Physical Map of the World, April 2006 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
A
E
E
Buenos Aires Montevideo
ARGENTINA
MO
L
Reunion (FRANCE)
Europa Island (FRANCE)
Pretoria
R
E
Christmas Island
NC
(AUSTL.)
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
AFRICA
N
E
H
S
Arafura Sea
EAST TIMOR
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
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
(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
(U.S.)
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
K I R I B A T I
Alice Springs
G
Maputo
I
Howland Island (U.S.) Baker Island (U.S.) 0
Bismarck Sea
Banda Sea
Surabaya
Bandung
LESOTHO SOUTH Maseru
(U.K.)
Punta Arenas
Antarctic Circle (66°33')
OCEAN
T
O Java Sea
ID
URUGUAY
MADAGASCAR
Port Louis MAURITIUS
Gaborone Johannesburg
D
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 T LA NTIC
Easter Island (CHILE)
Isla San Ambrosio (CHILE)
Windhoek DESER
Isla San Felíx (CHILE)
Isla Sala y Gómez (CHILE)
PARAGUAY
OCEAN
MOZAMBIQUE
ZIMBABWE NAMIBIA
Tromelin Island
OC
(BRAZIL)
DESERT
Pitcairn Islands (U.K.)
(BRAZIL)
IB
Trindade
AMA
Adamstown
Martin Vaz
(administered by FRANCE, claimed by COMOROS)
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
(FRANCE)
Mayotte
Lilongwe
Namibe
St. Helena
Glorioso Islands
COMOROS
ZAMBIA
SOUTH
Brasília
Tarawa
Equator
Barrier
N
H
Lago Titicaca La Paz
S
Celebes Sea
A
t Grea
D
E
P o l y n e s i
Moroni
ANGOLA
N
TR
F r e n c h
Lake Nyasa
N Jakarta
A
SEYCHELLES Lubumbashi
Salvador
Diego Garcia
MID - INDIAN
L HI - C
(Fr. Poly.)
C
TANZANIA
(U.K.)
Dar es Salaam
Luanda
(St. Helena)
BRAZIL
Dodoma
I
British Indian Ocean Territory
V
RU
Ascension
Victoria
BURUNDI
Lake Tanganyika
PALAU
Yaren NAURU District
Mt. Kilimanjaro (highest point in Africa, 5895 m)
JA
PE
SOCIETY ISLANDS
Papeete
TAINS
OF THE CONGO
Kinshasa
(Cabinda)
Lima Cook Islands
UN
REPUBLIC ANGOLA
PERU
Lake Victoria Bujumbura
Brazzaville
I
Majuro
Palikir
Nairobi
RWANDA Kigali
(EQUA. GUI.)
(BRAZIL)
Fortaleza
ÎLES MARQUISES (Fr. Poly.)
DEMOCRATIC
S
Koror
TR EN CH
Annobon
Mogadishu
KENYA
BRUNEI
MARSHALL ISLANDS
FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA
TO NG A
Manaus
Libreville REP. OF THE GABON CONGO
São Tome
Medan
MALDIVES
Kuala Lumpur M A L A Y Singapore SINGAPORE
(U.S.) Challenger Deep (world's greatest ocean depth, -10924 m)
H
SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE
Equator
UGANDA Kampala
SPRATLY ISLANDS
Bandar Seri Begawan
Male
Guam
C
Guayaquil
Gulf of Guinea
ARQUIPÉLAGO DE FERNANDO DE NORONHA
Belém
Yaoundé
SOMALIA
Ho Chi Minh City
Phnom Penh Gulf of Thailand
NICOBAR ISLANDS (INDIA)
SRI LANKA
PHILIPPINES
N
Malabo
Bangui
Colombo
Saipan
Hagåtña
E
(ECUADOR)
ECUADOR
CAMEROON
Laccadive Sea
South China Sea
CAMBODIA
Andaman Sea
(INDIA)
EY LL
ETHIOPIA
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
ANDAMAN ISLANDS (INDIA)
Chennai (Madras) LAKSHADWEEP
Addis Ababa
Abuja
(YEMEN)
Bangkok
R
GALAPAGOS ISLANDS
(U.S.)
NIGERIA
Socotra
Djibouti
Bangalore
(U.S.)
Manila
VIETNAM
(U.S.)
T
Jarvis Island
N'Djamena
DJIBOUTI Gulf of Aden
PARACEL ISLANDS
THAILAND
Bengal
Arabian Sea
Sea
C
(BRAZIL)
Quito
Lac 'Assal (lowest point in Africa, -155 m)
Sanaa
Rangoon
Wake Island
E
PENEDOS DE SÃO PEDRO E SÃO PAULO
Asmara
SUDAN
Bay of
Northern Mariana Islands
D
Equator
Niamey
EQUATORIAL GUINEA
COLOMBIA
CHAD
- Hyderabad
Philippine
Hainan Dao
A
Cali
Bogotá
SENEGAL
Khartoum
Gulf of
Vientiane Tonkin
YEMEN
ERITREA
S.A.R.
LAOS
M
S D N
Isla de Malpelo
A
Palmyra Atoll (U.S.)
VENEZUELA
NIGER
Pyinmana
INDIA
Hong Kong Luzon Strait Macau S.A.R.
Hanoi
BURMA
OMAN
Tropic of Cancer (23°27')
Taiwan
Mandalay
CH TREN
Medellín
Isla del Coco (COSTA RICA)
Georgetown Paramaribo GUYANA French Guiana (FRANCE) SURINAME Cayenne
I AL
(JAPAN)
E PPIN
Kingman Reef (U.S.)
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
Caracas
KH
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
L B' A RU
Y
(U.S.)
Marcus Island
I PHIL
(FRANCE)
Martinique (FR.) ST. VINCENT AND ST. LUCIA THE GRENADINES BARBADOS Neth. Antilles (NETH.) GRENADA
ARABIA
Mumbai (Bombay)
Tombouctou
Dakar
(U.K.)
Jiddah
MAURITANIA
CAPE VERDE
DOMINICA
A
Kolkata Dhaka (Calcutta)
- Ahmadabad
K
R
Aruba (NETH.)
ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA Guadeloupe (FR.)
(U.S.) Montserrat
R
R
Muscat
U
Midway Islands
E
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
A
Taipei
BANGLADESH
¯ Karachi
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Okinawa
K
Kingston
Nouakchott
H
Thimphu
A TRE
JAMAICA
BELIZE Belmopan
ST. KITTS AND NEVIS
A
Abu Dhabi
30
IAN
Puebla
S
Kathmandu
Kanpur
OMAN
East China Sea
Chongqing
BHUTAN
AR
Prince
(U.K.)
E
ISLAS REVILLAGIGEDO (MEXICO)
Cayman Is.
QATAR
AS
M
I C T
N
M I D AT L A
Mexico
Manama Doha Riyadh
Red Sea
PAKISTAN
Persian Gulf
AY
NEPAL
Shanghai
Wuhan
O
Guadalajara
EGYPT
BAHRAIN
Chengdu
(highest point in Asia and the world, 8850 m)
Yokohama
OT
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS
SAUDI
Pusan
Mt. Everest
AL
Tokyo Osaka
N) PA
CUBA
ALGERIA
Western Sahara
IM
New Delhi
KUWAIT
LIBYA
H
Lahore
Kuwait
Laayoune (El Aaiún)
CHINA
Line of Actual Control
¯ Islamabad
IRAN
Yellow Sea
PACIFIC OCEAN
JAPAN
Seoul SOUTH KOREA
H - S
MEXICO
Honolulu
Baghdad
Dead Sea (lowest point in Asia, -408 m)
Indian claim
JORDAN
Cairo
CANARY ISLANDS (SP.)
AFGHANISTAN
Tianjin
(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
IRAQ
NORTH KOREA Japan Pyongyang
PO
Havana
ISRAEL
Alexandria
Damascus
Kabul
NORTH
Sea of
Beijing
M
Tropic of Cancer (23°27')
THE BAHAMAS Nassau
Miami
LEB.
Beirut
Shenyang
DESERT
1972 Line of Control
Mashhad
occupied by the SOVIET UNION in 1945, administered by RUSSIA, claimed by JAPAN
Sapporo
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
RT
SE
-
D
ARMENIA AZERBAIJAN
G
Bishkek KYRGYZSTAN
DE
I OB
-
I
Casablanca
UZBEKISTAN
(lowest point in Europe, -28 m)
KURIL ISLANDS
MONGOLIA Ürümqi
¯
Mediterranean Sea
(SP.)
MADEIRA ISLANDS (PORT.)
S.
Khabarovsk
Ulaanbaatar .
NA
OCEAN
(U.K.)
E
MT
Caspian Sea
Athens
Tunis MALTA Valletta TUNISIA
Melilla
S
IS L A N D S AN )
Bermuda
Tijuana
G
·Izmir
T
Aral Sea
Tbilisi
(IT.)
Algiers
Gibraltar(U.K.)
GEORGIA
Ankara
GREECE
(IT.)
Sicily Ceuta (SP.)
CAU C AS US
Istanbul
MACEDONIA
Tirana
Sardinia
BALEARIC ISLANDS (SP.)
Gora El'brus (highest point in Europe, 5633 m)
BULGARIA
Skopje
ALB.
M
U
Dallas
SPAIN
AZORES (PORT.)
ATLANTIC
Atlanta
Los Angeles
Barcelona
Rome
Y
Lake Balkhash
Black Sea
Sofia
A
KAZAKHSTAN
AP
NORTH
Washington, D.C.
SER.& MONT.
LT
Y
N
Kharkiv
Sea of Azov
(U.S.)
Sakhalin A
UKRAINE
ALEUTIAN ISLANDS Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy
Irkutsk
E
A HI AC
Madrid
VATICAN CITY
(FR.)
Sea of Okhotsk
Astana
SLOVAKIA
ITALY Sarajevo
Corsica
ANDORRA
PORTUGAL Lisbon
Samara
BELARUS Kiev
BOS. & HER.
MARINO
MONACO
Marseille
Lake Baikal
Novosibirsk
Omsk
(J
(FRANCE)
Lake Ontario
Moscow
Bratislava MOLDOVA SWITZ. AUSTRIA Budapest Chi sinau FRANCE S HUNGARY Ljubljana Bern LP ROMANIA Odesa SLOVENIA A CROATIA Belgrade Zagreb Milan SAN Bucharest
Bay of Biscay
St. Pierre and Miquelon
60
Bering Sea
Vienna
LIECH.
Yakutsk
RIDG
Denver
L PA AP
Montréal
Boston NS AI T N OU New York M Philadelphia
Lake Erie
STATES
Paris
A
AST
Detroit Chicago
BELGIUM LUX.
I
TYE
Toronto
Brussels
Guernsey (U.K.) Jersey (U.K.)
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Lake Michigan
UNITED
Celtic Sea
Berlin GERMANY Prague Luxembourg CZECH REP.
R
Yekaterinburg
Minsk
VA
Death Valley (lowest point in North America, -86 m)
Minneapolis
London
NETH.
POLAND Warsaw
Hamburg
Amsterdam
KINGDOM
E
NINE
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
St. 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
MOUNTAINS
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
A n t a r c t i c a*
Ronne Ice Shelf
Ross Ice Shelf 90
60
30
0
30
60
90
120
150
180
April 2006 *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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