Physical Map of the World, November 2011

AUSTRALIA Bermuda
Sicily / AZORES

Independent state Dependency or area of special sovereignty Island / island group Capital
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ARCTIC OCEAN
QUEEN ELIZABETH
Ellesmere Island
Qaanaaq (Thule)

ARCTIC OCEAN
Molloy Deep (deepest point of the Arctic Ocean, -5607 m)

FRANZ JOSEF LAND

Longyearbyen

SEVERNAYA ZEMLYA

ARCTIC OCEAN
NEW SIBERIAN ISLANDS

Scale 1:35,000,000 Robinson Projection standard parallels 38N and 38S

Barrow

Beaufort Sea

Banks Island Victoria Island

ISLANDS
Resolute Pond Inlet

Greenland Sea
Baffin Bay

Svalbard
(NORWAY)

Greenland
(DENMARK)
Jan Mayen
(NORWAY)

Barents Sea

NOVAYA ZEMLYA

Kara Sea

Laptev Sea East Siberian Sea

Tiksi Pevek

Wrangel Island

Baffin Island

Norwegian Sea
NORWAY SWEDEN
Gulf of Bothnia

Chukchi Sea

Murmansk

Noril'sk

Cherskiy

Arctic Circle (6633')

Nome
Mt. McKinley (highest point in North America, 6194 m)

Arctic Circle (6633')

INS

U. S.

Fairbanks

Great Bear Lake

Nuuk
Iqaluit

Anchorage

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Gulf of Alaska

Juneau

Churchill

Hudson Bay
Kuujjuaq

Oslo

Helsinki
Tallinn

OU

Whitehorse

Great Slave Lake

Trshavn

(DEN.)

Lake Ladoga

NTA

Davis Strait

(Godthb)

Denmark Strait

ICELAND
Reykjavk
Faroe Islands

White Sea

Arkhangel'sk

A
Yakutsk Magadan

Anadyr'

Provideniya

FINLAND

Lake Onega

R U S S I A
M

Fort McMurray

ALEU

TIAN

DS SLAN

Edmonton Saskatoon Calgary Winnipeg

Lake Winnipeg

Dublin IRELAND

Isle of Man
(U.K.)

Leeds Amsterdam Cologne

Hamburg

URA

Prince George

CANADA

Labrador Sea

Rockall
(U.K.)

Stockholm

Saint Petersburg

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Glasgow Belfast

Happy ValleyGoose Bay

UNITED KINGDOM
Birmingham

Minsk

Ul'yanovsk Samara Voronezh Saratov

North Sea

DENMARK Copenhagen

Baltic Sea Riga

RUSSIA

EST. LAT.

Yaroslavl'

Perm' Nizhniy Novgorod Izhevsk Kazan' Ufa Tyumen' Yekaterinburg Chelyabinsk Tomsk Omsk Novosibirsk Barnaul Irkutsk Chita Krasnoyarsk

Bering Sea
Lake Baikal

Vancouver Seattle Portland

Minneapolis

Lake Michigan
Milwaukee

Lake Huron Ottawa

Toronto

Qubec Montral

St. Pierre and Miquelon

Lake Ontario

Halifax

(FRANCE)

NORTH PACIFIC
San Francisco Sacramento

Salt Lake City

UNITED
Denver Kansas City

OCEAN

Death Valley (lowest point in North America, -86 m)

STATES
Oklahoma City Dallas

Las Vegas Los Angeles San Diego Tijuana Mexicali Phoenix El Paso Ciudad Juarez Chihuahua Austin San Antonio New Houston Orleans

Buffalo S Boston Detroit N Chicago AI Lake NT Providence Cleveland Erie OU New York M Indianapolis Pittsburgh Philadelphia Saint Cincinnati Baltimore N Louis IA Washington, D.C. H C LA A P Norfolk AP Nashville Charlotte Atlanta

SLOVENIA HUNGARY Bern S ROMANIA Lyon SWITZ. A L P Ljubljana Milan Bay of Zagreb CROATIA Belgrade Bucharest Bordeaux Turin SAN BOS. & Biscay MARINO HER. SERBIA Toulouse MONACO Genoa Sarajevo Pristina Sofia ITALY Marseille Bilbao Podgorica KOS. Corsica BULGARIA VATICAN ANDORRA

FRANCE

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Cairo

Ludhia na

IS L A N D S )

I C

Tampa

Orlando

CANARY ISLANDS (SP.)

ALGERIA LIBYA

Al Jizah

Dead Sea (lowest point in Asia, -408 m)

KUWAIT Kuwait

z Shira

Za heda n

PAKISTAN
Hydera d ba Kara chi

M I D AT L A

Monterrey Torren

AP

Matamoros

Gulf of Mexico
Havana Mrida

Tropic of Cancer (2327')

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS
Honolulu

MEXICO
San Luis Potos Guadalajara Len

Milwaukee Deep (deepest point of the Atlantic Ocean, -8605 m)

Aswa n

Medina

Turks and Caicos Islands

NC

U.S.
ISLAS REVILLAGIGEDO (MEXICO)

Mexico City
Toluca Puebla Oaxaca

Cancn
Cayman Is.
(U.K.)

CUBA
Port-auPrince

(U.K.)

BELIZE
Belmopan

Johnston Atoll
(U.S.)

Acapulco

HAITI Santo Puerto Navassa Domingo Rico Island

(U.S.)

Nouakchott
CAPE VERDE

Tombouctou

(U.S.)

NIGER

SUDAN CHAD
Omdurman

Hydera d ba

Visha khapatnam

GUATEMALA
Guatemala City San Salvador

HONDURAS
Tegucigalpa

Caribbean Sea
Aruba
(NETH.)

EL SALVADOR
Managua

NICARAGUA
San Jos Coln Panama COSTA City Barranquilla Cartagena

DOMINICA Martinique (FR.) ST. VINCENT AND ST. LUCIA THE GRENADINES BARBADOS Curacao (NETH.) Montserrat
(U.K.)

GRENADA

Maracaibo Valencia

Caracas
Ciudad Guayana

Port of Spain
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

Clipperton Island
(FRANCE)

RICA

Kingman Reef (U.S.) Palmyra Atoll (U.S.)

PANAMA
Isla de Malpelo (COLOMBIA)

Ccuta

Bogot

Juba
GRE AT

RIF

Isla del Coco (COSTA RICA)

Medelln

VENEZUELA

Georgetown Paramaribo GUYANA French Guiana (FRANCE) SURINAME Cayenne

Dakar SENEGAL Praia Banjul BURKINA Niamey Bamako FASO THE GAMBIA N'Djamena Kano Bissau Ouagadougou Nyala GUINEA-BISSAU GUINEA BENIN NIGERIA Conakry Abuja CTE TOGO Freetown D'IVOIRE GHANA Ogbomoso SIERRA Ibadan Yamoussoukro CENTRAL LEONE Lagos Lom AFRICAN REPUBLIC Accra Monrovia PortoAbidjan CAMEROON Novo LIBERIA Bangui
EQUATORIAL GUINEA PENEDOS DE SO PEDRO E SO PAULO
Malabo Douala

Lac 'Assal (lowest point in Africa, -155 m)

Aden

DJIBOUTI Djibouti

Gulf of Aden

CAMBODIA

Socotra
(YEMEN)

(U.S.)

Kozhikode Kochi

Coimbatore Madurai

Addis Ababa
VA

EY LL

Hargeysa

(INDIA)

Andaman Sea

Phnom Penh Gulf of Thailand

Ho Chi Minh City

SPRATLY ISLANDS

Challenger Deep (world's greatest ocean depth, -10924 m)

Mekele

Arabian Sea LAKSHADWEEP

Bengaluru (Bangalore)

Chennai

ANDAMAN ISLANDS (INDIA)

South China Sea

PHILIPPINES
Cebu

Bengal

Bangkok

Hagta Guam

RI

Khartoum

Kassala

ERITREA

Asmara

YEMEN
Sanaa

Vijayawa da

Bay of

Rangoon

THAILAND

Da Nang

PARACEL ISLANDS

Sea
Manila

(U.S.)

VIETNAM

Saipan

ANA TRE

JAMAICA Kingston

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Santiago San Juan

Virgin Islands (U.S.)

British Virgin Islands (U.K.) Anguilla (U.K.) Saint-Martin (FR.) Sint Maarten (NETH.) Saint Barthelemy (FR.) ST. KITTS AND NEVIS ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA Guadeloupe (FR.)

S
MAURITANIA MALI

A
Port Sudan

Red Jeddah Sea Mecca

ARABIA
B RU ' AL

l Ahmada d Bhopa ba Indore Su rat Mumbai

BANGLADESH Dhaka
Jamshedpur Khulna Kolkata Chittagong Mandalay

Kunming

Xiamen Guangzhou Nanning Hong Kong Zhanjiang Macau S.A.R. S.A.R. Haiphong Gulf of Tonkin Shantou

Taipei
R
Y

Miami

Laayoune

THE Nassau BAHAMAS

Western Sahara

EGYPT

(J

Patna

SAUDI

BAHRAIN Persian OMAN Gulf Manama Abu Doha Riyadh Dhabi Gulf of Oman QATAR UNITED ARAB Muscat EMIRATES
K LI HA

Jaipur

Ka npur Lucknow

Guiyang

Fuzhou

Okinawa

AN

Agra

NEPAL Kathmandu

Lhasa BHUTAN

Chongqing

Thimphu

RO RO

LITH. Vilnius

Moscow

Berlin

Warsaw .
Ldz Prague Vienna
AUSTRIA

BELARUS
Homyel L'viv

Sea of Okhotsk
Sakhalin
PetropavlovskKamchatskiy

CK

Island of Newfoundland
Gulf of St. Lawrence

Celtic Sea

NETH. London Brussels Lille

Orenburg

U.S.
AL EUT IAN

Y Y
MO MOU

Guernsey(U.K.) Jersey (U.K.)

BELGIUM LUX. Frankfurt Luxembourg

GERMANY
Munich
LIECH.

POLAND
Krakw
SLOVAKIA

Astana
Qaraghandy (Karaganda)

Kyiv

CZECH REP.

Lake Superior

Paris

Bratislava Budapest

Kharkiv Donets'k MOLDOVA Chisinau Odesa

Sea of Azov

UKRAINE

LT

S ND ISLA

Volgograd Rostov
Gora El'brus (highest point in Europe, 5633 m) CAU CAS U

KAZAKHSTAN
Astrakhan' Atyra

Aral Sea

Lake Balkhash

S.

Ulaanbaatar

Khabarovsk

KURIL ISLANDS
Harbin

MONGOLIA
rmqi

Black Sea
Istanbul

GEORGIA

S M T

Porto

(FR.)

CITY

NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN

I
AZORES (PORT.)

PORTUGAL
Lisbon

Madrid

Barcelona
BALEARIC ISLANDS (SP.)
(IT.)

Rome

SPAIN
Sevilla Mlaga

Valencia

Naples
Sardinia

MONT. Skopje Tirana MACEDONIA ALB.

Tbilisi Ankara
ARMENIA

S.

Caspian Sea

Aqta (Aktau) Shymkent

Almaty

(lowest point in Europe, -28 m)

Tashkent
UZBEKISTAN

Bishkek
KYRGYZSTAN
Kashi

GO

BI

DE

T SER

Changchun

Jilin

Vladivostok

Sapporo

Occupied by the SOVIET UNION in 1945, administered by RUSSIA, claimed by JAPAN

NT NTAINS

Shenyang

Baku
AZERBAIJAN

Baotou

GREECE
Sicily
(IT.)

Palermo

Algiers
Oran Constantine

Athens

Bursa . T Izmir Konya

URKEY
Adana Aleppo

Yerevan

Gaziantep Mosul

Tabriz Erbil

TURKMENISTAN Ashgabat
Tehran
Mashhad Hera t Esfaha n

TAKLA MAKAN DESERT

Indian claim

Beijing
Datong Tianjin Shijiazhuang Taiyuan Dalian Yantai

Dushanbe TAJIKISTAN
1972 Line of Control

NORTH KOREA Pyongyang

Seoul SOUTH KOREA
Busan

Sea of Japan

NORTH
JAPAN
Nagoya

Bermuda
(U.K.)

Ceuta (SP.) MADEIRA ISLANDS (PORT.)

Gibraltar (U.K.) Melilla

(SP.)

Casablanca

Rabat

Tunis TUNISIA

MALTA

Valletta

Lanzhou

Nicosia
Crete
(GR.)

SYRIA

Fs

Tripoli

Mediterranean Sea
Bengha zi

CYPRUS Beirut LEBANON

Marrakech

Tel Aviv-Yafo Alexandria Jerusalem

ISRAEL

Jacksonville

MOROCCO

Damascus Baghdad Amman Al Basrah JORDAN

IRAQ

Qom Kermanshah Ahva z

Kabul

Pesha war

AFGHANISTAN Islamabad
Kandaha r Lahore Faisala d ba Multa n Quetta

Line of Actual Control

CHINA
IM

Zibo Jinan Qingdao

Zhengzhou Xi'an

Yellow Sea

Tokyo
Yokohama

Hiroshima

Osaka

PACIFIC OCEAN
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IRAN

New Delhi

LA

(highest point in Asia and the world, 8850 m)

Mt. Everest

Chengdu

YA

Fukuoka Nanjing Nantong Hefei Shanghai Wuhan Hangzhou Ningbo East China Nanchang Changsha Sea

NA M HO - S P O PAN) JA TO
(

Midway Islands Minami-tori-shima

(JAPAN) (U.S.)

Tropic of Cancer (2327')

Taiwan Kaohsiung

OMAN

Na gpur

INDIA
Pune

BURMA
Nay Pyi Taw

Hanoi

LAOS
Chiang Vientiane Mai

Luzon Strait

Philippine

Wake Island
(U.S.)

Hainan Dao

Northern Mariana Islands

PH PHIL
P IPPI
E NE

FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA

Melekeok

MARSHALL ISLANDS
Majuro

SOUTH SUDAN

ETHIOPIA SOMALIA
MALDIVES
Mogadishu

Laccadive Sea Male

Colombo SRI LANKA

NICOBAR ISLANDS (INDIA)

Zamboanga Bandar Seri Begawan BRUNEI

Davao
T TRE

Palikir

PALAU

N NC

Kiritimati (Christmas Island) (KIRIBATI) 0 Jarvis Island

(U.S.)

Cali

COLOMBIA
(BRAZIL)

Medan

Yaound UGANDA Libreville

Gulf of Guinea

Equator
GALAPAGOS ISLANDS
(ECUADOR)

Quito

Equator

SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE So Tom

ECUADOR
Guayaquil Iquitos Manaus

Belm So Lus Fortaleza Teresina

ARQUIPLAGO DE FERNANDO DE NORONHA

(BRAZIL)

Annobon
(EQUA. GUI.)

REP. OF THE GABON CONGO

Brazzaville

Kisangani

Kampala

Kuala Lumpur M A L A Singapore

SINGAPORE Padang Palembang

H H

Celebes Sea

Tarawa

Howland Island
(U.S.)

KENYA
Nairobi
Kilimanjaro (highest point in Africa, 5895 m)

Pekanbaru

Equator
Pontianak Samarinda Banjarmasin Jayapura Yaren NAURU District

Baker Island (U.S.)

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC

RWANDA Kigali

Bujumbura

Lake Victoria

K I R I B A T I

Pointe-Noire Natal
ANGOLA
(Cabinda)

Kinshasa

OF THE CONGO
Mbuji-Mayi

BURUNDI
Dodoma

Mombasa

Victoria

British Indian Ocean Territory

(U.K.)

TanjungkarangTelukbetung

N
Jakarta

Java Sea

O
Makassar

E
Banda Sea
Dili

I
Arafura Sea

K I R I B A T I
LES MARQUISES (Fr. Poly.)

Joo Pessoa Prto Velho Recife

Trujillo

Ascension Luanda

Lake Tanganyika

TANZANIA
Lake Nyasa Lilongwe
MALAWI Blantyre

Dar es Salaam

Bandung

PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Port Moresby
t Grea

SEYCHELLES
DI MID MID - IND
Glorioso Islands
Moroni
(FRANCE)

RIDG

PERU
D
E
Cusco

BRAZIL
Braslia
Goinia Uberlndia Campo Grande Belo Horizonte Vitria Campinas So Paulo Rio de Janeiro Santos

Diego Garcia

Macei Lubumbashi Benguela Salvador

Semarang Surabaya Malang JA Denpasar V

SOLOMON ISLANDS
Honiara

P PE

R RU

Funafuti

CH - C
L ILE

Lima

N
TR

Christmas Island
(AUSTL.)

ANGOLA

Ndola

COMOROS
Mayotte
(administered by FRANCE, claimed by COMOROS)

Cook Islands
(N.Z.)

TYEA

(Fr. Poly.)

(BRAZIL)

(BRAZIL)

(FRANCE)

Tropic of Capricorn
LES TUBUAI
(Fr. Poly.)

(2327')
Antofagasta

PARAGUAY
Asuncin
San Miguel de Tucumn

Walvis Bay

Windhoek
DESERT

KALAHARI DESERT

Europa Island
(FRANCE)

Reunion
(FRANCE)

TONGA

Tropic of Capricorn (2327')

Alice Springs

Noumea

Adamstown

Gaborone Pretoria Maputo

Johannesburg Mbabane

Pitcairn Islands (U.K.) Easter Island (CHILE)

Isla Sala y Gmez (CHILE)

Isla San Felx (CHILE) Isla San Ambrosio (CHILE)

Curitiba Joinville Florianpolis Prto Alegre

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Valparaiso

ARCHIPILAGO JUAN FERNNDEZ (CHILE)

Santiago
Concepcin

Buenos Aires
La Plata

Montevideo

Port Elizabeth

Adelaide

Canberra

ARGENTINA
Baha Blanca Mar del Plata

(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)

le Amsterdam

TRISTAN DA CUNHA le Saint-Paul

(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)

Great Australian Bight

Melbourne

Mount Kosciuszko (highest point in Australia, 2229 m)

Auckland

SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN

Puerto Montt

Gough Island

Tasmania

Tasman Sea

NEW ZEALAND
Wellington

PATAGONIA

French Southern and Antarctic Lands

(FRANCE)

Hobart Christchurch

Comodoro Rivadavia

CHATHAM ISLANDS (N.Z.) Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) (administered by U.K., claimed by ARGENTINA) PRINCE EDWARD ISLANDS (SOUTH AFRICA) LES CROZET (Fr. S. and Ant. Lands) LES KERGUELEN (Fr. S. and Ant. Lands) Bouvet Island (NORWAY) Heard Island and McDonald Islands (AUSTL.) Macquarie Island
(AUSTL.)

Laguna del Carbn (lowest point in South America and the Western Hemisphere, -105 m)

AUCKLAND ISLANDS (N.Z.)

SNARES ISLANDS (N.Z.)

BOUNTY ISLANDS (N.Z.) ANTIPODES ISLANDS (N.Z.)

Stanley
Punta Arenas

Campbell Island (N.Z.)

Scotia Sea Drake Passage

South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands (administered by U.K., claimed by ARGENTINA) SOUTH ORKNEY ISLANDS
South Sandwich Trench (deepest point of the Southern Ocean, -8325 m)

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60

Antarctic Circle (6633')

SOUTHERN OCEAN
Bellingshausen Sea Amundsen Sea

SOUTHERN OCEAN
Amery Ice Shelf

SOUTHERN OCEAN
Antarctic Circle (6633')

Weddell Sea

Ross Sea
Ross Ice Shelf
150
120
+ Vinson Massif (highest point in Antarctica, 4897 m)

Ronne Ice Shelf

Antarctica
Twenty-one of 28 Antarctic consultative countries 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 countries.
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Ross Sea

Mendoza

Rosario

Cape Town

(AUSTL.)

URUGUAY

Newcastle Sydney Wollongong

CHILE

Cerro Aconcagua (highest point Crdoba in South America, 6962 m)

SOUTH AFRICA

Maseru

Durban Perth

GREAT VICTORIA DESERT

(AUSTL.)

EN

(U.K.)

LESOTHO SWAZILAND

Lake Eyre (lowest point in Australia, -15 m)

Brisbane

Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha

Norfolk Island

A U S T R A L I A
Lord Howe Island

SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN

D

KERMADEC ISLANDS (N.Z.)

E
C

30

Ross Ice Shelf

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TO NG

(FRANCE)

Trindade

BOTSWANA

Bulawayo

Bassas da India

NINE

NAMIBIA

MADAGASCAR

MAURITIUS

Nuku'alofa

TR E

F r e n c h

P o l y n e s i a

Martin Vaz

ZIMBABWE

OCEAN
M I D - AT ID LA NTIC

Beira

Mozambique Channel

SaintDenis

Port Louis

(AUSTL.)

New Caledonia (FRANCE)

NC H

Niue (N.Z.)

SOCIETY ISLANDS

Papeete

ARCHIPEL DES TUAMOTU (Fr. Poly.)

Arequipa

BOLIVIA
La Paz
A IPL ALT

Saint Helena

(FRANCE) Juan de Nova Island (FR.)

ST

Lago Titicaca

SOUTH ATLANTIC

ZAMBIA
Namibe

Lusaka Harare
NA
M

Tromelin Island

INDIAN OCEAN
A EA

Cocos (Keeling) Islands

(AUSTL.)

(deepest point of the Indian Ocean, -7258 m)

TRE

NCH
Ashmore and Cartier Islands
(AUSTL.)

TIMOR-LESTE Kupang

TUVALU

Tokelau (N.Z.) Wallis and SAMOA Futuna Apia Mata-Utu Pago Pago (FRANCE) American Samoa
(U.S.)

Timor Sea

Darwin Gulf of Carpentaria

Coral Sea
Re ef

S S

E EN

Barrier

Cochabamba Santa Cruz Sucre

VANUATU
Port-Vila

FIJI
Suva

N AN

MOZAMBIQUE

Cairns

Antananarivo

Coral Sea Islands

ATAC
AMA

OC

NO

IB

N N

DESERT

R R

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