily
OCEAN Death Valley
(lowest point in
AP
PA
L (PORT.)
Gibraltar(U.K.) Algiers Tunis MALTA
(IT.)
Aleppo
Mashhad 1972
Indian
claim Yellow SOUTH Tokyo
OCEAN
North America, -86 m)
ATLANTIC E
Ceuta (SP.)
Melilla TUNISIA
Valletta
Crete
Nicosia
LEB.
SYRIA Tehran Kabul
Line of Control

CHINA
Sea KOREA
Pusan
-
Osaka Yokohama
Los Angeles Atlanta G MADEIRA
Casablanca
(SP.)
Mediterranean Sea (GR.) CYPRUS
Beirut Damascus IRAQ Line of
Dallas D
ISLANDS Rabat AFGHANISTAN ¯ Actual
Bermuda Islamabad
Tijuana (U.K.) OCEAN I (PORT.)
Tripoli Amman
Baghdad
IRAN
Control
H
IM Mt. Everest

NA
Alexandria ISRAEL Lahore Shanghai

R
Jerusalem Dead Sea (lowest point in Asia, -408 m) (highest point in Asia Chengdu
AL Wuhan
MOROCCO

M
D S
JORDAN and the world, 8850 m)
Houston Cairo
30 AY 30

PO
-
CANARY ISLANDS KUWAIT New East China

L A N
AS Chongqing

(JA
(SP.)
ALGERIA Kuwait BHUTAN

I C
Delhi NEPAL

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Sea

PA
PAKISTAN

N)
LIBYA Midway

H
IS
Laayoune Persian Kathmandu

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SAUDI Thimphu

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THE Okinawa

AN
BAHRAIN Gulf Islands
Miami (El Aaiún)
EGYPT OMAN -
Kanpur

-
N
Manama Abu

AP
BAHAMAS (U.S.)

O
Gulf of Mexico Western

U
Monterrey Taipei
Doha

Y
Dhabi

(J
Riyadh Marcus Island

L A
K
Nassau Sahara ¯
Karachi BANGLADESH U (JAPAN)
Tropic of Cancer (23°27') Havana QATAR UNITED ARAB R
Y Tropic of Cancer (23°27')
EMIRATES Muscat
Turks and Milwaukee Deep Red - - Kolkata Dhaka
ARABIA Ahmadabad Taiwan

AT
Mandalay
MEXICO Caicos Islands (deepest point of the
(U.K.)
Sea
Jiddah Hong Kong

HAWAIIAN
Honolulu
CUBA
Atlantic Ocean, -8605 m)
British Virgin S A H A R A L KH
AL
I
OMAN BURMA Hanoi Macau S.A.R. Luzon Strait

D -
S.A.R.
Guadalajara
Port-au- DOMINICAN
Islands
B' A INDIA LAOS Philippine
ISLANDS Cayman Is. REPUBLIC
(U.K.)
Anguilla (U.K.) RU Nay Pyi Gulf of Wake Island
MAURITANIA

H
Mexico (U.K.) Prince Vientiane Tonkin Hainan (U.S.)

NC
(U.S.) Puebla ST. KITTS AND NEVIS Nouakchott Mumbai Taw Northern

M I
ISLAS JAMAICA MALI - -
Hyderabad
Dao
Sea Mariana

A TRE
REVILLAGIGEDO BELIZE Kingston HAITI Santo Puerto ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA Rangoon
Navassa
Belmopan Domingo Rico PARACEL Islands
Johnston Atoll (MEXICO) Island
(U.S.)
(U.S.)
Guadeloupe (FR.) Tombouctou NIGER ERITREA YEMEN
Bay of ISLANDS (U.S.)
GUATEMALA HONDURAS DOMINICA CAPE VERDE Khartoum THAILAND Saipan
(U.S.)
CHAD

IAN
Montserrat
Dakar Asmara Sanaa VIETNAM Manila
Tegucigalpa Caribbean Sea (U.K.)
Martinique (FR.) SENEGAL Bengal Bangkok
Guatemala ST. VINCENT AND ST. LUCIA Praia Niamey Arabian South China Hagåtña

AR
Banjul BURKINA Bengaluru
San Salvador Aruba THE GRENADINES BARBADOS Bamako SUDAN ANDAMAN
PHILIPPINES

M
NICARAGUA (NETH.) FASO Lac 'Assal Chennai CAMBODIA Guam
EL SALVADOR Neth. Antilles THE GAMBIA (lowest point in Africa, DJIBOUTI Gulf of Aden
ISLANDS
Sea (U.S.)
Managua (NETH.)
GRENADA
Port-of-Spain
Bissau Ouagadougou N'Djamena -155 m) Djibouti Socotra
(YEMEN) Sea (INDIA)
Ho Chi Minh City
Challenger Deep

PHIL
Maracaibo
GUINEA-BISSAU GUINEA Phnom Penh (world's greatest ocean depth, -10924 m) MARSHALL
San José LAKSHADWEEP
Clipperton Island Caracas TRINIDAD AND
Conakry
BENIN NIGERIA Addis
Ababa
Andaman
Sea Gulf of FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA ISLANDS

I
TOBAGO (INDIA)
EY

PPIN
(FRANCE) Abuja Thailand SPRATLY
COSTA RICA Panama Freetown CÔTE TOGO LL ISLANDS
S

D'IVOIRE GHANA

VA
PANAMA

E
SIERRA Laccadive Melekeok Majuro
VENEZUELA Georgetown Yamoussoukro CENTRAL ETHIOPIA Colombo NICOBAR Palikir
E

TREN
Kingman Reef (U.S.) Isla del Coco Medellín LEONE Lomé Lagos Sea ISLANDS
Paramaribo AFRICAN REPUBLIC SRI Bandar Seri
D

GUYANA Monrovia Accra Porto- (INDIA) PALAU

T
(COSTA RICA)
Palmyra Atoll (U.S.) French Guiana Abidjan CAMEROON SOMALIA Begawan

RIF
LANKA

CH
LIBERIA Novo Bangui
N

Isla de (FRANCE) BRUNEI

Malpelo Bogotá SURINAME Cayenne Male Kuala
Cali Malabo Medan Lumpur
A

EQUATORIAL GUINEA Yaoundé MALDIVES Celebes Sea

COLOMBIA M A L A Y S I A

AT
PENEDOS DE Gulf of Guinea UGANDA
Kiritimati

GRE
SÃO PEDRO E SÃO PAULO Mogadishu Singapore Tarawa Howland Island (U.S.)
(Christmas Island) SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE Kampala
(KIRIBATI) Equator Quito
(BRAZIL)
Equator São Tome Libreville REP. OF KENYA SINGAPORE Equator Baker Island (U.S.)
0 0
Jarvis GALAPAGOS GABON THE DEMOCRATIC Nairobi Yaren NAURU
Island ECUADOR Annobon CONGO RWANDA Kigali District
ISLANDS Belém ARQUIPÉLAGO DE Lake
(U.S.) Guayaquil FERNANDO DE NORONHA (EQUA. GUI.) REPUBLIC Mt. Kilimanjaro K I R I B A T I
(ECUADOR) Manaus Victoria (highest point in Africa, 5895 m)
(BRAZIL) Brazzaville
Fortaleza
OF THE CONGO
Bujumbura
BURUNDI Victoria British Indian
I N D O N E S I A Bismarck Sea

ANGOLA Kinshasa Ocean Territory Jakarta Java Sea Banda Sea

PAPUA
Lake

JA
(Cabinda) Dodoma
Dar es Salaam (U.K.)
NEW GUINEA SOLOMON
PE

Tanganyika
TANZANIA

V
K I R I B A T I Surabaya ISLANDS
RU

Diego

A
T Bandung Dili
ÎLES MARQUISES Ascension Luanda SEYCHELLES Garcia R Funafuti
(Fr. Poly.) (St. Helena) E
- C

PERU NC Arafura
BRAZIL Lake H
TIMOR-LESTE
Sea Port Honiara TUVALU Tokelau
(N.Z.)

E
Christmas Island

MID - INDIAN
HI

Lubumbashi Nyasa
A

Moroni Glorioso Islands Moresby

RIDG
(AUSTL.)
L

(deepest point of the

Timor
E

(FRANCE) Indian Ocean, -7258 m)

Cocos
ANGOLA Sea
N

Lima COMOROS SAMOA

Grea
(Keeling) Islands Ashmore and Wallis and
Salvador Lilongwe
Mayotte Apia
INDIAN
D

(AUSTL.) Cartier Islands Futuna

Coral

t
(administered by FRANCE,
TR

Gulf of Mata-Utu
Cook Islands E Lago SOUTH ZAMBIA claimed by COMOROS) (AUSTL.)
Carpentaria (FRANCE)
Namibe MALAWI Pago Pago
EN

(N.Z.) C S St. Helena Tromelin Island

Titicaca Brasília Sea

Barrier
ST
ARCHIPEL DES TUAMOTU H (St. Helena) (FRANCE) American
La Paz Lusaka Juan de Nova FIJI
(Fr. Poly.) Island (FR.) VANUATU Samoa
Papeete SOUTH PACIFIC ATLANTIC OCEAN

TY E A
(U.S.)
Niue SOCIETY BOLIVIA MOZAMBIQUE Re Coral Sea
Harare Antananarivo ef Port-Vila
ALT

(N.Z.) ISLANDS Belo Islands Suva

NA
ZIMBABWE Mozambique Port

H
IPL

(Fr. Poly.) Horizonte (AUSTL.)

ATAC

Martin Vaz
OCEAN

OC
Saint-

NC
F r e n c h P o l y n e s i a OCEAN Channel Louis
ANO

(BRAZIL)

M
NAMIBIA Denis New

RE
NINE
Trindade Bassas Nuku'alofa
MAURITIUS

IB
BOTSWANA MADAGASCAR Caledonia

AT
da India
(FRANCE)

EA
(BRAZIL)
TONGA
AMA

Reunion

NG
(FRANCE)
Windhoek KALAHARI (FRANCE)
PARAGUAY Rio de Janeiro (FRANCE)

TO
Tropic of Capricorn (23°27') Walvis Bay Europa Island Tropic of Capricorn (23°27') Noumea

N
DESERT (FRANCE)
DESERT

São Paulo

DESER
ÎLES TUBUAI Gaborone Alice Springs

R
(Fr. Poly.) Asunción

ID
Pitcairn Islands Pretoria
Adamstown
(U.K.) Isla Sala y Gómez
Isla San Felíx
(CHILE) Isla San Ambrosio St. Helena Johannesburg Mbabane
Maputo G
E A U S T R A L I A SOUTH
(CHILE)
MI

T
Easter Island (CHILE) Lake Eyre
Norfolk

H
SWAZILAND (lowest point in Brisbane KERMADEC

C
(CHILE) (U.K.) LESOTHO Island

N
Pôrto GREAT VICTORIA Australia, -15 m)
PACIFIC ISLANDS

E
(AUSTL.)
D-A
SOUTH Maseru (N.Z.)

R
Alegre DESERT

T
30 30
Durban
Córdoba AFRICA OCEAN

C
CHILE Perth

E
Lord Howe

D
TLA NTIC

Cerro Aconcagua

A
(highest point in South America, Island

M
URUGUAY (AUSTL.)

R
6962 m)

E
Santiago

K
ARCHIPIÉLAGO Buenos Aires Cape Sydney
Town Canberra
JUAN FERNÁNDEZ Montevideo Mount Kosciuszko
(CHILE)
ARGENTINA Great Australian
(highest point in
ANDE

Île Amsterdam Australia, 2229m) Auckland

(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands) Melbourne
TRISTAN DA CUNHA (St. Helena)
Bight NEW
Île Saint-Paul
(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)
Tasman Sea ZEALAND
Gough Island
S

(St. Helena)
RI

Tasmania Wellington
French Southern and Antarctic Lands
D

(FRANCE) Christchurch
PATAGONIA

CHATHAM ISLANDS
E

(N.Z.)

PRINCE EDWARD ÎLES CROZET

Laguna del Carbón Falkland Islands (Fr. S. and Ant. Lands) SNARES ISLANDS BOUNTY ISLANDS
ISLANDS
(lowest point in South (Islas Malvinas) (N.Z.) (N.Z.)
America and the Western (SOUTH AFRICA)
(administered by U.K., ÎLES KERGUELEN AUCKLAND ANTIPODES ISLANDS
Hemisphere, -105 m)
claimed by ARGENTINA) (Fr. S. and Ant. Lands) ISLANDS (N.Z.)
(N.Z.)
Stanley Heard Island and
Bouvet Island Campbell
Punta Arenas McDonald Islands Island
(NORWAY)
(AUSTL.) (N.Z.)
Macquarie
South Georgia and the Island
Scotia Sea South Sandwich Islands (AUSTL.)
(administered by U.K.,
claimed by ARGENTINA)
60
Drake 60
Passage SOUTH ORKNEY
ISLANDS
SOUTHERN OCEAN
SOUTHERN OCEAN
Antarctic Circle (66°33') SOUTHERN OCEAN Antarctic Circle (66°33')
Amery Ice
Shelf

Bellingshausen Sea Weddell Sea

Amundsen Sea
Ross Sea
Ross Sea September 2007
Vinson Massif
+ Ronne Ice Shelf
A n t a r c t i c a* *Twenty-one of 28 Antarctic consultative
nations have made no claims to Antarctic
Ross (highest point in Antarctica, 4897 m)
Ross Ice Shelf territory (although Russia and the United
Ice Shelf States have reserved the right to do so) and
they do not recognize the claims of the other
nations.
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Boundary representation is not necessarily authoritative.

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