Physical Map of the World, June 2009

AUSTRALIA

Independent state

Bermuda

Dependency or area of special sovereignty

Island / island group

150

Capital

60

90

120

Ellesmere
Island

QUEEN ELIZABETH

Beaufort Sea

Greenland Sea

ISLANDS

Banks
Island

Resolute

Barrow

Victoria
Island

Norwegian
Sea

(NORWAY)

(U.S.)

(ECUADOR)

ECUADOR
Guayaquil

Belm
So Lus

Manaus

Iquitos

Fortaleza

REP. OF
THE
GABON
CONGO

Annobon

Brazzaville

RU

(St. Helena)

ILE

Buenos Aires
La Plata

Concepcin

PATAGONIA

OCEAN

INS

MAURITIUS

Reunion
(FRANCE)

(FRANCE)

Gaborone
Pretoria Maputo
Johannesburg

(U.K.)

Mbabane

Maseru

IS
L A N
D S
)

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

Timor
Sea

Ashmore and
Cartier Islands

PAPUA
NEW GUINEA

Arafura
Sea

Darwin

(AUSTL.)

Gulf of
Carpentaria

Coral
Sea
Re
ef

(U.S.)

Port-Vila

Suva

(AUSTL.)

New
Caledonia
(FRANCE)

Nuku'Alofa

TONGA

Noumea

Tropic of Capricorn (2327')

Alice Springs

A U S T R A L I A

Port
Elizabeth

Adelaide

(AUSTL.)

(AUSTL.)

Tasman Sea

Tasmania

French Southern and Antarctic Lands

30

NEW
ZEALAND

le Saint-Paul

Gough Island

KERMADEC
ISLANDS
(N.Z.)

Auckland

Melbourne

(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)

OCEAN

Lord Howe
Island

Newcastle
Sydney
Wollongong

Mount Kosciuszko
(highest point in
Australia, 2229 m)

Great Australian
Bight

le Amsterdam

Canberra

SOUTH
PACIFIC

Norfolk
Island

Brisbane

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

Perth

Wellington

Hobart

(FRANCE)

Christchurch

CHATHAM ISLANDS
(N.Z.)
LES CROZET
(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)

PRINCE EDWARD
ISLANDS
(SOUTH AFRICA)

Falkland Islands
(Islas Malvinas)
(administered by U.K.,
claimed by ARGENTINA)

Heard Island and

McDonald Islands
(AUSTL.)

Bouvet Island
(NORWAY)

Scotia Sea
Drake
Passage

AUCKLAND
ISLANDS
(N.Z.)

LES KERGUELEN
(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)

Stanley

60

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

FIJI

VANUATU

Coral Sea
Islands

Comodoro
Rivadavia

Laguna del Carbn

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

Funafuti

TUVALU

Honiara

Cairns

Durban

(St. Helena)

K I R I B A T I

SOLOMON
ISLANDS

Port
Moresby

Cape Town

Punta Arenas

Antarctic Circle (6633')

GREAT VICTORIA
DESERT

TRISTAN DA CUNHA (St. Helena)

Mar del Plata

Banda Sea

NCH

LESOTHO SWAZILAND

SOUTH
AFRICA

GE
RID

PACIFIC

Baha Blanca

Port Louis

Cocos
(Keeling) Islands

TRE

(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)

Puerto Montt

Montevideo

ARGENTINA

ANDE

SOUTH

Santiago

URUGUAY

Rosario

SaintDenis

OCEAN

(AUSTL.)

ARCHIPILAGO
JUAN FERNNDEZ
(CHILE)

Mendoza

MADAGASCAR

Europa
Island

KALAHARI
DESERT

E
Dili

Valparaiso

(FRANCE)

TIMOR-LESTE
Kupang

ID

CHILE

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

Bassas
da India

O
Makassar

Prto
Alegre

30

St. Helena

Mozambique
Channel

Beira

BOTSWANA

Antananarivo

Christmas Island

Jayapura

(AUSTL.)

Joinville

Juan de Nova
Island (FR.)

INDIAN

EA

Santos

Florianpolis

Windhoek

(FRANCE)

MOZAMBIQUE

Bulawayo

Tromelin Island

OC

Easter Island
(CHILE)

Walvis Bay

Curitiba

San Miguel
de Tucumn

OCEAN

(administered by FRANCE,
claimed by COMOROS)

AN

Isla Sala y Gmez

(CHILE)

ZIMBABWE
NAMIBIA

DESERT

Pitcairn Islands
(U.K.)

So Paulo

Trindade
(BRAZIL)

Rio de
Janeiro

Campinas

Asuncin

(BRAZIL)

Harare

IB

Antofagasta

Isla San Felx

(CHILE)
Isla San Ambrosio
(CHILE)

Martin Vaz

M I D - AT
LA NTIC

Adamstown

(Fr. Poly.)

Belo
Horizonte
Vitria

PARAGUAY

DESERT

LES TUBUAI

(2327')

ATLANTIC

Tropic of Capricorn

AMA

(FRANCE)

Campo
Grande

(St. Helena)

Mayotte

MALAWI
Blantyre

Lusaka

NA

P o l y n e s i a

Uberlndia

NO

ATAC

F r e n c h

Goinia

Cochabamba
Santa
Cruz
Sucre

A
IPL
ALT

(Fr. Poly.)

La Paz

Namibe

Java Sea

(U.S.)

Baker Island (U.S.)

Yaren NAURU
District

Barrier

Niue
(N.Z.)

BOLIVIA

Arequipa

ARCHIPEL DES TUAMOTU

(Fr. Poly.)

Papeete

St. Helena

(FRANCE)

COMOROS

ZAMBIA

SOUTH

Brasilia

Moroni

Lilongwe

N
Jakarta

Howland Island

Tarawa

Equator

Semarang
Surabaya
Malang
JA
Denpasar
V

Diego
Garcia

Glorioso Islands

Ndola

Salvador

Lago
Titicaca

EN

SOCIETY
ISLANDS

ANGOLA

Celebes Sea

t
Grea

E
Cusco

NTA

Lubumbashi
Benguela

TR

(N.Z.)

Lake
Nyasa

Macei

PALAU

Bandung

SEYCHELLES

Majuro

Palikir

Banjarmasin

TanjungkarangTelukbetung

(U.K.)

Melekeok

Pontianak Samarinda

British Indian
Ocean Territory

I
MID - IND

H
- C

BRAZIL

Victoria

Luanda

Recife

Prto Velho

PERU

Palembang

Dar es Salaam

TANZANIA

MARSHALL
ISLANDS

FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA

Davao

Bandar Seri
Begawan
BRUNEI

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

SINGAPORE

Padang

Mombasa

Dodoma

Lake
Tanganyika

Pekanbaru

Mt. Kilimanjaro
(highest point in Africa, 5895 m)

BURUNDI

Mbuji-Mayi

Ascension

Joo Pessoa

Trujillo

Lima
Cook Islands

OF THE CONGO

Kinshasa

ANGOLA

Lake
Victoria

Bujumbura

SPRATLY
ISLANDS

Kuala
Lumpur
M A L A
Singapore

Mogadishu
Nairobi

RWANDA Kigali

Cebu

Zamboanga

Medan

MALDIVES

(U.S.)

Ho Chi Minh
City

NICOBAR
ISLANDS
(INDIA)

KENYA

DEMOCRATIC
REPUBLIC

Pointe-Noire

Kampala

Kisangani

Libreville

(Cabinda)

PE

LES MARQUISES
(Fr. Poly.)

UGANDA

(EQUA. GUI.)

Natal

SOMALIA

Colombo
SRI
LANKA

Male

Yaounde

(BRAZIL)

Teresina

K I R I B A T I

Malabo

Madurai

Laccadive
Sea

Douala

SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE

Sao Tome

ARQUIPLAGO DE
FERNANDO DE NORONHA

Cochin

Phnom
Penh
Gulf of
Thailand

Andaman
Sea

NC
H

GALAPAGOS
ISLANDS

Juba

Coimbatore

Hagta
Guam

PHILIPPINES

TR
E

Jarvis
Island

(INDIA)

ETHIOPIA

Gulf of Guinea

Equator

Hargeysa

EY
LL

Calicut

South China
Sea

CAMBODIA

(BRAZIL)

Quito

(YEMEN)

ANDAMAN
ISLANDS
(INDIA)

TO
NG

Equator

Socotra

Chennai

Saipan

EQUATORIAL GUINEA
PENEDOS DE
SO PEDRO E SO PAULO

DJIBOUTI
Djibouti

Arabian
Sea LAKSHADWEEP

Gulf of Aden

Bangkok

Manila

(U.S.)

COLOMBIA

Cali

Kiritimati
(Christmas Island)
(KIRIBATI)

Addis
Ababa

Aden

(U.S.)

VIETNAM

Wake Island

Bogota

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

Bengal

THAILAND

Sea

PARACEL
ISLANDS

Da Nang

NC

Isla de
Malpelo
(COLOMBIA)

Georgetown
Paramaribo
GUYANA
French Guiana
(FRANCE)
SURINAME Cayenne

VENEZUELA

Medelln

Palmyra Atoll (U.S.)

Ciudad
Guayana

Mekele

Bengaluru
(Bangalore)

Rangoon

Northern
Mariana
Islands

TRE

Isla del Coco

(COSTA RICA)

PANAMA

Kingman Reef (U.S.)

Valencia

TRINIDAD AND
TOBAGO

Bay of

Sanaa

SUDAN

Port-of-Spain

Asmara

Kassala

Khartoum

Vishakhapatnam

Vijayawada

YEMEN

Philippine

Hainan
Dao

NE

(FRANCE)

Caracas

Clipperton Island

ST. VINCENT AND

THE GRENADINES
BARBADOS
Neth. Antilles
(NETH.)
GRENADA

Maracaibo

CHAD

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

ERITREA

Luzon
Strait

IPPI

Barranquilla
Cartagena
San Jos
Coln
COSTA
Panama
Ccuta
RICA

Omdurman

Chiang Vientiane
Mai

Taiwan
Kao-hsiung

PHIL

Managua

CAPE VERDE

DOMINICA
Martinique (FR.)
ST. LUCIA

(U.K.)

Hyderabad

NIGER

Gulf of
Tonkin

Tropic of Cancer (2327')

EN

Aruba
(NETH.)

NICARAGUA

EL SALVADOR

MALI
Tombouctou

Nay Pyi
Taw

Pune

LAOS

(U.S.)

(JAPAN)

Caribbean Sea

Tegucigalpa

Mumbai

Nouakchott

BURMA

INDIA

Marcus Island

Guatemala
San Salvador

HONDURAS

OMAN

Guangzhou
Nanning
Hong Kong
Zhanjiang Macau S.A.R.
S.A.R.
Haiphong

GUATEMALA

(U.S.)

MAURITANIA

Guadeloupe (FR.)

(U.S.)
Montserrat

(U.S.)

' AL

B
RU

Port Sudan

Hanoi

Belmopan

Mandalay

BELIZE

Oaxaca
Acapulco

ST. KITTS AND NEVIS

ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA

HAITI Santo
Puerto
Navassa
Domingo Rico
Island

Xiamen

Midway
Islands

JAMAICA
Kingston

Taipei

Shantou

Jamshedpur
Khulna
Kolkata Chittagong

Nagpur

Okinawa

Fuzhou

Johnston Atoll

Puebla

Santiago San Juan

Prince

BANGLADESH
Dhaka

Ahmadabad Bhopal
Surat

Guiyang
Kunming

ISLAS
REVILLAGIGEDO
(MEXICO)

(U.K.)

Thimphu
Patna

30

Toluca

Chongqing

Cayman Is.

Chengdu

Lhasa
BHUTAN

Yokohama

saka
O

Cancn

YA

Karachi
Indore

LI
HA

LA

Kanpur Lucknow

Hyderabad

ARABIA

Red Jiddah
Sea Mecca

Tokyo

Nagoya
Hiroshima

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

Mt. Everest

(highest point in Asia

and the world, 8850 m)

NEPAL
Kathmandu

Agra
Jaipur

Xi'an

Pusan

NC

Mrida

Mexico

U.S.

Turks and
Milwaukee Deep
Caicos Islands (deepest point of the
(U.K.)
Atlantic Ocean, -8605 m)
British Virgin
DOMINICAN
Islands
REPUBLIC
(U.K.)
Port-auAnguilla (U.K.)

CUBA

IM

Yellow
Sea

Zhengzhou

PACIFIC
OCEAN

JAPAN

Seoul
SOUTH
KOREA

ANA TRE

Guadalajara

Honolulu

Len

Medina

Aswan

CHINA

Ludhiana

New
Delhi

PAKISTAN

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

Lanzhou

RI

San Luis
Potos

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS

Havana

Dalian
Yantai

Zibo
Jinan
Qingdao

NORTH

Sea of
Japan

MEXICO

Tropic of Cancer (2327')

Zahedan

Lahore
Faisalabad
Multan
Quetta

SAUDI

EGYPT

Western
Sahara

z
Shira

Tianjin
Shijiazhuang
Taiyuan

Gulf of Mexico

THE
Nassau
BAHAMAS

M I
D AT
L A

Matamoros

Miami

Line of
Actual
Control

Occupied by the SOVIET UNION in 1945,

administered by RUSSIA, claimed by JAPAN

Sapporo

TO

Monterrey
Torren

Laayoune

Kandahar

IRAN

KUWAIT
Kuwait

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

Peshawar

AFGHANISTAN Islamabad

Esfahan
Ahvaz

1972
Line of Control

Kabul

Herat

NORTH KOREA
Pyongyang

Datong

Indian
claim

Vladivostok

Shenyang

DESERT

Dushanbe
TAJIKISTAN

Jilin

Beijing

TAKLA MAKAN

Kashi

Changchun

AN

LIBYA

Tampa

Jerusalem

Al Jizah

ALGERIA

IRAQ

Damascus
Baghdad
Amman
Al Basrah
JORDAN

Cairo

CANARY ISLANDS
(SP.)

Qom
Kermanshah

DE

BI

Baotou

Mashhad

Tehran

Arbil

GO

T
SER

Orlando

Aleppo

KURIL
ISLANDS
Harbin

rmqi

KYRGYZSTAN

UZBEKISTAN

Khabarovsk

Ulaanbaatar

S.

Bishkek

Tashkent

TURKMENISTAN
Ashgabat

Tabriz

SYRIA

ISRAEL

Alexandria

(lowest point in
Europe, -28 m)

Mosul

Tel Aviv-Yafo
Banghazi

MOROCCO

Jacksonville

San
Antonio

Chihuahua

Tripoli

Marrakech

Shymkent

AZERBAIJAN

Yerevan

MONGOLIA

Almaty

Caspian
Sea

S.

Aral
Sea

Baku

Gaziantep

CYPRUS Beirut
LEBANON

(GR.)

S M
T

ARMENIA

Nicosia
Crete

Lake Balkhash

Aqta
(Aktau)

Tbilisi

URKEY

S
ND
ISLA

HO
- S
P O PAN)
JA

New
Houston Orleans

Austin

Valletta

Mediterranean Sea

Fs

GEORGIA

Adana

LT

AL
EUT
IAN

Ciudad
Juarez

Casablanca

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

Ankara

Sakhalin

AP

(U.K.)

Tunis
TUNISIA

(SP.)

Atyra

Astrakhan'

Black Sea

(IT.)

MALTA

Constantine

Oran

Athens

U.S.

PetropavlovskKamchatskiy

Chita

Bermuda

Dallas
El Paso

Palermo

Sicily

Irkutsk

Astana

KAZAKHSTAN

Rostov

Sea of
Okhotsk

Barnaul

Volgograd

Sea of
Azov

Bursa
.
T
Izmir
Konya

Lake
Baikal

Novosibirsk

Omsk

Orenburg

Saratov

Istanbul

GREECE

(IT.)

Algiers

Gibraltar (U.K.)
Melilla

Rabat

MADEIRA
ISLANDS
(PORT.)

Sardinia

BALEARIC
ISLANDS
(SP.)

Ufa

Krasnoyarsk

NA

San Diego
Tijuana Mexicali

30

OCEAN

Atlanta

Phoenix

Sevilla
Mlaga
Ceuta (SP.)

Valencia

60

(J

Oklahoma City

Lisbon

AZORES
(PORT.)

ATLANTIC

SPAIN

Naples

Yakutsk

Las Vegas
Los Angeles

UKRAINE

MONT.
Skopje
Tirana
MACEDONIA
ALB.

Rome

CITY

Barcelona

Madrid

PORTUGAL

NORTH

STATES

AUSTRIA

Provideniya

Bering Sea
Tomsk

Qaraghandy
(Karaganda)

Kharkiv
Donets'k
MOLDOVA
Chisinau
Odesa

SLOVAKIA

Bratislava
Budapest

Vienna

LIECH.

(FR.)

Porto

OCEAN

(FRANCE)

Halifax

Lake Ontario

CZECH REP.

Munich

Anadyr'

Tyumen'
Yekaterinburg
Chelyabinsk

Kyiv

L'viv

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

Paris

Krakw

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

St. Pierre
and Miquelon

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 DC
H
AC
L
A
P
Norfolk
AP
Nashville
Charlotte

Kansas City

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

FRANCE

Montral

Prague

Magadan

Izhevsk

Samara
Voronezh

Homyel

POLAND

GERMANY

R U S S I A

Kazan'

Ul'yanovsk

Minsk

Ldz

Cologne

Nizhniy
Novgorod

Moscow

BELARUS

Warsaw
.

RIDG

Sacramento
San Francisco

Qubec

Berlin

Amsterdam

BELGIUM LUX. Frankfurt

Luxembourg

Gulf of
St. Lawrence

UNITED
Denver

KINGDOM

Perm'

Yaroslavl'

LAT.

Hamburg

NETH.
London Brussels
Lille

Celtic
Sea

I C

PACIFIC

Toronto

Milwaukee

(U.K.)

Leeds

EST.

LITH.
Vilnius

RUSSIA

ST

NTAINS

Salt Lake City

Sea

TYEA

MOU

NORTH

Lake
Michigan

Minneapolis

Isle of
Man

Birmingham

Island of
Newfoundland

Lake
Huron
Ottawa

Baltic
Sea Riga

DENMARK
Copenhagen

NINE

Dublin
IRELAND

Winnipeg

Lake
Superior

UNITED

Belfast

Happy ValleyGoose Bay

Lake
Winnipeg

Saskatoon

North
Sea

Lake
Onega

Saint Petersburg

Tallinn

(U.K.)

Glasgow

Lake
Ladoga

Helsinki

Stockholm

Rockall

Labrador
Sea

FINLAND

Gulf
of
Bothnia

(DEN.)

Oslo
Kuujjuaq

Arkhangel'sk

OU

Reykjavk

URA

Edmonton

White Sea

SWEDEN

Faroe
Islands

NORWAY

ICELAND

Vancouver

Portland

Chukchi

Cherskiy

Davis
Strait

Denmark
Strait

Hudson
Bay

CANADA
Calgary

Seattle

Murmansk

VA

(Godthb)

Trshavn

Fort McMurray

CK

TIAN

RO

ALEU

Iqaluit

Churchill

DS
SLAN

Pevek
Noril'sk

60

Prince
George

Wrangel
Island

Tiksi

Jan Mayen

Nuuk

Great
Slave Lake

Whitehorse

Juneau

East Siberian Sea

(DENMARK)

Baffin
Island

Great
Bear Lake

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

Gulf of Alaska

Laptev Sea

Arctic Circle (6633')

Fairbanks

Anchorage

Barents Sea

NEW SIBERIAN ISLANDS

Kara Sea

RIF

U. S.

ARCTIC OCEAN

SEVERNAYA
ZEMLYA

NOVAYA
ZEMLYA

Svalbard
(NORWAY)

Arctic Circle (6633')

Nome

180

Longyearbyen

Greenland

Baffin
Bay

Pond Inlet

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

150

120

FRANZ JOSEF
LAND

ARCTIC OCEAN

Qaanaaq (Thule)

90

60

30

Alert

ARCTIC OCEAN

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

30

GRE
AT

Sicily / AZORES

Macquarie
Island

South Georgia and

South Sandwich Islands
(administered by U.K.,
claimed by ARGENTINA)
SOUTH ORKNEY
ISLANDS

SNARES ISLANDS
(N.Z.)

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

Campbell
Island
(N.Z.)

(AUSTL.)

60

South Sandwich Trench

(deepest point of the
Southern Ocean, -8325 m)

SOUTHERN OCEAN

SOUTHERN OCEAN

SOUTHERN OCEAN

Antarctic Circle (6633')

Amery Ice
Shelf

Bellingshausen Sea

Weddell Sea

Amundsen Sea
Ross Sea
+
Vinson Massif
(highest point in Antarctica, 4897 m)

Ross
Ice Shelf
150

120

Ronne Ice Shelf

90

Ross Sea

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.
60

30

30

Ross Ice Shelf

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